The Food Environment Atlas tells you if you are in a food desert, or an oasis

Per­haps in the last year you’ve heard men­tion of the term “food desert” to describe an area with a dearth of gro­cery and fresh food options.  There are plenty of towns in the US that don’t have a gro­cery store, and […]

Science Says High-Fructose Corn Syrup Is Pretty Much The Worst Thing Ever

Science attempts to de-mystify orange drink

Sci­ence attempts to de-mystify orange drink

The title pretty much says it all.

In addi­tion to caus­ing sig­nif­i­cant weight gain in lab ani­mals, long-term con­sump­tion of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnor­mal increases in body fat, espe­cially in […]

Are energy-drinks really harshing your mellow?

asleepA study in extremes?  A mar­ket­ing fad-wagon?  A good idea?

Promis­ing a “vaca­tion in a bot­tle” or an “acupunc­ture ses­sion in every can,” mak­ers of anti-energy drinks, as they’re known, say that after bailouts, fore­clo­sures and Ponzi schemes, Amer­i­cans nowa­days would rather chill out than tweak out. To […]

Delicious innards!

IVU-Woman

This gor­geous ad is mak­ing my mouth water.  Not pos­i­tive but the body and cav­ity look CG, no?  Doesn’t look real, but the pro­duce, now that looks good!  .…OK, get­ting a lit­tle too excited about vegetables here.…

Veg­eta­bles are all your body needs”

Adver­tis­ing Agency: JWT Kuwait
Cre­ative Direc­tors: Alessan­dro Antonini, […]

Bioavailability: How to Get More Nutrients from Your Food | Wise Bread

I like this sim­ple post with nutri­tional advice for upping the bioavail­abil­ity of your comestibles.

Quick tips:

Phenol-rich bev­er­ages such as cof­fee or tea inhibit iron absorp­tion from oth­er­wise iron-replete foods like spinach, chard, or eggs (all break­fast sta­ples in my book).
Black pep­per is always deli­cious.  And turns out, it also improves […]

Whiskey elitists of the world unite. Then geek out.

The brown stuff get all whiskey2.0 on this social net­work­ing site called Whiskey con­nosr.  The tag cloud looks delicious.Screen shot 2009-09-26 at 6.58.25 PM

Con­nosr lets users cat­a­log, review, and rate whiskeys you own and have tried. You can share those reviews […]

How to peel a banana

O yeah, like this is wor­thy of a blog post?  Well, if you, like the fel­low in the video, have spent your entire life peel­ing bananas by yank­ing on the stem (“top”) you should watch this video.  The stem method, while mostly effec­tive, usu­ally results in a bit of banana-mush.  Align your­self with your primate […]