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How to Start a “Do-and-Dine” Fitness Group
Looking to improve the palatability of your fitness routine? Maybe you need a side of social interaction — and a standing date for dinner.
How to Detox Your Life, Save Money, and Change the World
What’s best for our health and the planet can also be great for our bank accounts. All it takes is shifting how we spend our money and our time.
A Brew on the Wild Side
Sometimes the simplest questions can provoke the most complex and unpredictable answers.
A Call for a Real Food Revolution
A U.S. congressman explains how lack of access to real food is at the heart of our nation’s health problems — and what we can do about it.
Nestlé Saying Goodbye to Artificial Dyes
The company is poised to be the first major U.S. candy manufacturer to eliminate artificial food dyes and colors from products.
Hidden Treasures
When it comes to the real value of vegetables, nutrition labels don’t begin to reveal the whole truth.
What to Read Now: The Real Food Revolution
Congressman Tim Ryan launches his new book The Real Food Revolution: Healthy Eating, Green Groceries, and the Return of the American Family Farm.
12 Game-Changing Ideas About Health
12 big ideas that are shifting the way we think about health.
Modern Miracle
Behold the beauty of the midwinter egg. May we never again take it for granted.
How to Run an Ecosystem
My new hobby: aquaponics. This might just be the wave of the future — if we can figure out the finer points.
Cheap Food, Big Bucks
Dreading the little birds-and-bees talk? Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on how telling your kids about food-industry profit margins can be just as awkward.
Why Just Looking at Sugar May Be Bad for Your Health
I’ve heard that simply looking at sugary foods can trigger an insulin response. Is that true?
10 Strategies to Help Give Up a Favorite Food
Deciding to forgo a food you’ve long savored presents practical and emotional challenges — even when you know it’s for the best. Here’s how to make it easier.
Making Friends With Your Food
Pilar Gerasimo on making sensible, sane choices in a food world as nutty and confusing as the one we live in now.
Kitchen Literacy: 10 Must-Have Cookbooks
After years of working in restaurants and cooking at home, James Beard Award–winning food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl dishes on her favorites.
The Ethics of Eating
The implications of our food choices are far-reaching. The quandaries are real. How can we start eating our way to a better world?
Building Kitchen Confidence
EL‘s Heidi Wachter on the surprising rewards of learning to cook.
The Voice: Vani Hari
Activist-blogger Vani Hari — a.k.a. the Food Babe — on why universal access to healthy food is “a basic human right.”
How Real Food Can Help Fight Poverty
U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan explains why food, health, poverty and social justice must be transformed together.
Family Values à la Française
Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on why perhaps it’s time we stopped obsessing about how the French eat, and started emulating the way they live.