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You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition
As the new year begins, millions of people are vowing to shape up their eating habits. This usually involves dividing foods into moralistic categories: good/bad, healthy/unhealthy,...
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US government says widely used pesticide could harm honeybees
The US government has acknowledged for the first time that one of the world’s most widely used pesticides can be harmful to honeybees. The results of field trials, released Wednesday by the US...
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'Chefs With Issues' Hopes to Destigmatize Mental Health Issues in the...
"Most of us who live and operate in the culinary underworld are in some fundamental way dysfunctional," Anthony Bourdain wrote in 1999, in the New Yorker piece that would lead to his magnum opus...
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Human impact has pushed Earth into the anthropocene, scientists say
There is now compelling evidence to show that humanity’s impact on the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and wildlife has pushed the world into a new geological epoch, according to a group of scientists. The...
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When Teamwork Doesn’t Work for Women
Economics remains a stubbornly male-dominated profession, a fact that members of the profession have struggled to understand. After all, if the marketplace of ideas is meant to ensure that the best...
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Sustainable Food Trust
Simple arithmetic tells us that a few tweaks to farming could make a huge difference to Britain’s ability to cope with floods – and with the droughts we could be facing in a few months’ time. The...
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Scientists bust myth that our bodies have more bacteria than human cells
It's often said that the bacteria and other microbes in our body outnumber our own cells by about ten to one. That's a myth that should be forgotten, say researchers in Israel and Canada. The ratio...
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but he too is worried about losing access to public land
The Bundy brothers and the rest of the armed gang holed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon claim to represent ranchers. They don’t. Just ask my dad. I grew up as a Montana ranch kid,...
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Ugly Fruit Is Ripe For A Close-Up, As 'Shark Tank' Takes On Food Waste
Evan Lutz of Maryland-based Hungry Harvest makes his pitch to the Shark Tank investors on Friday night's episode. The company rescues ugly and surplus produce that might otherwise have landed in the...
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Here comes the sun: Indian consumers go solar as costs plunge
The price of solar energy has fallen by half over two years, with prices dropping from Rs 10-12 per unit to Rs 4.63 per unit in 2015, the price at which Sun Edison, a US company, offered to supply...
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A Start-Up That Aims to Bring Back the Farm-to-Vase Bouquet
Where Christina Stembel lives in California, she is surrounded by flower farmers, yet 80 percent of the flowers sold in the United States are imported. She is trying to help change that percentage with...
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Living on Earth: Debunking the Myths About Hunger
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States estimates that every day 800 million people do not get enough to eat. (Photo: USAID U.S. Agency for International Development, Flickr CC BY-NC...
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Scientists, Give Up Your Emails
IN recent months, the Obama administration has been locked in a battle with Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, who...
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Food stamps will soon require 20 hours of work or classes in NC
Feds are restoring it for 23 counties; legislature is adding the other 77 in July Opponent: ‘It’s part and parcel of a ripping away of the safety net’ Food stamp recipients in North Carolina soon will...
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Getting Ugly Produce on to Hungry People’s Plates
dumped an estimated $100 million worth of the fruit (or 143,000 bushels) in fields where they were left to rot, causing the nearby town to smell like rancid fruit for days. David Bobanick, Executive...
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Sugar tax should be set at 50%, say obesity experts
A sugar tax of 50 per cent is needed to drastically change drinking and eating habits, obesity experts have said. Health professionals on the National Obesity Forum said the 20 per cent rate...
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Will the new dietary guidelines make school food healthier?
Who decides what kids eat at school? The answer is complicated, but one big piece of the puzzle is the US dietary guidelines, the nutritional recommendations released by the federal government every...
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My Right to Die: Assisted Suicide, My Family, and Me
Every story has a beginning. This one starts in late 2001, when my father-in-law fractured three of his ribs. Harry was a retired physician, and after a thorough workup that he insisted on, it turned...
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Can chocolate milk speed concussion recovery? Experts cringe
Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of a public school system in rural Maryland, says he knows scientists might think he’s “damn nuts.” But he doesn’t care. He’s planning to buy $25,000 worth of a specific...
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New Republic Owner Chris Hughes Puts Magazine Up For Sale
The New Republic, the century-old magazine that was rocked a year ago by the mass exodus of its staff following an effort by its owner to make it more digitally focused, is being put up for sale. Chris...
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