Food Culture
LATEST STORIES
The Critical Role Pollinators Play and What You Can Do to Help
Bees are under attack. Here are some ideas on what you can do to save them.
A Nutrition Expert Shares Her Food Label Wish List
The integrative nutritionist shares her top five recommendations for the FDA’s revised nutrition labels.
Is Big Food Influencing Nutrition Advice?
Recently, the long-respected organization, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), has been accused of cozying up to big food industries like PepsiCO, General Mills and Hershey.
How to Cope With Loved Ones Who Don’t Support Your New, Healthy Lifestyle
Making the decision to eat healthy can trigger tension with family members or friends. Healthy-eating expert and author Darya Pino Rose shares her strategies for finding peace at the dinner table.
Radical Acts of Eating
Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl shares her thoughts on why our personal and collective commitment to clean eating matters now more than ever.
5 Ways to Protect Yourself Against Superbugs
Bacteria are waging a battle against antibiotics, which are overused and too often ineffective. But we can still win the war.
Frankenfood: The Health Concerns and Risks of Genetically Modified Foods
Genetically modified food is everywhere in America’s supermarkets and restaurants. And since it’s not labeled, most of us have no idea how much of it we’re eating — or how much it’s affecting our health.
Prisoners in Candy Land
It may seem there’s no escaping in the profusion of sugary treats we’re offered each day. Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl shares her thoughts on breaking free from the death grip they have on our health.
Super Secret Snacking Behavior
Senior editor Jamie Marting admits to all-too-frequent sugar binges — and shares her strategies for taking control. Again.
Darya Pino Rose’s Fresh Focus
Top food blogger and healthy-eating expert Darya Pino Rose suggests spring-cleaning your diet — and your perspective.
Cooking Is a Revolutionary Act
The cure for what ails us — both in our bodies and in our nation — can be found in the kitchen.
Lessons from the Movies: Hungry for Change
One meaningful message from this documentary has helped senior editor Courtney Lewis Opdahl dramatically change the way she eats.
Nuke at Your Own Risk
Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on whether it’s wrong to cringe every time a coworker microwaves a favorite plastic-packaged meal.
13 Strategies to Improve Our Food System
We think a broader collection of farmers, policy-makers, and eaters need new, bigger resolutions for fixing the food system — real changes with long-term impacts in fields, boardrooms, and on plates all over the world.
Back to the Future: ’80s Food Trends Debunked
Your neon tights, parachute pants and leg warmers are long gone, so why are you eating like it’s 1985?
Money, Politics and Health Care: A Disease-Creation Economy
Dr. Mark Hyman examines the connections of politics, money, and our healthcare system — and what we can do about it.
Practical Tips To Avoid GM Foods
Frank Lipman, MD gives you 8 tips to avoid GM foods.
What’s in Your Rice Milk?
Rice milk contains much more than simply water and rice. Learn more.
The Marketing Secrets Behind Naming Less-Than-Healthy Foods
How the name of a food product can make it seem healthier.
Food Fighter: Deb Lewison Grant
How FoodFight’s cofounder is changing the way kids think about food.
Trapped by Food Tradition
The way we eat today is shaped by legacies from long ago. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl thinks it’s time we took a fresh look at our food.