Eating for Health

How To Read Nutrition Facts Labels & Ingredient Lists

  Bonnie J. M. Swoger, a Science and Technology Librarian at New York, SUNY Geneseo, has written a great blog post on the Scientific American site titled But the Cheetos bag said they were healthy! Evaluating diet and food information sources. Swoger’s basic premise is that we are bombarded with nutritional and health ‘information’ from …

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Skinnygirl False All-Natural Advertising Lawsuit

TGI Fridays + Skinnygirl Cocktails = Unhealthy Squared

Two of America’s unhealthiest brands — TGI Fridays and Skinnygirl Vodka — have teamed up to give you the false impression that you’re eating and drinking well. The NY Daily News recently reported that Housewives of New York and beverage mogul Bethenny Frankel has teamed up with TGI Fridays to create a line of Skinnygirl Cocktails featuring her Bare …

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Top News From the Food Front: GMO Labeling Loss, Bee-tastrophe, Custody McFail, and BPA Badness

This week’s news features mega-GMO-developments, bee-tastrophe, equine death sentence commutation, and a parenting win transformed heartbreakingly into a McFail. BPA does more damage than you thought, and the FDA finally takes on trans fats — is it progress, or only ‘progress’? From the lighter side of the news world, a new study reveals that an ounce of nutritional education provides a pound of healthiness for poor families. Read on, for the week’s best news in food!

Are New Vitamin-Fortified Girl Scout Cookies Actually Nutritious?

It’s Girl Scout Cookie time and this year we have an ugh-inspiring new cookie to contend with.  A press release from ABC Cookie Bakers, part of Interbake Foods and baker of Mango Crèmes with NutriFusion, screams: NEW MANGO CREMES GIRL SCOUT COOKIE FEATURES VITAMIN ADDITIVES The release goes on to say: This year, consumers will …

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