To avoid diabetes, eat fruit, don’t drink fruit juice
Another study has shown that fruit is good for you. Just be sure to eat it in solid form. Research published Thursday in the British Medical Journal analyzed...
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Naturally Grown: An alternative label to organic
SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. — Justine and Brian Denison say they adhere to all the growing practices required for organic certification, yet if they label their...
Climate change is making your apples taste different
How do you like them apples? Because they aren’t the same apples you were eating 40 years ago (good thing too, because GROSS). A new...
Is extremism in defense of GM food a vice?
When a study came out in 2012 associating gruesomely lumpy rats with genetically modified food, critics trashed it so thoroughly that a group of researchers...
U.S. government paid $17 billion for weather-withered crops last year
Desiccated corn and sun-scorched soybeans have been in high supply lately — and we’re paying through the nose for them. The federal government forked out...
How Oprah’s Growing Healthier — And You Can Too
After more than 20 years of friendship, Oprah and her favorite health expert, Bob Greene, are taking their love of nourishing foods back to its...
StarLink resurfaces: GM corn banned decade ago found in Saudi Arabia
AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards The Saudi Arabian food chain has been widely contaminated with GM ingredients, according to a new study. The findings...
Air pollution cause of 200,000 premature US deaths – study
Smoke is released into the sky at the ConocoPhillips oil refinery in San Pedro, California (Reuters/Bret Hartman) Air pollution in major US cities is the...