Diet and nutrition

L.A. wants to clamp yearlong ban on fast food

In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food is the easiest cuisine to find — and that's a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol. The City Council was poised to vote Tuesday on a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a ...

Want guilt-free steak? Go against the grain

Environmentalists, E. coli sufferers, the Skinny Bitches — the list of beef haters grows longer every day. But let's face it: For a lot of people, biting into a thick, juicy steak ranks up there with make-up sex and cocktails on the company's dime as one of those priceless MasterCard moments. So wh...

FDA: Avoid jalapeños from Mexico, not U.S.

Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico seem to be implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, the government announced Friday in clearing the U.S. crop. The Food and Drug Administration urged consumers to avoid raw Mexican jalapenos and the serrano peppers often confused with them, or dishes ma...

From field to fork: Food-tracing system needed

When there's an urgent need to trace fruits and vegetables in a crisis like the salmonella outbreak, a lot of the pieces for a rapid-response system are in place. But nobody has quite figured out how to put them together to operate seamlessly in the vast American marketplace. The salmonella outbrea...

Pepper provided hot lead in hunt for salmonella

It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak. Not my tomatoes, protested the manager. He'd switched his supply to government-cleared fresh tomatoes and even canned ....

Mexico hot and bothered over jalapeño scare

Mexicans are jumping to the defense of the jalapeño pepper, maligned by U.S. health inspectors in a salmonella scare but loved by millions in its ancient home and growing in popularity north of the border. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it found a jalapeño pepper contaminate...

Internet, alcohol and sleep tied to girls' weight

Girls and young women who devote much time to the Internet, get too little sleep or regularly drink alcohol are more likely than their peers to put on excess weight, a new study suggests. The researchers, who followed more than 5,000 girls between 14 and 21 years old for 1 year, found that the more ...

Low-fat milk recommended for some toddlers

Once weaned from breast-milk or formula, some babies as young as 12 months of age should be given reduced-fat (2 percent) milk instead of whole milk, according to newly revised guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) this month. Specifically, the new recommendation states that ...

Food chains finally comply with NY calorie law

Several big fast food chains say they have finally begun obeying a new rule requiring some New York City restaurants to post calorie counts right on the menu. Burger King and McDonalds were among the chains that began changing their menu boards Friday after months of resistance. A city health depart...

Miss. tips the scale as most obese state

Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee lead the nation when it comes to obesity, a new government survey reported Thursday. More than 30 percent of adults in each of the states tipped the scales enough to ensure the South remains the nation's fattest region. Colorado was the least obese, with about 19 ...

FDA: OK to eat tomatoes again

It's OK to eat all kinds of tomatoes again, the U.S. government declared Thursday — lifting its salmonella warning on the summer favorites amid signs that the record outbreak, while not over, may finally be slowing. Hot peppers still get a caution: The people most at risk of salmonella — includi ...

Low-carb beats low-fat in diet duel

The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques. A bigger surprise: The low-carb diet improved c...

New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock

Although touted as "fat free," a slice of banana chocolate chip cake at Starbucks packs 390 calories, as New Yorkers discovered when the coffee chain began displaying calorie counts to comply with a new New York City law. Nora Cara was flabbergasted. She was about to order her usual morning ....

Top Ten Fad Diets

There is lot of false information on the subject of nutrition and diets. Fad diets may have opposite or undesirable effects compared to what they are claimed to achieve. Fad diets may make unrealistic claims. They may require you to restrict or avoid certain food items. They may promise fast almost ...

Vitamin C Overdose

Vitamin C, or ascorbic Acid, has many beneficial functions, from providing better iron absorption to efficient fighting against infection and its ability to preserve skin elasticity. In general, taking vitamins is very good for maintaining good health. Vitamin C is one of the most important and mos ...

Are you gonna eat that? How to curb food waste

Amidst growing concerns about rising food prices and global warming, many Americans are taking a closer look at what they do — and don’t — eat. Research in the U.S. estimates that at least 14 percent of purchased food ends up in the garbage. Some may view this as a call to return to the “clean ...

High Protein Diets - List of High Protein Foods

Scrambled eggs and sausages for breakfast, a couple of hamburgers without the buns for lunch, a generous strip of juicy steak for dinner, and maybe a protein shake or two, or a couple of protein bars in between. This kind of diet plan is what high protein diets are all about. In fact, in recent yea ...

Best Diet For Weight Loss - One Size Fits All

Just what is the best diet for weight loss? Chances are that the topic of diets has come up a time or two in the course of your daily conversations, usually in the form of you or one of your friends confessing those familiar words... "I need to go on a diet!" And even if you aren't trying to lose .....

Green Tea Diet - Imagine The Possibilities

Did you know that green tea has been in use for around 5,000 years? And not just as a drink -- but more about that in a moment. Way back when, (5,000 years ago) China and India may have been the first countries to harvest the tea and practice a form of green tea diet. Today, even in the western part...

Why Go on a Raw Food Diet

The momentum of the raw food diet is continually growing, at a very rapid pace. Many see it as outrageously extreme and far to limiting. In fact, this is the initial reaction of a lot of people that then go on to actually experiment with the raw food diet, and often sticking with it. The reasons tha...