• Book Review: Yoga and Optimum Health After 40

    Updated: 2012-07-31 05:12:44
    Yoga offers abundant physical, mental and spiritual benefits at all phases of life. As we age, yoga helps us age gracefully and maintain health, wellness, flexibility, balance and general physical and emotional wellness.

  • VIDEO: Doritos Commercial Spoof (Nutrition Surprise!)

    Updated: 2012-07-31 01:26:04
    Have you read the ingredients in that bag of Doritos?! Woah! We decided that the Doritos superbowl commercial needed some editing… See for yourself some of the absurd ingredients they are putting in your snacks! Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App Web App  RSS or  Email Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate

  • Perhaps it’s Time the USDA Stopped Giving Us Nutrition Advice?

    Updated: 2012-07-30 01:12:45
     New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! Something funny happened at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week. In an online newsletter to employees, published once a quarter, the advice dispensed was to embrace Meatless Mondays in USDA cafeterias: One simple way to reduce your [...]

  • Recovery Drinks: Gatorade or Chocolate Milk?

    Updated: 2012-07-29 01:43:24
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! You got up early, dragged yourself out of bed and spent 30, 45, or even 60 full minutes on the treadmill, swimming, or jogging outside before the heat gets too unbearable. Congrats! Now it’s recovery time, a scientific-come-marketing term that [...]

  • The Real Reason McDonald’s and Coke are Sponsoring the Olympics

    Updated: 2012-07-28 01:06:24
    New here?  Get our iPhone or Android App to scan & choose healthy groceries!  Or try Fooducate’s Online Nutrition App! McDonald’s and Coca Cola each spent $100M to become sponsors of the Olympics. That’s a lot of dough, both for the International Olympic Committee to receive, and for the brands to spend. The executives at the junk food companies must [...]

  • Clean Eating – What is It?

    Updated: 2012-07-27 14:29:41
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Are you familiar with the term Clean Eating? We’re beginning to hear more and more people talk about the clean eating movement and decided to take a minute to take a look. Clean eating is all about eating healthfully. Contrary to the standard American [...]

  • Just Gotta Have Another Big Mac And Coke Before Game Time… Said No Olympian Ever.

    Updated: 2012-07-26 07:45:52
      The Olympics are starting tomorrow and being sponsored by McDonald’s and Coca Cola. Do you think it’s right? Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android AppWeb App  RSS or  Email Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate

  • An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Two Apples…?

    Updated: 2012-07-26 01:37:10
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! The famous adage, coined by Benjamin Franklin, has done good for the apple industry. And science has long backed the health benefits of apple consumption. Aside from the nutrient rich profile (vitamins, minerals, fiber), apples help reduce inflammation and play a positive role in [...]

  • New Study: Soft Drink Consumption Leads to Flabby Muscles

    Updated: 2012-07-25 01:54:53
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Doing our part to help “promote” the healthy sponsors of the Olympics starting this weekend, we bring you the results of  an interesting study published by the European Journal of Nutrition. Researchers supplemented the diet of healthy, active men and women with a daily [...]

  • Iceberg Portraits

    Updated: 2012-07-24 07:21:20
    Laurie says: I recently saw this remarkable slide show of iceberg photos by Camille Seaman.  What fascinates me is that they are portraits of individual icebergs, not traditional landscapes. I’m particularly interested because of comments that photos I’ve done of inanimate objects look like portraits. At first I dismissed the idea but I’m beginning to [...]

  • Veggie Stress – 10 Tips to Win the Race Against the Rot Clock

    Updated: 2012-07-23 01:25:42
    New here?  Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App!  Or try Fooducate on the Web! Do you suffer from veggie stress? You know, veggies you bought at the grocer’s with every good intention to prepare and eat, yet somehow haven’t gotten to before they started to rot? Raise your hand if you’ve never had a vegetable or fruit rot [...]

  • Video Responses to Fat Hatred

    Updated: 2012-07-20 22:34:06
    Lynne Murray says: In recent years, as the drumbeat stirring up hatred of fat and fat people has got louder, I have heard some pretty horrifying stories from fat activists whose only crime has been to say, “Yes, I’m fat and it’s okay.” This simple sentiment seems to provoke a disproportionate amount of rage expressed [...]

  • An Antidote to Images of Headless Fat People

    Updated: 2012-07-08 01:27:08
    Lynne Murray says: Anyone who has ever ground their teeth at the “headless fat people” and other images of fat bodies designed to promote disgust (discussed recently by Debbie here) will be glad to hear of Stocky Photos, a new gallery of positive images of fat bodies. Linda Bacon, PhD., researcher, professor and advocate of [...]

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