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Top 10 Superfoods Ranked by Experts

Top 10 Superfoods Ranked by Experts

In a first of its kind study, Jennifer Di Noia, PhD, an associate professor of sociology at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey ranked fruits and vegetables by their nutritional values. These “powerhouse fruits and vegetables” were ranked and scored by the amount of 17 critical nutrients they contain, including fiber, potassium, protein, calcium folate, […]

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    6 Ways to Include Superfoods When You Travel

    6 Ways to Include Superfoods When You Travel

    You know you should be eating better, incorporating some of those great superfoods into your diet regularly. But when you travel for your job, you find yourself grabbing something quick on the go, and somehow you find yourself nodding off at that meeting or crashing too early. Getting some work done in a hotel room […]

    Why Antioxidants in Superfoods Are Essential to Your Diet

    Why Antioxidants in Superfoods Are Essential to Your Diet

    You hear about antioxidants all the time when you’re reading about great, healthy superfoods. They all have them. But what is an antioxidant and what does it do? Here’s a good basic explanation, a sort of “Science of Antioxidants 101.” To boil it down to even simpler terms, atoms, which hook up to form molecules, […]

    Garlic: The World’s Immune System-Boosting Superfood

    Garlic: The World’s Immune System-Boosting Superfood

    Throughout history garlic has been a known immune system-boosting, disease fighting superfood. While it is most often served cooked, eating raw garlic can supercharge your immune system. Currently, the consumption of garlic is at an all-time high. The majority of garlic sold worldwide is grown in China where it is mass-produced. In the U.S., California is […]

    Is Palm Oil Explosion Driving Ebola Outbreak?

    Is Palm Oil Explosion Driving Ebola Outbreak?

    The growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a commentary on they way in which the political ecology in West Africa has allowed this disease to become established. The global palm oil industry shows the trend of deep-cutting into forests for agricultural development has breached […]

    8 Superfoods You Should Eat This Fall

    8 Superfoods You Should Eat This Fall

    As the “buy local” food movement has grown, so too has the awareness of the benefits of eating seasonally. The tastelessness of those January tomatoes after you’ve eaten one straight off the vine in August may have something to do with that too! But as those wonderful summer tomatoes vanish into memory, what is being harvested […]

    Interactive Map: Find Out if Your Child’s School Is Near a Chemical Plant

    Interactive Map: Find Out if Your Child’s School Is Near a Chemical Plant

    In the early evening of April 17, 2013, a fertilizer storage and distribution facility on the small town of West, Texas, blew up, killing 15 people, injuring 160 more and leveling much of the town. The plant was last inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1985. The company had apparently failed to […]

    WTO Says U.S. Consumers Don’t Need to Know Where Meat Comes From

    WTO Says U.S. Consumers Don’t Need to Know Where Meat Comes From

    This week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) finally issued a decision in the challenge made by Mexico and Canada to the U.S.’s country-of-origin (COOL) labeling rules for meat. And environmental and food safety groups are hopping mad, as WTO upheld the contention made by those countries, supported by multi0national meat packers, that the rules unfairly […]

    11 Must-Have Apps for Local Foodies

    11 Must-Have Apps for Local Foodies

    Picking the best in-season produce with the lowest pesticide levels or purchasing the most sustainable seafood at the local farmers market can be a challenge. Here are 11 apps that help increase the impact of each market visit for buyers and sellers alike. The Dirty Dozen app helps you decide when finding an organic alternative is especially important. Photo credit: Environmental […]