Are you a grab-and-go snacker or lunch purchaser when away from home? A new study from the Harvard Medical School suggests that folks who eat less-healthy foods at work may make similar choices when eating elsewhere and that’s influencing their overall health and wellness picture…Read More →
I’ve mused previously on the tendency of restaurateurs and ‘trendsetters’ who, bereft of any real inspiration for The Next Big Meal idea, try something you’d never expect, just to be different and provocative and – well – just because they can. Now, they’re pushing Breakfast Salads and I just don’t know…Read More →
About a year ago, we reported that Eggs had been at least partly exonerated as ‘unhealthy’ due to their cholesterol content. Then, this past March, a new study by a different team of researchers showed that was not the case after all. Now, a new study suggests Eggs are okay in moderation…
Here’s a fun post for a sleepy Sunday in early summer. I’ve been researching foods whose names or common associations make them seem as though they’re something other than they really are, and the results are, to say the least, interesting. How may of these did you already know or suspect?Read More →
This past week has been a busy one for us here at Maggie J.’s FFB. It’s time for spring cleanup in the garden, and deciding what to plant. Oddly, this is a time when long hours setting the stage for the harvest later in the season makes it more likely that we’ll order something in for supper…Read More →
Dr. Obvious nearly choked on his own laughter when he called to tell me about a new study by researchers at Cambridge University that concluded kids who walk to school are less likely to be obese than those who travel by bus or car. But there are some interesting sidebars to the tale…Read More →
Sounds counter intuitive, but it’s true, according to a new study by researchers at York University in Toronto. ‘Clean’ eating can become an obsession that effects physical, mental and social health. Turns out a fixation on healthy eating can be as dangerous as a fixation on dieting…Read More →
I just read an opinion piece in this morning’s paper calling out Vegans and Vegetarians over their current mania for the new ‘faux Meats’ made from Vegetable Proteins, but made to look and taste like Meat. As writer L.D. Cross rightly points out, their behaviour is, well, just plain odd…Read More →