Thanks to my CSA, I have access to farm-fresh carrots grown within 50 miles of my NYC apartment.
Eating local foods is healthy for you, for the environment and for your community. By choosing locally-sourced goods, you’ll not only support farmers, bakers and artisans in your community, but you’ll also be adding the freshest-tasting foods available to your diet. Another (often unrealized) benefit to going local is the relationships you’ll form within your community — with other local shoppers at the farmer’s markets, with those who grow and produce your food and with local foods advocates like yourself.
Local food is getting a lot of buzz lately. It can be overwhelming to weed through all the press to find the good stuff you need to know, so we’ve come up with a list of tips to help you get started. And getting started might not be too difficult — you probably already know of a few of these or have adopted some into your lifestyle. Read More
Sherri Brooks Vinton
We’re talking with localvore and real food expert Sherri Brooks Vinton about why she fights for local foods, farmers’ market treasures and her brand-spanking new book about preserving foods at the peak of freshness.
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This week's CSA box: farm-fresh spinach, rhubarb, red and green Boston lettuce, baby Japanese turnips, baby radishes and strawberries.
Here at Healthy Eats (and Food Network), we’ve been counting down to summer produce season, and fruits and vegetables are never fresher than when you get them straight from the source: the farmer! Every week, we’ll be highlighting the best finds in our CSA boxes.
I don’t have a beautiful garden. I say it’s because I live in a tiny apartment in the city, but even if I had a huge hard, I lack the time, patience and green thumb required to grow my own food and flowers. What I do have is an organic farm in my community that will deliver to me the fresh produce I crave, without my having to hoe.
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Meal replacement diets like Slim Fast were all the rage in the 1990s. You might remember friends and coworkers whipping out cans of the liquid shakes during lunch breaks. So are liquid meal replacements a thing of the past or can they be a healthy way to lose weight?
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Once the high-protein craze began to die down, the South Beach Diet swooped in and promised weight loss without cutting the carbs. But is this diet all that it’s cracked up to be?
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The Zone is what made that whole 40-30-30 calorie combination popular — that is, 40% of your calories come from carbs, 30% from fat and 30% from protein. This “magical” mix promises to lower risks for heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Here’s a closer look at the diet.
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At the height of the low-carb craze, Atkins was king. While many folks claim to lose weight following this plan, registered dietitians and other health pros are no fans — here’s why.
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With thousands of diets out there, knowing which plan is right (and safe!) for you can make your head spin. In this new series, we are looking at some of the most popular diets. This week: Weight Watchers.
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When I sit down to think about new year’s resolutions, I try to come up with healthy additions that I can make to my lifestyle — not just “bad things” I need to take away.
As you may know, I’m very passionate about living “green,” so I thought I would share a few simple ways you can green up your life — particularly your kitchen — for 2010.
Even if being green is not your thing, these changes can help to save you money, make you healthier and introduce you to some tasty eats. Try one or them all — every little step helps.
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In this week’s nutrition news: An update on Cheerios’ cholesterol claims, battle the flu with healthy habits and a new study shows eating whole grains keeps blood pressure in check.
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