Why Everyone’s Obsessed With Meat Sticks and Cottage Cheese

18 hours, 5 minutes ago

Letters to the Editor: A children’s school book sponsored by a cereal brand? No thanks

LA Times

To the editor: As a registered nurse who works in an emergency room and far too regularly cares for patients with preventable diseases, I was alarmed to see the featured photo in the print California section showing elementary school children reading a book Exposure to this type of propagandist Eating patterns, tastes and preferences are initiated in early childhood. Therefore, …

6 days, 18 hours ago

Newsom aims to limit unhealthy food in California, getting ahead of Trump administration and RFK Jr.

LA Times

Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday attempting to limit access to ultra-processed foods, a directive he cast as a continuation of California’s “nation leading” nutrition and health standards. We’re going to work with the industry, consumers and experts to crack down on ultra-processed foods and create a healthier future for every Californian.” The order directs state agencies to …

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1 week ago

To get healthier and wealthier, avoid Veganuary – and do ‘Canuary’ instead

The Independent

Tinned food fell out of favour when British families stopped eating Libby’s Fruit Cocktail with evaporated milk for pudding, and started buying the infinitely more sophisticated Viennetta. Suddenly, it was no longer cool to serve tinned corn, when you could keep a giant bag of it in the freezer – and even canned Goblin meatballs stopped counting as one of …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Junk food companies 'freaking out' as people on weight-loss meds eat better: columnist

Raw Story

Junk food companies are starting to get nervous over how many Americans use GLP-1 medications to lose weight. Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell walked through shocking details of the economic impact of drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic cited in a new study by Cornell University and Numerator. Meanwhile, the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, which makes Ozempic and Wegovy, made …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Farmers’ markets are a vital but overlooked part of fixing Canada’s struggling food system

Salon

Since the onset of the pandemic, food prices have remained stubbornly high, even as grocery chains have made record profits. While the federal government has just launched a grocery affordability tool to provide more transparency around pricing, little is known about food price dynamics in local food systems like farmers' markets. Farmers' markets shield consumers Using pilot data and interviews …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Don't replace home-cooked meals with ready-to-eat foods. Here's why

Firstpost

As the demand for convenience foods and ready-to-eat snacks grows rapidly in India, a study published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One raises red flags over its consumption on long-term health. The nutrition scientists analysed over 400 popular food items in the Indian market and called for a redesign of the convenience food matrix A recent study has revealed that …

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1 month ago

No more apps: How saying goodbye to Big Food delivery changed the way I eat

Salon

When my partner and I relocated to a new-to-us Chicago apartment — an antique-feeling number on the corner of the sixth floor — we made the mutual decision to forgo movers. Food delivery apps curate vast menus, spanning every conceivable cuisine, dietary preference and craving, transforming the act of choosing dinner into a delightful browsing experience. Having spent a decade …

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1 month ago

It has been the model of healthy eating since the 1980s - but is the food pyramid actually making you SICK (and fat)? Our leading experts weigh in...

Daily Mail

Experts are saying the decades-old Australian model for healthy eating is past its used-by date - and could even be damaging your health. Nutritionist Lee Holmes thinks the current dietary guidelines aren't useful for many Australians who suffer from food allergies and can sometimes not consume a whole category such as dairy Susie Burrell, also a leading nutritionist, thinks the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ben Fogle: “Why the stories behind our food really matter for the future of our planet”

The Independent

Perhaps it’s unsurprising that sustainability is a subject close to Ben Fogle’s heart. “Thinking about sustainability is vital.” And yet, despite his globe-trotting escapades, Fogle’s interest lies in the changes we can make much closer to home, particularly when it comes to where and how we shop. Understanding the stories behind what we are buying is not just about the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Will RFK Jr. ‘go wild’ on Big Food? Why that could be a good thing

LA Times

Could RFK Jr. “make America healthy again”? In an ABC News story headlined “Some of RFK Jr.’s views are finding support in some unexpected quarters,” journalist Olivia Rubin writes that Pollan made it clear to ABC News “that he thinks Kennedy is a ‘horrible’ choice for the job.” Nevertheless, he said of Kennedy, “He’s injected these issues into the national …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Food worth $1.5 trillion goes to waste annually, experts raise concern at COP29

