diet
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My roommate keeps throwing away food and I hate it!
This is not the first time a rotisserie chicken has threatened to tear apart a friendship. Or maybe it is, but that's why we're here.
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Advertising to kids isn’t good, it’s grrreat!
A bit of marketing from Brian Broccoli and Suzy Sweetpea drives kids to the salad bar.
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Don’t believe the slander: Americans are eating less crap.
But the rich still eat better than the rest.
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Sugar might make you stupid
We all know eating too much processed sugar screws up your body in serious ways. But a new study suggests it could mess up your brain, too.
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Mmm, vegan beefcake
There are vegan bodybuilders. Yes, this is going to blow the minds of people who look at vegetarians blankly and ask, "But how do you get enough protein?" A New York Times trend piece (it's in the Sports section! That makes it more real than a trend piece in the Style section) features a few, plus reports that while "there is little official data on competitive bodybuilders who are vegan," a website called veganbodybuilding.com "has more than 5,000 registered users."
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Where do your 42 pounds of corn syrup come from?
You know how people say Americans are gross? Americans are gross. An average one of use eats 42 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup each year. GOOD points out that that's the same weight as six newborn babies (Austin Powers was prescient).
I think at this point, we all know corn syrup is bad, even when it's called "corn sugar." But it sneaks into everything.