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  • The Bacon Weave Elvis Sandwich

    The Elvis is perhaps one of the greatest sandwiches ever created. How can you not love the combination of peanut butter, bacon and banana? In the past I’ve even toyed with various iterations of the Elvis by creating Elvis Cookies and the Spicy Elvis. This time, I decided to stick much closer to the original... Visit Article

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Raw Milk Movement Takes Hits From Courts, Health Officials

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It has been a bit of a sour week for drinkers of raw milk. Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a federal court had granted it a permanent injunction to keep a Pennsylvania raw milk maker from distributing across state lines to raw milk buying clubs. The decision was ... More

Top Ten Junk Foods To Avoid Ever

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Editor's Note:  Perhaps we should have posted this article BEFORE the Super Bowl, but just in case you needed a reminder, read this great article from Top Tens Things. Who can resist the heavenly flavors of a juicy steak or crispy fried temptations called junk food. Though packed beautifully, the junk ... More

A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts weight gain

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Editor's note: This article was first published on the Princeton University website on March 22, 2010. A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, ... More

Genetically Modified Technology is way more complicated than the regulations give credit

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By Ari LaVaux Chinese researchers have found small pieces of rice ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice. The Nanjing University-based team showed that this genetic material will bind to receptors in human liver cells and influence the uptake of cholesterol from the blood. The type ... More

7 Foods You Should Never Eat

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Clean eating means choosing fruits, vegetables, and meats that are raised, grown, and sold with minimal processing. Often they're organic, and rarely (if ever) should they contain additives. But in some cases, the methods of today's food producers are neither clean nor sustainable. The result is damage to our health, ... More

The Worst Fast Food Creations in 2011

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For years, America's fast-food empires have embodied what's wrong with our eating habits: Too fast, for one thing, and too fatty. And thanks to the trend that dominated fast food in 2011, you can add another downside: Way, way too flagrantly over-the-top. This was the year that fast-food outlets across America ... More

Big Food Ad Strategies Focus On Farmers And Freshness

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McDonald's new ad campaign, set to debut January 2, focuses on the farmers that supply McDonald's with food. It's a different strategy than previous campaigns, designed to connect the farm with the table. In other words, if those french fries look lifeless and processed to you, fear not! Farmer Frank ... More

Foods To Avoid

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The modern dietary regimen known as the Paleolithic diet (abbreviated paleo diet or paleodiet), also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during ... More