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New York curbs salt in food: 5 easy ways you can cut back
Move over trans fats, there’s a new health villain in town: sodium.

Top 20 food trends for 2010
Last year’s food trend predictions were all tied to the struggling economy: cooking budget-friendly recipes at...

Would you want the government to ban “junk foods” aimed at kids?
At 19 months, my son Julian doesn’t know who Dora the Explorer or SpongeBob is, let alone request the yogurts...

Chocolate milk is "soda in drag"? Puh-lease!
The other night on my drive home, I heard something on National Public Radio that really got under my skin. Some...

How Safe Is Your Chicken? 3 Ways to Eat Safe
It feels like eating, or making choices about what to eat, is getting harder. Since I started reading books like...

Guess who likes vegetables more: boys or girls?
Even though my son is only 8 months old, I’m offering him a wide variety of foods and spices (curry!) with the...

Should you join the fish boycott?
What do I have in common with top chefs Alton Brown, Rick Bayless, John Ash and Barton Seaver? (Hint: it is not...

Should you stop drinking soda? A food expert weighs in
Wonder what it’s like to chat about food with award-winning author and food activist Michael Pollan? Thought-...

Host a potluck with a purpose
My husband laughed when I told him this, but when I “grow up” I want to be a school-lunch lady. Not the kind of school-...

New study says organic food is not healthier--is that really true?
Is organic food more nutritious than food produced via conventional methods? As a nutrition editor for EatingWell...

Should we ban GMOs?
Should the U.S. ban genetically modified organisms (GMOs)? When we posed this question in EatingWell Magazine (April...

How to eat to save our bees
What would you do if you were to find out that the single most important creature in our food system was in trouble?...

Why I love buffalo
I’m going on a buffalo hunt. No horses or bows and arrows involved. I’m just going to arm myself with the latest issue...

Are pistachios safe?
First it was tainted peanut butter. Now, we’re hearing that some pistachios may not be safe. On March 30, 2009, the FDA...

5 new ways to eat local
I’m so glad that spring is (finally!) here and my farmers’ market is back in the swing of things. I can get my favorite...

Is it safe to eat peanut butter?
Peanuts and peanut products, such as peanut butter, are just the latest items to be recalled because of Salmonella...