Now and then I take a look at the Food Channel. The Food Channel, in case you haven’t looked lately, has changed. Once upon a time when it was younger, the Food Channel was host to a variety of cooking folks. They ranged from Paula Deen, the Southern master of butter and sweet Southern stuff, to Rachael Ray, whose hoarse voice never stops and who always seems to know where everything is in her kitchen. (She sure hasn’t been in mine lately. I can’t find anything most of the time.)
These …

When you’re shopping in the grocery store, you may notice that food packages are always labeled with the latest buzz words. Reading and understanding a nutrition label doesn’t require a degree in nutrition, but it does require that you look beyond the fancy claims on the front of the box. If you know how to read between the lines of the marketing spin, you too can know how to make the most nutritious choices without having to read the fine print.
By law, food labels must be truthful. But manufactures can …

The British Heart Foundation recommends that for a healthy heart, we should aim to eat two portions of oily fish per week. It is the Omega 3 fats found in oily fish that are thought to benefit the heart. A study by Akira Sekikawa of the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 found that the reason the Japanese have more Omega 3 in their bloodstream was unlikely to be genetic. He studied Japanese men, Western men, and those Japanese that had moved to the US and consumed a Western diet. The …

Food companies have engaged in some of the worst, self serving fraud to exploit American consumers that threaten public health and are direct contributers to the health problems in this country such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes.
If some readers are old enough to remember, in the middle half of the 20th century, there was a law put into place by Congress issuing a food label on food products that were not what they said they were. In Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food he describes that these food …

A recent informal survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket shows prices at the supermarket decreased slightly for the third consecutive quarter.
It showed the total cost of 16 food items which could be used to prepare a meal was down by 2 percent — to a cost of $46.29. Of the 16 items surveyed, 10 decreased, five increased and one remained the same in the average price, the survey said.
Russett potatoes, boneless chicken breasts, eggs, sliced deli ham and whole milk declined the most, according to the survey.
The average …