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A Cheesehead who ought to know a big butt when he sees one.
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Rep. Sensenbrenner Says Michelle Obama Has a ‘Big Butt.’ Really!!?

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 24, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health

By AMY SULLIVAN Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2011/12/22/rep-sensenbrenner-says-michelle-obama-has-a-big-butt-really/#ixzz1hRAaSN2B When a 17-term Republican congressman and former chair of the House Judiciary Committee says the First Lady has a “big butt,”  there’s only one way to respond. So with apologies to Seth Myers (and Amy Poehler)… Really, Jim Sensenbrenner? Really?!  While speaking to a constituent–and one who has just expressed her [...]

Fruits & Vegetables
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Vegan Holiday Treats

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 23, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health, Vegetarian Society of Hawai'i

Uploaded by vshvideo on Dec 23, 2011 A presentation by Chef Ori Ann Li. Get festive with vegan treats this holiday season! Chef, animal advocate, and former Mrs. Hawaii, Ori Ann Li will indulge you with decadent holiday treats that will stimulate your taste buds and inspire you to make some yourself. Ori Ann traveled to different parts [...]

Doug Van Sant - Cory Booker is mayor of Newark, New Jersey and honorary vice-chair of the Partnership for a Healthier America.
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Turning To Big Business To Solve The Obesity Epidemic

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 10, 2011 in Health and Exercise, Race, Recipes for Health

by ALLISON AUBREY npr.com The Partnership for a Healthier America is a Washington-based group and has Washington’s most prestigious woman as its honorary chair: first lady Michelle Obama. But this coalition to fight childhood obesity is focused on what needs to happen outside this town, namely in the private sector, to halt the epidemic. And [...]

Gardein Savory Stuffed Turk'y
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Taste test: Faux meats for the Thanksgiving table

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Nov 26, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health

By Tim Carman, Published: November 18 washingtonpost.com No matter how you slice it, there’s a dilemma inherent in serving fake meats on Thanksgiving — and it has nothing to do with sacrificing the traditional spread of roast turkey, oyster dressing and pan gravy. For many people, forgoing meat is a moral decision, based on the desire not to [...]

Quick Pumpkin-Sage Pasta
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Fast and Easy Vegan Dishes

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Nov 06, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health

By TARA PARKER-POPE nytimes.com Every dish on the Thanksgiving table doesn’t have to involve hours of preparation. That’s why Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving series is offering four new vegan dishes that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. The vegan chef Lindsay S. Nixon is giving Well readers a sneak peek at her new cookbook, [...]

Timm Schamberger/AFP/Getty Images - A wild boar near Allersberg, Bavaria.
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The Paleo-Diet: Not The Way To A Healthy Future

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Nov 04, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health

by BARBARA J KING npr.com In a few days, the world’s population will reach 7 billion. Only a tiny fraction of this number still makes a living by hunting and gathering, the way all our ancestors did before about 12,000 years ago. According to a set of claims relentlessly pushed in some books and blogs, [...]

Robyn Mackenzie/iStockphoto.com - Would your kids eat potatoes if they looked like this?
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Vilsack: Not Done With Potatoes And School Lunch

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Oct 03, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health

by APRIL FULTON npr.com Recently, The Salt had a chance to chat with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. He’s held the top post at USDA since January 2009. As a former Iowa governor, he knows a thing or two about farm country and he’s been open about his struggles with weight. We covered a range of issues from nutrition rules to [...]

Abby Verbosky for NPR - Pawpaws may look like mangos, but unlike other tropical fruits, they are native to North America.
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Tiny Desk Kitchen: Ever Had A Pawpaw?

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 29, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health

by ALLISON AUBREY npr.com So what the heck is a pawpaw? Recently, I heard about a secret snack. Kayakers who paddle the waters near Washington, D.C., told me about a mango-like fruit that grows along the banks of the Potomac — a speckled and homely skin that hides a tasty treat. A tropical-like fruit here, really? Yep. It’s [...]

Corona Bean Stew
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Plant-Based Meals: Fit-for-a-King Corona Beans!

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 29, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health

Meg Wolff Two-time cancer survivor, healthy food expert/promoter huffingtonpost.com Last week, after my “Plant-Based Meals: Easy, Delicious, Healthy” article, a Huffington Post reader recommended I try corona beans, from Italy. He said, “When I serve these, people taste them and they look at me, surprised, and say, “What kind of beans are these?” I don’t [...]

Deaths from noninfectious diseases are increasing, especially for low- and middle-income countries.
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WHO outlines steps to reduce leading causes of death

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 26, 2011 in Recipes for Health, Vegan Health

By Madison Park, CNN updated 5:33 PM EST, Sun September 18, 2011 (CNN) – To decrease deaths from noninfectious diseases, countries should pass excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol, encourage smoke-free public places, reduce salt and trans fat in foods, and increase awareness of diet and physical activity, according to a World Health Organization report. The [...]

