By Eliz­a­beth Weise (USA Today) Last week in a series of morn­ing TV inter­views, Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion Com­mis­sioner Mar­garet Ham­burg told con­sumers that they should reject over-​​easy eggs and avoid “runny egg yolks for mop­ping up with toast.” Carol Tucker-​​Foreman, an assis­tant sec­re­tary of agri­cul­ture under Pres­i­dent Carter who’s worked on food pol­icy at...
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By Sarah De Heer (Slash​Food​.com) Just when we thought Times Square had it all — Pop-​​Tarts intro­duces Pop-​​Tarts World, a 3,000 square-​​foot sugar metrop­o­lis, which opened Tues­day. The store has Pop-​​Tarts mer­chan­dise, a cus­tom T-​​shirt cre­ation sta­tion, the “vari­etizer” machine and a Pop-​​Tarts Café. The cen­ter­piece of the store, the Café, lists about 30 menu...
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(Sci­enceDaily) Although caf­feine is the most widely con­sumed psy­choac­tive drug world­wide, its poten­tial ben­e­fi­cial effect for main­te­nance of proper brain func­tion­ing has only recently begun to be ade­quately appre­ci­ated. Sub­stan­tial evi­dence from epi­demi­o­log­i­cal stud­ies and fun­da­men­tal research in ani­mal mod­els sug­gests that caf­feine may be pro­tec­tive against the cog­ni­tive decline seen in demen­tia and...
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By Dul­cie Pearce (The Sun) Abi Blake, 30, uses her own breast milk in recipes to cre­ate a com­plete breast milk menu, which includes tarts, smooth­ies and even lasagne. The mar­ried mum-​​of-​​one shares her cre­ations with friends and even sells the food to strangers at food festivals. Abi, who uses a breast pump to...
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By Peter Eisler (USA TODAY) Beef con­tain­ing harm­ful pes­ti­cides, vet­eri­nary antibi­otics and heavy met­als is being sold to the pub­lic because fed­eral agen­cies have failed to set lim­its for the con­t­a­m­i­nants or ade­quately test for them, a fed­eral audit finds Even when the inspec­tion ser­vice does iden­tify a lot of beef with high lev­els of...
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By Sid Kirch­heimer Reviewed by Michael W. Smith, MD (WebMD) Cof­fee, the much maligned but undoubt­edly beloved bev­er­age, just made head­lines for pos­si­bly cut­ting the risk of the lat­est dis­ease epi­demic, type 2 dia­betes. And the real news seems to be that the more you drink, the better. After ana­lyz­ing data on 126,000 peo­ple...
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(Tele­graph UK) Jon Basso, owner of the Heart Attack Grill in Chan­dler, Ari­zona, claims that Iggy Lena and Bob Kut­nick stole his idea of a restau­rant spe­cial­is­ing in high-​​cholesterol food when they cre­ated the Heart Stop­pers Sports Grill in Del­ray Beach, Florida. Mr Basso’s law­suit demands that the pair cease and desist-​​change their med­ical...
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(Female­First) Fresh fruit and veg­eta­bles are off the menu, as recession-​​hit Britons put their health on the back burner in favour of a diet of junk food and ready meals, new research has revealed. Over 30% feel that their diet has wors­ened since the start of the recent eco­nomic downturn. The sur­vey by the...
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