Tamar Haspel The Washington Post
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Why We Worry About Preservatives And Here's Why We Shouldn't
If you're eating healthfully a variety of whole foods with their nutrients intact then preservatives are a nonissue because you're not ingesting a lot of them. If you're eating a diet high in processed foods, then you're eating more preservatives.
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Diet Is Not Enough To Lose Weight! You Have To Change Your Environment As Well
Most of us, most of the time, don't overeat because we're hungry. We overeat because we're tempted. Yet we continue to try to lose weight by manipulating our diet rather than our environment.
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Vegetables Won't Feed The World
There are two reasons we shouldn't shift away from a system where most calories come from staples and few from vegetables, even if we could: Vegetables are too expensive, and they require too much land.
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When We Can 'Read' Our Food, the whole Dynamic Will Change
How about answering such questions as: Are there pesticide residues on this strawberry?
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It's Clear - We All Need to Take Salt Off the Table
You can fill in that blank with saturated fat, with meat, with cholesterol, and the answer's the same, because the kind of research that would definitively answer that question is impossible to do.
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For Fish Balls With Bounce, the Secret's in the Slapping
One of the best things about living in a melting pot is other people's holidays.
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Ways to Tune Up the Food System
Over the past couple of years, I've gotten ideas about food from a lot of people... And the list of potential improvements.
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Seaweed Can Help Feed the World. But Will We Eat It?
Seaweed is a crop that requires you to plant and harvest, but do very little in between. And it is good for you!
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Why We Worry About Preservatives And Here's Why We Shouldn't
If you're eating healthfully a variety of whole foods with their nutrients intact then preservatives are a nonissue because you're not ingesting a lot of them. If you're eating a diet high in processed foods, then you're eating more preservatives.
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Diet Is Not Enough To Lose Weight! You Have To Change Your Environment As Well
Most of us, most of the time, don't overeat because we're hungry. We overeat because we're tempted. Yet we continue to try to lose weight by manipulating our diet rather than our environment.
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Vegetables Won't Feed The World
There are two reasons we shouldn't shift away from a system where most calories come from staples and few from vegetables, even if we could: Vegetables are too expensive, and they require too much land.
-
When We Can 'Read' Our Food, the whole Dynamic Will Change
How about answering such questions as: Are there pesticide residues on this strawberry?
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It's Clear - We All Need to Take Salt Off the Table
You can fill in that blank with saturated fat, with meat, with cholesterol, and the answer's the same, because the kind of research that would definitively answer that question is impossible to do.
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For Fish Balls With Bounce, the Secret's in the Slapping
One of the best things about living in a melting pot is other people's holidays.
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Ways to Tune Up the Food System
Over the past couple of years, I've gotten ideas about food from a lot of people... And the list of potential improvements.
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Seaweed Can Help Feed the World. But Will We Eat It?
Seaweed is a crop that requires you to plant and harvest, but do very little in between. And it is good for you!
