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Is Cheating Healthy?
The popular “4-hour Body” originator Tim Ferriss says that setting one day aside to totally indulge when you are dieting is the key to staying motivated and maintaining your metabolism. Is a “cheat day” necessary to achieve a healthy weight? Or does planning for a Saturday splurge just mean we’re… Read More
Blueberry Breakdown: Help Berries Help You!
It’s not just a Dr. Oz favorite food. It’s a superfruit people consume as part of favorite recipes or all by themselves the world over. That’s because of their unique taste, versatility, availability fresh or frozen, and big potential for health. Whenever we make an effort to get the most… Read More
It’s Maine Food Day – 10 Little Ways to Make a Big Impact
Happy Food Day! Maine’s governor has officially pronounced October 24, 2011 Maine Food Day, a day devoted to celebrating and fortifying the connection between food and the health and well-being of everyone in the state. Among the goals of this auspicious day are reducing obesity so members of the state… Read More
Should We Take Food Protests to the Streets?
Some call for a Wall Street-style takeover when it comes to food. Others say OWS’s anti-corporate sentiment encompasses the food movement already. by didbygraham In a piece called What If Food Activists Get Loud? the Lempert Report asserts that the protesters out to occupy Wall Street should serve as a model… Read More
School Lunch Gets Healthy
Local & National Programs Improve Nutrition on Cafeteria Trays School lunch — for many, the term conjures memories of tater tots, cartons of milk, and fatty, carb-heavy mystery foods that contribute to obesity and poor nutrition. But today, efforts are underway to undo the poor image of school lunches. The… Read More
Cancer Study Follow-Up: Report Brings Key Nutritional Messages to Light
Food as Medicine & Colorful Diet at the Heart of New Study, Says Nutrition Expert Susan Davis This week, Wild About Health shared a new study from researchers at the City of Hope in Los Angeles that showed the positive effect of blueberries on triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form… Read More
New Video! Exciting Study Ties Blueberries to Breast Cancer Prevention
There is no more exciting time in the world of blueberry research. The nutritional potential of blueberries, particularly wild blueberries, is high and building as we find out more and more about the natural disease preventing chemicals sheathed by that dark blue skin. Now, a new study conducted by researchers… Read More
Fall for Apples
Shine Up a Cortland, Grab a Macoun…This Favorite Fruit Has a Lot to Offer Kiwi, guava, cactus pears, acai…the longsuffering apple can get lost in the cornucopia of today’s stylish fruit choices. It’s easy to pick up a bag during apple-picking season, cook up a crisp, and forget this favorite… Read More
In the Heart of Harvest Country, Wild Blueberry Research Intensifies
Last month, Midcoast Maine was a hotbed of exciting, innovative research into some of the most urgent areas of health. Bar Harbor, Maine hosted the 14th annual Wild Blueberry Research Summit this August, an event devoted exclusively to continued research into the role of wild blueberries in critical areas of health. At… Read More
Walnuts: Cracking the Case of Heart Health
by GimmeFood 🙂 Nuts have always been part of our daily diet recommendations. But they are dogged by their dark side – one that likely developed as a result of their ubiquity as an over-indulged in, high-calorie snack. They can be found in the ingredient list of many processed foods, are… Read More
