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Have you had a chance to read Michael Pollan’s latest book, “Food Rules” yet? If not, you’d better put it on reserve at the library or head to the bookstore because it’s getting rave reviews all over the place. Longtime New York Times nutrition writer Jane Brody (who wrote a pretty great book on nutrition herself) even called it the most intelligent, sensible and simple-to-follow book she’s seen in her more than 4 decades writing about health.
That’s a pretty ringing endorsement, given that Pollan is a journalist, not a nutrionist. Of course, his entertaining, intelligently humorous style and ability to coin phrases like “edible foodlike substance” to describe a great deal of what’s in the grocery store these days probably has a lot to do with his popularity. Interested in getting a little taste of “Food Rules”? Check out our excerpt from the book here and a 2006 interview with Pollan here. Continue reading »
Campbell’s chicken noodle soup. Del Monte green beans. Star-Kist tuna. Juicy Juice.
A Consumer Reports (via Change.org) test found that the 19 products, all common and popular packaged foods, contain some amount of the chemical Bisphenol A. BPA, as you’re surely aware, is public enemy No. 1 these days in the world of family food, as it has been linked in some studies to reproductive problems, breast and prostate cancers, heart disease and diabetes.
Even some SIGG water bottles contain BPA, so the fact that Chef Boyardee raviolis turned up some amount of the stuff isn’t that big of a shocker.
But you know what is?
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