Happy Cinco de Mayo! If you’re celebrating Mexican-style today, don’t forget the peppers. Jalapeno, cayenne and habanero peppers don’t just spice up a meal; they also offer a number of health benefits. Capsaicin, the substance in hot peppers that causes your body to heat up, helps fight LDL, or bad cholesterol; has been shown to [...]
Square pizza may be one of the universal experiences of American childhood. In the 1980s, when I was in elementary school, square pizza was very much a fixture in school lunchrooms across the country. Apparently, it’s still around — a friend whose son just started kindergarten told me last week that he was excited about [...]
Whether you like President Obama’s plans for healthcare reform or not, who can argue with his idea to open a farmer’s market right outside the White House?
At yesterday’s National Health Care Forum, while responding to a question about how his family stays fit, Obama offered up this latest idea:
“So, you know, Michelle set [...]
If you’ve never picked okra, you’re not missing much. The funny-looking vegetable known as a chief ingredient in gumbo grows on a plant with leaves that are itchier than any I’ve ever encountered. Last night I picked a bucketful of okra while the kids played in the garden, and because I forgot to bring gloves [...]
So after paying double for apples for the past few years, was it really worth it? A new study just released in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals no difference in nutritional quality between organically-produced and conventionally-produced foods. The researchers studied 50 years worth of published food science articles and determined that the nutrient [...]
Ok, even those of us who grow a lot of our own food still go to the grocery store. The modern American family who grows or produces EVERYTHING it eats is rare, if it even exists at all. But if you’re like me, when you’re shopping for food, you want to make sure you’re buying [...]
While kids who help grow vegetables are generally more interested in eating them (according to several studies described here), it doesn’t always happen that way. Tonight at supper, for instance, my two-year-old ate only meat and didn’t touch his squash, okra or green beans. My four-year-old only ate his green beans because I made him [...]
