This is the first in a series of short articles intended to help you better understand your nutrition options.
By Donna Paquette
Today it seems we need to have a degree in nutrition in order to decode the content of a product. Does anyone control what’s placed on a label? Who decides the difference between whole and [...]

Cooked grains
have been
a food staple
for over
5000 years.

Whole grains or foods made from them contain all the essential parts and naturally-occurring nutrients of the entire grain seed. Their health effects have been evident for centuries. Indeed, when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, wrote “Let food by thy medicine and let medicine be thy food,” he was [...]

What to Eat makes an extrememly good case for buying locally and eating organically grown foods.

Are you concerned about where the food you’re putting on the table for your family comes from?
Do you wonder why - or how - a grocery store decides which of the 320,000-plus food items available in the US to [...]

New York Times writer Tara Parker-Pope poses an interesting question in her article, “Are Bad Times Healthy?”  She presents interesting data in response to her title question.
First the good news:

People tend to take care of themselves in down times.
They have more time and so pay more attention to their families, especially children.
More families cook at [...]