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From food science to food politics, WellWise offers an outstanding food blog

Food Blog: Balancing Omega-3s, 6s Could Save Your Life

One of the most important things you will ever learn about what to eat and what not to eat is this: If you get the balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in your diet under control, you can expect to enjoy good health. If you don’t, expect the opposite.

Food Blog: Should we be worried about radiation in fish ...

Since the Japanese tsunami and the trouble at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the question of radiation in seafood seems to plague a lot of folks … unnecessarily. The biggest dangers appear to be in our mind.

Food Blog: Choose Healthy Eating

For a nutritionist, understanding what constitutes a healthy diet is fairly straightforward.  Understanding how to help a client make the choice to adopt a healthy diet is more difficult.  Understanding how to facilitate an entire community to choose a healthy diet is one of the more important and pressing challenges of our time.

Food Blog: Scenes from America's Dining Table

Every day in America we hear about healthy eating.  Messages are on TV, in magazines, popular books and all over the Internet.  Do they work?  Let’s look at some typical American stories.

Food Blog: Making Healthy Restaurant Menu Choices

Think you can go to a restaurant and make an intelligent menu choice?  You can usually do a pretty good job as far as taste and satisfaction go.  But when it comes to health and nutrition, think again.

Food Blog: It's Time We Got Pissed Off

Three acclaimed speakers at a recent conference agreed that when it comes to feeding our children nutritious foods and keeping them as healthy as possible (both of which are lacking) we have no one to blame but ourselves. Though there are healthy foods and healthy lifestyle options out there, as parents and adults (supposed models of good behavior), we’ve become spineless puppets.

Food Blog: Why Do We Have Unhealthy Diets?

How is it that so many of us make choices we acknowledge are at odds with our best interests?  The simple answer is: We don’t.  Our unhealthy choices are in fact consistent with our interests at that moment.

Food Blog: Food Labels and Your Freedom of Choice

There are a lot of problems with our food system, from safety to deception. Americans tend to trust government to oversee what we eat, and tell us the truth about it. That is a mistake.

Food Blog: Take a stand, save a farmworker

Did you eat today? If so, you can thank a farm worker. For every tomato and head of lettuce you put in your shopping cart this spring, there is a farm worker in California, Texas, Washington, Florida, Oregon and North Carolina who handpicked it for you. And if the food wasn’t grown organically, there is a good chance a farmworker and a child was exposed to harmful pesticides.

Food Blog: The (Food Label) Scripture 

In the beginning, there were no food labels, only the earth and the sky. But God wanted more, so on the third day He said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.