Trans fat is akin to a carcinogen: the United States Academy of Sciences states that there is no safe level of trans fat intake--not even one or two grams per day. Many supermarket food manufacturers are taking strides to remove trans fat from their products due to the requirement to list trans fat amounts separately from the other fats on the ...

This is a strong argument on behalf of caloric labeling on fast foods, akin to what Subway does. I'd love to see a "500 Calories Here" with a giant skull and crossbones on top of a good ol' Mickey D's double cheeseburger.

If ever there was a videogame that should be classified as contraband, ‘Diner Dash’ for the PSP fits the bill. Akin to playing with a rubber band ball, Diner Dash is simultaneously so simple yet blissfully addictive for hours at a time. This addiction has now spanned 3 sequels and 6 platforms; that’s a whole lot of bad food service being bestowed u

Richard Cranium wrote about this about two months ago. The gist here is that honeybee colonies across the nation are dying mysteriously — tens of thousands of colonies. Honeybees are necessary to food production, so this is a big issue. Now comes word that it may be akin to a biblical plague!

The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known low-carbohydrate diet. It was adapted by Dr. Robert Atkins in the 1960s from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association and utilized to resolve his own overweight condition following medical school and graduate medical training. After successfully treating over ten thousand patients, he popularized the Atkins diet in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Atkins updated some of his ideas, but remained faithful to the original concepts.The Atkins franchise, a business formed to provide products to those individuals on the diet, has been highly successful due to the popularity of the diet, and is considered the iconic and driving entity of the larger "low-carb craze". However, various factors have led to its dwindling success and the company founded by Dr. Atkins in 1989, Atkins Nutritionals of Ronkonkoma, New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July of 2005, two years after the death of Dr. Atkins. The company re-emerged in January 2006, and the Atkins logo is still highly visible through licensed-proprietary branding for food products and related merchandise.