Morning reading: In food news
January 28th, 2010
- I thought I was tired of reading about obesity in the U.S., but found this article by Harley Pasternak interesting: America Wasn’t Born Fat [The Huffington Post]
- An interesting post called, “Why Michelle Obama’s Initiative to Reduce Childhood Obesity Will Fail” [Fooducate] The reason? “It is far more profitable for America to ‘fix’ obesity related ailments than to prevent them.”
- From a series on weight management [Decision News Media/NutraIngredients]: Backing up the satiety and metabolic claims & Slimming ingredients beyond satiety
- One of the reasons that I like my green tea: Tea compounds may boost attention span [Decision News Media/NutraIngredients]
- Who doesn’t like a flow chart? You Dropped Food on the Floor. Do You Eat It? [SF Weekly]
- On Sunday January 31, it’s Canadian Chef Michael Smith vs. Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America. Too bad I don’t have cable. [CNW/ Canwest Broadcasting press release]
- Tailor your miracle food to that miserable mood [National Post]
- New farmers’ market launches at CBC [Toronto Star]
- Tim Horton’s is introducing its own version of McDonald’s Egg McMuffin. [Financial Post]
- Last week during a visit to Starbucks with a colleague I was shocked to find packaged snacks (Lucy’s) that are both vegan and gluten free, as well as Sahale Snacks. I wondered if it was just that particular store. According to this article, it’s company-wide. [Ecorazzi]
- I often enjoy posts from The Food Lab series. The latest? How To Make The Best Chili Ever [Serious Eats]
- Volume 8 of Spezzatino is out, and the focus is coffee. Now that’s something to wake up to. [Spezzatino] (Related post: Spreading the Spezzatino word)
Yoga update coming later today.
“Tim Horton’s is introducing its own version of McDonald’s Egg McMuffin.” Good thing! Just the other day I was thinking that there was a shortage of places to get plastic looking food.