A diet to feel full, lose weight
Researchers in Aberdeen are working on an ‘intelligent diet’, which they believe will allow people to enjoy eating and feeling full, but still loseweight. Professor Julian Mercer, the head of obesity More...
Drinking 8 Glasses Of Water A Day Is ‘Nonsense,’ Doc Says
The health recommendation to drink six to eight glasses of water a day is “thoroughly debunked nonsense,” a doctor wrote this week in a commentary in the British Medical Journal. Many health departments More...
Menu descriptions that make me salivate
I study menus every night, so I should be immune to their literary charms. However, a few well chosen words can hook me like a fish going after a brightly colored lure. Menus that merely list ingredients, and that More...
Kellogg To Curb Kids’ Unhealthy Food Ads
WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest food companies say they will cut back on marketing unhealthier foods to children, proposing their own set of advertising standards after rejecting similar guidelines More...
Starbucks Bistro Boxes Take On Chain Restaurant Dishes
Starbucks keeps pushing further and further afield from its core coffee business in search of the big bucks. They’ve tried publishing books, serving alcohol and installing small convection ovens to heat More...
French Beauties for Bastille Day
Vive la France! Whether it’s a picnic that has you wishing you were gazing up at the Eiffel Tower or a summer supper à la provençal, toast la République on the 14th with 14 French recipes — bon appétit! Hit More...
Do Restaurants Attract Theft?
What is it about restaurants that attracts thefts? Eater has taken to documenting the “Shit People Steal” from high-end restaurants. They’ve found that customers, encouraged by the cover of dim More...
Global Warming: Nature Can’t Save Us From Ourselves
The notion that nature itself will act as a check on the atmospheric excesses of humanity has long held a fair amount of appeal, not least because it draws on a nugget of high-school science that most people can More...
Obama Administration And Wildlife Advocates Strike Deal On Endangered Species Act Protections
A federal judge was asked Tuesday to approve a pair of deals between the Obama administration and wildlife advocates that would require the government to consider greater protections for hundreds of imperiled animals More...
California Deploys Wasps, Scientists Highlight More Green Alternatives To Pesticides
The 15 million wasp eggs scattered across neighborhoods in Sacramento and San Luis Obispo counties represent a rare return to historical methods of pest control. Deployed last week, the eggs will soon give rise More...