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Big Names Say It's Time for 'National Food Policy'

Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman say health of people and environment depend on it

(Newser) - Two of the biggest names in the world of healthful eating team up today for a Washington Post op-ed calling for a "national food policy." Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman, along with two other experts, say that our current food-production system has caused so much damage to our...

Time for a Federal Tax on Soda

 Time for 
 a Federal 
 Tax on Soda 
OPINION

Time for a Federal Tax on Soda

Mark Bittman salutes bill being introduced today

(Newser) - A Connecticut congresswoman is proposing a federal tax on soda, and chef and columnist Mark Bittman is throwing his weight behind it. "A well-crafted soda tax is likely to work to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, and therefore obesity, and therefore diabetes, and therefore health care costs, and to...

One Weird Thing North Korea Does Better Than the West

Pour a glass of its Asian pear juice, say 2 samplers

(Newser) - Is there anything North Korea can teach the US? Turns out ... juice drinks? At Foreign Policy , Justin Rohrlich got his hands on snacks and drinks from nations cut off from American junk food—North Korea, Syria, Iran, and Cuba. He enlisted food writer Mark Bittman to help him sample the...

Why You Should Brown-Bag It
 Why You Should Brown-Bag It 
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Why You Should Brown-Bag It

Mark Bittman recommends you bring your lunch to work

(Newser) - It may not be the "hip" thing to do, but Mark Bittman thinks you should start bringing your own lunch to work. "What happens when you bring your lunch is that you start to see it as primary, and the restaurants and fast-food joints and company cafeterias as...

How Fast Food Can Be Good And Good For You
How Fast Food Can Be
Tasty And Healthy
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How Fast Food Can Be Tasty And Healthy

Mark Bittman searches for a new standard in fast casual dining

(Newser) - Americans are increasingly seeking out healthier, higher-quality and more humane food. So when will the fast food industry catch up? Mark Bittman, who just wrote a book on that very topic, poses the question in the New York Times Magazine . He finds that "fast casual" outfits like Chipotle—which...

Sugar, Not Obesity, Is Our 'Smoking Gun'

Study conclusively finds that sugar is toxic, declares Mark Bittman

(Newser) - Sugar is "toxic," and is hands-down the biggest problem with the American diet, declares Mark Bittman in the New York Times . He cites a new study that finds increased sugar consumption is linked to increased diabetes rates, regardless of obesity rates. "In other words, according to this...

Quick, Name the Surgeon General ... Didn't Think So
Quick, Name the Surgeon General ... Didn't Think So
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Quick, Name the Surgeon General ... Didn't Think So

Mark Bittman on why we need a strong one again

(Newser) - With Americans' terrible diets responsible for millions of premature deaths along with soaring health-care costs, the country needs a strong surgeon general more than ever to fight "the obfuscation and confusion sown by Big Food," writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times . But, sadly, the essential job...

No More Sodas for Food Stamps
 No More Sodas 
 for Food Stamps 
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No More Sodas for Food Stamps

Government is subsidizing obesity: Mark Bittman

(Newser) - It's time to stop letting people buy soda and other sugary garbage with food stamps, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times . At the same time, the government can encourage healthier food choices by increasing the value of the stamps when used to buy fruits and veggies. The...

Pink Slime a Symptom of a Darker Disease

 Pink Slime a Symptom 
 of a Darker Disease 
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Pink Slime a Symptom of a Darker Disease

Mark Bittman reminds us that there's far worse stuff in our meat

(Newser) - Public outcry appears to have essentially killed "pink slime" (or as its producers would prefer you refer to it, "Lean Finely Textured Beef"), and Mark Bittman can't help but find that encouraging—and a little ironic. "The stuff is gross, for sure, but it’s...

Potatoes Make Junk Food —but They're Not Junk
Potatoes Make Junk Food
—but They're Not Junk
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Potatoes Make Junk Food —but They're Not Junk

Mark Bittman: Corn, potatoes don't deserve their bad rap

(Newser) - Corn and potatoes get a bad rap, due to the fact that we mainly consume them in junk food form. But corn and potatoes themselves are, Mark Bittman reminds us in the New York Times , "real food"—unlike, say, Pringles, which are potato chips that contain just 42%...

Mark Bittman: It's Time for Twinkies, Hostess to Die
 It's Time for Twinkies to Die 
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It's Time for Twinkies to Die

Hostess' demise is a good thing: Mark Bittman

(Newser) - Hostess' bankruptcy filing probably won't mean the death of the Twinkie—rather, a restructuring of the company—but even if it did, it would be a death we should celebrate, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times . The food columnist admits he ate his fair share of...

