Recently in the News Headlines that Mike trolls the media around the globe to find, I noticed one from London titled Fish Oil Taken By Mom-to-be Helps Baby.

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Today I spotted an interesting article by Tom Avril (Scripps-McClatchy News Service) titled in our local paper: Researcher counters meteor versus dinosaur theory of extinction.

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The front page article of the business section in today’s newspaper warmed my heart and got me to thinking that maybe, just maybe the tide will begin to turn on this epidemic of childhood obesity. The piece, by Gary Gentile, picked up in our local paper from the AP was titled: Read more »

Many thanks to blog reader, Amy, for alerting me to yet another reason the demand for almonds has gone up: the arrival of an unsweetened almond milk product line on store shelves that has apparantly been the new buzz on the Protein Power Discussion Forum of late.

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I dont’ know about you, but when the leaves begin to turn, the days shorten, and the evenings get a chill, my tastebuds long for something warm and savory. And nothing satisfies that longing quite like a steaming bowl of creamy soup.

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A few days ago, I saw an article by AP writer Candice Choi that was picked up in our local paper titled: Read more »

When our boys were kids in school, I spent my early mornings every Monday through Friday of the school year, toiling on the lunch sack assembly line. It’s a lonely and often thankless task to try to plan something that is not only nourishing and healthy for your kids, but something they’ll actually eat. In my experience, admittedly only an “n” of 3, the first directive is decidedly easier to manage than the second.

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In a blog a couple of days ago on the health benefits of cranberries I spoke of adding more of this antioxidant-filled, low-carb gem of a berry to the diet. I mentioned, as well, that for many people, the cranberry sadly makes only one or two appearances a year on the dinner table, perched atop the turkey and dressing on the holiday luncheon plate, usually in the form of jellied cranberry sauce (a concoctiion that I cannot abide, but, for reasons utterly unintelligible to me, my brother adores.)

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It’s not press-stopping news that foods contain antioxidants or that food-derived antioxidant compounds are beneficial to health and detrimental to disease. Gallons of ink (or more correctly in this ditgital age, lots of electrons) have been dispatched in recent years informing us of the salutory benefits of fresh fruits and veggies and extolling the particular virtues of eating broccoli, cabbage, red wine, coffee, tea, tomatoes, pomegranates, and even chocolate. Just let a health benefit be uncovered for a substance and an army of ad men comes out of the woodwork to spin the news to sell whatever it is. Comes now the cranberry.

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I clipped a good looking recipe for a Lavender Dressing out of my local paper the other day and as I was filing it away, I noticed a little blurb in the Food & News Notes with this headline: Read more »