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What do we eat? New food map will tell us 20.5.2013 Minnesota Public Radio: Science
Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are trying to change that by creating a gargantuan map of what foods Americans are buying and eating.
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What do we eat? New food map will tell us 20.5.2013 Star Tribune: Latest
Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.
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What do we eat? New food map will tell us 19.5.2013 Yahoo: US National
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought. ...
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What do we eat? New food map will tell us 19.5.2013 AP Politics
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought....
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A Big Chill for French Cuisine 18.5.2013 Wall St. Journal: World
A steady increase in labor costs and food prices in France has fueled an unexpected phenomenon: Many restaurants can no longer afford to prepare meals from fresh ingredients in their own kitchens.
Farm Bill Fiasco: What Next for the Food Movement? 17.5.2013 Commondreams.org Views
Christopher Cook

Deciding how America will nourish itself and sustain its farms would seem a top policy priority— yet as the US Farm Bill demonstrates, sustainably grown, healthy food and livable incomes for farmers and workers remain an afterthought in a process controlled almost entirely by agribusiness and a handful of farm-state legislators. Despite strong public opinion supporting local food, farmer’s markets, organic agriculture, food workers’ rights and access to fresh produce, agribusiness and commodity interests continue to dominate food and farming policy.

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Food Stamps Get Licked by Cuts 17.5.2013 American Prospect
This week, the Senate and House committees in charge of agriculture passed farm bills —mammoth bills that will last for five years if passed and signed—and sent them to their chamber floors. The bills handle farm policy, but the vast majority of their spending goes to a program that has proven a rich target for a Washington drunk on spending cuts—the food stamp program. The House bill would lower benefits across the board, cutting a fourth of the program’s $80 billion budget . The Senate bill would trim $4.4 billion from food stamps. Many of the cuts in both bills come from getting rid of a program that allowed states to streamline the ways they provide assistance to the poor. In true bureaucratic fashion, the program has an unwieldy name: “Categorical Eligibility.” Conservative lawmakers call it “automatic eligibility” to make it sound as though people who aren’t poor are finding food stamp cards in their mailboxes. In reality, the federal government is allowing states to be more generous ...
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Weight Watchers Experts Give Easy Ways To Grill Healthier 17.5.2013 WCCO: National
(credit: CBS)A lot of Minnesotans love to grill, but it's an easy way to blow your diet with hot dogs and cheeseburgers. And the chips and brownies, all the goodies that go along with barbecueing. So with grilling season here, we reached out to Weight Watchers to find out how they recommend staying healthy.
Man drops 130 pounds after surgery 17.5.2013 CNN: Top Stories
Debbie Benzine lost her first husband to heart disease when he was 44. His death left her to raise a young child alone. For 16 years, she stayed single because, "going through it once was enough for me."
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Keeping Produce Fresh Longer 16.5.2013 Green Technology and Environmental Science News - ENN
Billions of dollars of fruits, vegetables, and flowers are thrown away each year as produce ripens too quickly and starts to rot in different markets before public buyers even buy them. Even though you might expect these products to start rotting to their death after they are first harvested, researchers explain that fruits, vegetables and flowers are still alive after they are picked. In fact, once these products are picked, they produce and release into the air ethylene gas, a crucial component for the ripening and blooming process.
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Keeping Produce Fresh Longer 16.5.2013 Environmental News Network
Billions of dollars of fruits, vegetables, and flowers are thrown away each year as produce ripens too quickly and starts to rot in different markets before public buyers even buy them. Even though you might expect these products to start rotting to their death after they are first harvested, researchers explain that fruits, vegetables and flowers are still alive after they are picked. In fact, once these products are picked, they produce and release into the air ethylene gas, a crucial component for the ripening and blooming process.
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15 Easy recipes for eating local and vegetarian in May 16.5.2013 TreeHugger
These recipes are simple and delicious -- and they'll help you feel proud about your food's small carbon footprint.
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This farmers' market is healthier and cheaper than most 16.5.2013 San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News
More hospitals open farmers' markets to help low-income patients who need healthier diets but can't afford the cost of organic foods. On Wednesday, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center became the first county hospital in the state with a weekly market.
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Kimberly Freeman Brown: Food Policy Could Expand Access to Healthy Produce, Support Local Farmers 16.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Today, there are almost 8,000 farmers' markets throughout the United States. And according to the Department of Agriculture, local food sales now account for $5 billion annually. These markets represent an important new source of green jobs and businesses.
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Cutting back too far on salt may be hazardous to health, report suggests 15.5.2013 MinnPost
It appears that public-health efforts to encourage people at high risk of heart disease to consume very low levels of sodium may be increasing rather than decreasing those individuals’ health risks. The ongoing controversy about how much salt is too much — or too little — and for which groups of people flared up again on Tuesday in a new report from the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM). It appears that public-health efforts to encourage people at high risk of heart disease to consume very low levels of sodium may be increasing rather than decreasing those individuals’ health risks. The current Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that most adults aged 15 to 50 consume no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium — a key component of salt — daily to keep their hearts healthy. Those guidelines also recommend that people at high risk for heart disease — particularly those aged 51 and older, African-Americans, and people with diabetes, high blood pressure or chronic kidney disease — ...
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Senate Agriculture Committee Plows Forward on Farm Bill 15.5.2013 Yahoo: Politics
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday approved a five-year farm bill that reveals a new consensus on crop and nutrition policy, but it emerged over the objections of three Republican senators from the Plains—Pat Roberts of Kansas, Mike Johanns of Nebraska, and John Thune of South Dakota—who offered amendments on food stamps and commodities that a majority of the panel rejected.
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Martha Stewart goes meatless 15.5.2013 Chicago Tribune: Popular
Martha Stewart goes meatless
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Diet for a Hot and Hungry Planet: Bugs 13.5.2013 CommonDreams.org Headlines
Crickets, silworm pupae and scorpions at a Beijing market (Photo: thewamphyri/flickr) An environmentally friendly, healthy food source might be lurking in your backyard right now. read ...
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UN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world 13.5.2013 Star Tribune: Latest
The latest weapon in the U.N.'s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now.
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Eat Bugs To Combat Obesity, UN Says 13.5.2013 Green on HuffingtonPost.com
By Catherine Hornby ROME (Reuters) - The thought of eating beetles, caterpillars and ants may give you the creeps, but the authors of a U.N....
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