Mark Bittman: Go 'Semi-Vegan' for a Better Diet
 Fix Your Diet: 
 Go 'Semi-Vegan' 
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Fix Your Diet: Go 'Semi-Vegan'

Drop meat once a week: Mark Bittman

(Newser) - "Lose weight" tends to make a whole lot of Americans' lists of New Year's resolutions. But Mark Bittman has a news flash for you: What we all really need to do is not obsess over dieting, but "eat better." And to do so, all we need...

Bittman: Time to Tax Junk Food
 Bittman: 
 Time to Tax 
 Junk Food 
OPINION

Bittman: Time to Tax Junk Food

With obesity costing US billions, gov't must help health

(Newser) - With the "Standard American Diet" producing ever more heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, it's time to tax junk food and subsidize vegetables, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times . "Right now it’s harder for many people to buy fruit than Froot Loops," he says,...

Mark Bittman: 6 Morsels of Good News on Food
 6 Morsels of  
 Good Foodie News 
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6 Morsels of Good Foodie News

School lunches are improving; Walmart's into sustainability: Mark Bittman

(Newser) - Sometimes it’s important for a critic to drop the criticism and offer some praise. In the New York Times , Mark Bittman presents a taste of good news in the food world:
  1. Backers of better food policy are gaining real traction: The reauthorized Child Nutrition Act will improve school lunches,
...

Mark Bittman on Animal Cruelty: We Can't Kick a Dog, but We Can Torture Farm Animals
We Hate Animal Cruelty—Unless We're Eating
the Animal
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We Hate Animal Cruelty—Unless We're Eating the Animal

Pets, not farm animals, get all our respect

(Newser) - In America, a 19-year-old can be arrested for killing a hamster —yet we are allowed to inflict great cruelty on animals kept, not as pets, but for food. That’s because of state laws called “Common Farming Exemptions” that allow the industry, instead of lawmakers, to basically define...

Mark Bittman: FDA Makes Us 'Guinea Pigs' With Frankenfood
 FDA Makes Us 
 'Guinea Pigs' 
 With Frankenfood 
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FDA Makes Us 'Guinea Pigs' With Frankenfood

Mark Bittman: Feds don't think we need labels for genetically engineered food

(Newser) - Had anything to eat today? Congratulations, you're a "guinea pig" in the brave new world of genetically modified food, writes Mark Bittman. What's more, you've got no say in the matter. Lots of our food products already contain GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and more are on the way, but...

Here's Your Acronym for a Healthier Diet: ERF

 Here's Your Acronym 
 for a Healthier Diet: ERF 

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Here's Your Acronym for a Healthier Diet: ERF

As in Eat Real Food, writes Mark Bittman

(Newser) - America's taking baby steps toward eating a diet of real food, writes Mark Bittman in the New York Times. He rounds up a trio developments—the USDA urging people to eat less , Michelle Obama teaming up with Walmart , and Oprah challenging her staff to go vegan for a week. All...

Here's a 'Food Manifesto' for the Nation
Here's a 'Food Manifesto'
for the Nation
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Here's a 'Food Manifesto' for the Nation

Mark Bittman: It includes better food education for children

(Newser) - The US needs a modern version of old-school home ec classes, writes foodie Mark Bittman. "When people cook their own food, they make better choices," he writes in the New York Times . Let's provide food education for kids and cooking classes for any adults who want them, Bittman...

Widen Palate to Reverse Overfishing
 Widen Palate to 
 Reverse Overfishing 
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Widen Palate to Reverse Overfishing

But all's not lost, if we can limit overfishing

(Newser) - Call him a snob, but Mark Bittman prefers wild fish to their bland, farmed brethren—yet at the rate things are going, “by midcentury, it might be easier to catch our favorite wild fish ourselves rather than buy it in the market,” he writes in the New York ...

101 Cool Summer Dishes
 101 Cool
 Summer Dishes 

101 Cool Summer Dishes

Be the star of the 4th of July picnic in 20 minutes or less

(Newser) - With the summer picnic season heating up, Mark "The Minimalist" Bittman of the New York Times checks in with his semiannual list of quick, easy dishes. He calls for fewer tomatoes than you might expect, and many, many lemons. Some high points:
  • "Take cold pizza and lemon. Squeeze
...

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