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Can Potatoes Give Your Health A Boost? A Chemist Thinks So

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 08, 2011 in Recipes for Health

by NANCY SHUTE npr.com Potatoes have gotten a lot of bad press as major contributors to obesity and diabetes. But Joe Vinson, a chemistry professor at the University of Scranton, aims to rehabilitate the humble tuber. When he had overweight people eat potatoes daily for a month, their blood pressure dropped, and they didn’t gain weight. That’s [...]

Tim Boyle, Getty Images - About 52% of sugary drinks are consumed at home; 48% away from home.
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Sugary drinks add 300 calories a day to youths’ diets

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 07, 2011 in Recipes for Health

By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY Teens who drink soda, energy drinks and other sugary beverages are guzzling about 327 calories a day from them, which is equal to about 2½ cans of cola, new government data shows. And people ages 20-39 who drink sugary beverages consume 336 calories a day from them. Some people are [...]

Mark Haub
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Update: Weight up, cholesterol up for man who lost 27 pounds on Twinkie diet

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 06, 2011 in Recipes for Health

August 30th, 2011 cnn.com Nutrition professor Mark Haub, who lost 27 pounds eating mainly Twinkies, powdered donuts and Oreo cookies, is back to an average American diet. Since ending his junk food experiment in November, he has gained 2 pounds and his cholesterol has also increased a little bit, he said. He also has gained [...]

Whole Foods - Wellness Club lecturers Heather Hardy, left, and Michaele Kruger teach the "Four Pillars of Healthy Eating" at a Whole Foods in Dedham, Mass.
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Whole Foods tests Wellness Clubs for healthier eating

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 01, 2011 in Recipes for Health

By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY The nation’s largest natural foods chain could once again change the supermarket experience for shoppers. Over the next three months, it will open membership-only Wellness Clubs in a handful of stores, including the first one in Dedham, Mass., which opened last week. For a one-time fee of $199 and monthly [...]

Scott Olson/Getty Images - Joe Raben harvests corn on land he farms with his father and uncle Oct. 4, 2008, near Carmi, Ill. Some farmers say technological improvements and farming mechanization, not subsidies, are responsible for increased output.
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Is U.S. Farm Policy Feeding The Obesity Epidemic?

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Aug 17, 2011 in Recipes for Health

August 10, 2011 from KCUR These days, U.S. farm policy is blamed for a lot of things — even the nation’s obesity epidemic. The idea is that the roughly $15 billion in annual subsidies that the federal government gives to farmers encourages them to grow too much grain. As a result, the theory goes, prices drop, food [...]

Coney Island Hotdog
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Neal Barnard, M.D.: Could Processed Meat Give You Cancer?

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Aug 17, 2011 in Recipes for Health

by Dr. Neal Barnard huffingtonpost.com Are hot dogs a political issue? Surprisingly so. On Monday July 25, my non-profit organization, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, erected a billboard outside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The picture was stark — a cigarette pack emblazoned with a skull and crossbones. But sticking out of the pack were [...]

Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images - Restaurants line a street of the Quartier Latin in central Paris.
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The French Are Getting Fatter, Too

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Aug 13, 2011 in Recipes for Health

Listen to the story… by ELEANOR BEARDSLEY August 6, 2011 npr.com As the United States struggles to cope with obesity rates, France is often looked to as a counterexample. Yet obesity is on the rise there as well now, and though French culinary traditions are often credited with keeping people trim, some worry those eating [...]

Wendy Fox switched the M&M's in her coffee table bowl for brightly colored marbles.
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Train your brain to crave healthy foods

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Aug 11, 2011 in Featured, Recipes for Health

By Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent August 4, 2011 11:01 a.m. EDT cnn.com (CNN) – Looking back on it, Wendy Fox thinks it was the M&M’s that did her in. They sat in a glass bowl on her living room table, taunting her every time she walked by, seemingly calling out for her to scoop up [...]

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Vegetable cutlet

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jul 25, 2011 in Recipes for Health

Uploaded by vahchef on Nov 13, 2007 This vegetarian appetizer dish will satisfy any spicy cravings for a light afternoon snack or accompaniment during meals. It goes well with Mint sauce

Marco Secchi/Getty Images - Even in Italy, healthy peasant fare like the fresh vegetables and fruits at this market stall in Venice isn't cheap, leading many there to abandon the famously healthy Mediterranean diet.
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Mediterraneans Abandon Their Famous Diet

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jul 21, 2011 in Recipes for Health

by JEREMY CHERFAS July 14, 2011 npr.com It’s not news that Americans are getting fatter and fatter, and the same is happening in many countries around the world. What may come as a bit of a surprise is that it’s even happening in Mediterranean countries, especially among young people. Pioppi, a little seaside Italian town [...]

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