So you've mastered Angry Birds and you're bored with Words with Friends. Now what to do with that smartphone that's weighing you down? Use it to create a better world—through food. Whether it's avoiding pesticides or ridding your pantry of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), there's an app for any of us who want to vote with our forks for a better food system...
Just as a good marriage elevates each partner, certain foods are better — for health and taste — eaten together. Scientists are beginning to uncover food combinations that work synergistically to boost nutrient absorption and antioxidant potency beyond the beneficial effects of the foods when eaten alone...
It really is the magic number! A new Cornell University study finds that adults prefer three food items and three different colors on their plates compared to more or less of either category, reports the journal Acta Paediatrica. In the study, researchers presented a group of adults with photos of meals containing different combinations of foods—including up to six colors and seven foods...
Supersized portions and high-calorie dishes in restaurants are often blamed for contributing to America's obesity epidemic, and for good reason.
This year, the USDA began requiring nutrition labels on meat. But some of the language can still be confusing. This guide can help:
Some people cannot travel without Advil or a neck pillow. Dr. David M. Eisenberg, an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, feels incomplete without his beloved paring knife and eight-inch Wüsthof cleaver. He was wielding both with sweaty zeal the other day on the dais of the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, demonstrating a stir-fry with perfectly browned shiitake mushrooms...
You eat salad to be healthy, but calorie- and fat-laden salad dressings can actually sabotage your diet. In fact, a wedge of lettuce slathered in typical blue cheese dressing clocks in at 500 calories, more than a hot dog and an order of french fries.TODAY diet and nutrition expert Joy Bauer offers her tips and recipes for salad dressings that are yummy and still healthy...