India Today

At the COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, food security, sustainability, and agriculture have emerged as critical topics during the second week of discussions. Activists, policymakers, and environmental experts are emphasising the urgent need for sustainable food systems, tackling food waste, and addressing the global hunger crisis exacerbated by climate change. The Waste and Resource Action Program report, released last week, …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Dry yoghurt’ is proof we should all stop playing with our food

The Independent

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2 months ago

Innovation, clean labels will drive snacks business

Hindustan Times

We are just past the festive Diwali season when India goes into an overdrive in consumption of sweet and savoury snacks. A closer look at the gift hampers exchanged on the occasion, though, shows that Indians are increasingly making healthier food choices picking products like fox nuts roasted in olive oil, zero ‘maida’ cookies, jaggery-based ‘mithais’ and unsweetened functional beverages. …

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2 months ago

The 'healthy' supermarket staples that are actually bad for you: Dietitian SUSIE BURRELL reveals the popular items she avoids at all costs - and what you should be buying instead

Daily Mail

There's a quiet sense of satisfaction that comes with placing an unhealthy treat back on the supermarket shelf in favour of its low-calorie, slightly less fun alternative. Dietitian Susie Burrell has revealed the 'healthy' supermarket items she avoids at all costs Susie says one of the biggest misconceptions about these alternatives is that a highly processed product with no sugar …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Fast Food Politicians: A Culinary Coup of Outsiders

New Indian Express

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55 years ago

Trump Harris polls: Will this giant jam bun cost Democrats the election?

Slate

Almost exactly two years ago, the New York Times’ Cooking section printed a delightful piece of politics counterprogramming called “Election Day Recipes,” a list of 82 dishes “to cook and eat as the results roll in.” The publication of this list, slanted toward indulgent comfort food like the so-called Big Lasagna, was a valuable service, although it was a bit …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

What cost of living crisis? A third of us are food shopping at M&S

The Independent

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

When did food become such a luxury?

LA Times

The industrial food supply will be the last bastion of the luxury economy, and we might mirror the cannibals in doomsday movies before we cede our idiosyncratic eating habits to austerity. Capitalism is amazing because it inspires unrelenting competition between brands and the branding of items that should be generic — organized and categorized by which boasts the best flavor, …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Ruth Reichl: “The delicious revolution" was a distraction from America's food crisis

Salon

Most people wouldn't recall the early days of the pandemic as "the moment I've been waiting for my whole life." But Ruth Reichl, whose new documentary "Food and Country" reveals America's food crisis from the perspective of the farmers, ranchers, restauranteurs and activists whose livelihoods were upended by it, isn't most people. We take food for granted, and maybe this …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Graphic reveals the junk foods driving America's obesity epidemic

Daily Mail

America's obsession with pizza could be fueling an epidemic of obesity, a report suggests. Medical experts at online drug marketplace Universal Drugstore analyzed Google search and survey data to determine the most popular junk foods Americans like to gorge on, totaling average calories, fat, and sugars for each to determine which ones were the unhealthiest. A new report ranked the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Unlocking millions of tonnes of wasted food to help those in need the aim of food tax bill

ABC

Yoghurt manufacturer Chobani donated 150,000 kilograms of product to charity last year. "Often, surplus stock does go into alternative waste streams, so any cost relief any food manufacturer can get … would certainly ensure that that food is diverted outside of a food waste stream and into the hands and onto the kitchen tables of those that need it," Mr …

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55 years ago

American food: The 20 greatest dishes

CNN

CNN — Editor’s Note: Americans have come up with a lot of incredible foods. As Kevin Noble Maillard puts it in 2019’s “Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story”: Fry bread is us. Its super-compressed origin story could be fancifully called “From the Golden Horde to the Golden Arches.” Burger expert George Motz traces the modern burger’s ancestry back to …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

McDonald's fans rejoice as popular breakfast item returns to US menus after four years

Daily Mail

McDonald's is bringing back a popular breakfast item to US menus after four years. McDonald's is bringing back breakfast bagels in four varieties, including the sausage variant pictured here Facebook groups have sprung up calling for the return of bagels at McDonald's When the DailyMail.com last looked at the list in April, the group had 12,000 members who had spotted …

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4 months ago

The Average American Eats 42 Pounds of Cheese a Year, and That Number Could Go Up

Bloomberg

Is there such a thing as too much cheese? America’s per capita cheese consumption has more than doubled since the government began keeping track in 1975, to about 42 pounds a year—more than all the butter, ice cream and yogurt combined. Facilities for making cheese account for more than half of the $8 billion in US dairy-product projects slated to …

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4 months, 1 week ago

How Gail’s took over Britain and made paying a fiver for a loaf no big deal

The Independent

Bread is as British as a cup of tea, a Sunday roast or a rainy summer holiday, woven into everything from breakfast to pudding. Whether it’s the comforting crunch of toast drenched in never-enough salted butter, the frugal joy of bread and butter pudding or the humble bacon sandwich – where even that much-derided processed white-sliced can hold its own …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

The decline of McDonald’s: How the golden arches lost their shine

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Can big food adapt to healthier diets?

Live Mint

Big food, it seems, has a sweet tooth. Consumers who have found it difficult to alter their diets may at last be able to do so thanks to new blockbuster weight-loss drugs including Wegovy and Zepbound. View Full Image Graphic: The Economist Big food may well take these developments in its stride. In May Nestlé, the world’s biggest such firm, …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Struggling Aussies forced to choose between buying medication or groceries as cost of living crisis continues to bite

Daily Mail

Families battling the cost-of-living crisis are going hungry waiting for an inquiry into Victoria's food security to report its findings, advocates say. About a third of almost 180 submissions to a Victorian inquiry into food security came from struggling families, Sustain: The Australian Food Network executive director Nick Rose said. About one in three Australians faces moderate to severe food …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Mars, maker of M&M's and Snickers, to buy Cheez-It owner Kellanova for nearly $30 billion

The Independent

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5 months, 1 week ago

The Future of Junk Food Could Be Healthy Food

Bloomberg

A few weeks ago, PepsiCo Inc. —the biggest maker of grocery store food in the US—reported its quarterly earnings. After several years of price hikes, consumers are buying less of PepsiCo’s food and beverages, which include Lay’s potato chips, Doritos and Mountain Dew. Chief Executive Officer Ramon Laguarta blamed struggling American shoppers, whom he’ll try to woo back with discounts …

5 months, 1 week ago

Americans keep turning their backs on McDonald’s

CNN

CNN — Inflation has caught up with McDonald’s, and budget-conscious Americans are looking elsewhere for their fast-food fix. McDonald’s on Monday reported that sales at US stores open at least a year fell 0.7% last quarter from the same period a year earlier, dragged down by fewer customers going to the fast-food company’s restaurants. McDonald’s isn’t alone: Starbucks, Burger King, …

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6 months ago

67 pc Indians prefer makhana, dry fruits as go-to healthy snacks: Report

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: In its bid to examine the evolving consumption trends in India, Farmley, the leading wholesome snacking specialist, unveiled first-of-its-kind Healthy Snacking Report 2024 at the first Indian Healthy Snacking Summit held in the National Capital. This has triggered a wave of conscious consumption, with shoppers checking food packets for potentially harmful substances, as per the survey conducted for the …

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6 months, 1 week ago

These healthier McDonald’s items are getting the chop

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy McDonald's is axing some …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

We're living in the "little treats economy." Whole Foods is ready to cash in

Salon

The dairy section of my local supermarket is pretty grim. On Monday, Whole Foods Chief Executive Jason Buechel gave the keynote address at the Specialty Food Association’s annual Summer Fancy Food Show, held at New York City’s Javits Center. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's progressive journalism “TikTok creators have brought ‘Little Treat Culture’ …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

What Americans want from food: Energy, muscle strength, better health and less stress

LA Times

People enjoy their lunch while eating in the back patio at Citizen Public Market in Culver City. In the 2024 survey — which was answered by 3,000 Americans in March — about 30% of respondents said an item’s sustainability mattered a lot when making purchasing decisions about what to eat and drink. Protein is the most popular nutrient du jour …

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7 months ago

Meet the uber-wealthy families who control much of the food system in the US and Australia

ABC

Austin Frerick's interest in mega-rich farmers began in 2018, while he was perched on a stool in a hipster dive bar in Iowa during a competitive local political campaign. Frerick says the other advantage of the family's anonymity is that "it's actually really, really hard to find out what they own, how much they own, where they operate". The grocery …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Nearly 80% of Americans say fast food is now a luxury because it’s become so expensive

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Almost 80 percent of …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Food Companies Want a Piece of the Ozempic Pie, Too

Bloomberg

Over the past couple of years, Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs have transformed the medical landscape, and food companies have expressed worries that a big change in eating habits would disrupt their business. If this email was forwarded to you, Last fall, word of a looming existential threat to the packaged food industry began to bubble up in earnings calls …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

As the American hunger crisis worsens, Republicans prepare to take a big bite out of SNAP

Salon

On Valentine’s Day, during a hearing of the House Agriculture Committee, Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, a Republican from Pennsylvania, proposed a funding framework for the Farm Bill that included a $30 billion cut in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits over the next decade. The proposal would limit future updates to the Thrifty Food Plan, which is used by the United …

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8 months ago

Undernutrition and anaemia remain pressing public health issues

The Hindu

Undernutrition and anaemia continue to persist as public health issues with an estimated 56.4% of total disease burden in India being attributed to unhealthy diets, according to the latest Dietary Guidelines for Indians developed by Indian Council of Medical Research -National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. It said a significant proportion of children continue to suffer impaired nutritional status while concurrently …

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8 months ago

The new dress code for snack execs: ditch the tie, bring the stretchy pants

Live Mint

Corporate directors have hefty responsibilities at quarterly board meetings. In the name of due diligence, for instance, directors munch throughout the board meetings of J & J Snack Foods, the company behind the SuperPretzel, ICEE frozen treats and Dippin’ Dots. Forget about that diet At Gerhard Pleuhs’ first Panera Brands board meeting last November, directors feasted on many of the …

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8 months ago

The cultured wars: Why lab-grown meat is inspiring bipartisan hate

Salon

Ron DeSantis wants to “protect meat.” This is something the governor of Florida — a Republican who was previously, and perhaps fittingly, dubbed “Meatball Ron” by former president Donald Trump — has made clear for months, first while railing against ESG frameworks and a California law that requires farmers to provide more room for breeding pigs, and then eventually in …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Forget what you thought about cavemen! Early hunter-gatherers were mostly VEGETARIAN and gorged on beige starchy foods, study claims

Daily Mail

Cavemen abandoned meat and went vegetarian more than 15,000 years ago, scientists have found. But rather than embracing healthy leafy greens and colourful vegetables, our ancient ancestors gorged on beige starchy foods like cereals, nuts and legumes. Researchers analysed the bones and teeth of Stone Age hunter-gatherers, who are often depicted feasting on slabs of meat, to discover their true …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Food inflation eases as price of meat, crumpets and chocolate biscuits fell last month, ONS says

Daily Mail

The pace of UK food inflation fell to the lowest annual rate since November 2021 in March, official figures from the Office for National Statistics show. Overall, prices for food and non-alcoholic drinks increased by 4 per cent in the year to March, down from 5 per cent in the year to February, the ONS said. The ONS data showed …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

"The curtain was pulled back": The producers of "Food Inc. 2" on why transparency in food matters

Salon

“Food, Inc. 2,” the long-awaited sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary "Food, Inc,” follows in the footsteps of its revelatory predecessor. Following the documentary’s theatrical premiere, Pollan and Schlosser sat down with Salon to discuss why it’s necessary to have greater transparency within our food system. To put out information that tells you here's what's going on with your food …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Movie Review: ‘Food, Inc. 2’ revisits food system, sees reason for frustration and (a little) hope

Associated Press

The makers of the influential 2008 documentary “Food, Inc.” never planned to make a sequel. But 16 years after that Oscar-nominated film, they’re back with “Food, Inc. 2.” What happened? “You can change the world with every bite,” the first film had argued, urging consumers to buy local and organic, patronize farmer’s markets, demand healthy school lunches and most of …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Looted fields and soaring hunger: Gang violence hits Haiti’s rural heartlands

The Independent

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

Column: Cereal for dinner? It’s one way to beat supermarket inflation

LA Times

Every once in a while, Shardreata Moore gets a Subway coupon in the mail, and she knows she won’t have to worry about her next three meals. On a tight budget, Moore said, “It’s difficult to eat healthy.” California is about to be hit by an aging population wave, and Steve Lopez is riding it. Beverly Ventriss, VIC’s president and …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

College student draws flak for claiming there's 'nothing to eat except McDonald's and Greggs' for lunch - as critics say 'anyone can make their own packed lunch'

Daily Mail

A student was today accused of 'making excuses' by claiming that Greggs and McDonald's were the only options he had for lunch. A student claimed that Greggs and McDonald's were the only options he had for lunch The unidentified college student said it was a 'problem' that there is 'nowhere' for him to go apart from the two chains for …

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Why Everyone’s Obsessed With Meat Sticks and Cottage Cheese

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