Diet-Related Disease
School meals have begun transformation, but all involved agree that turning this battleship requires commitment, money, will to make it happen
By Jane Dornbusch
The Boston Globe 2010-09-01
Restaurant critic finds that cutting out junk food led to weight loss and helped him regain normal blood sugar levels despite alarming diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes
By Steve Cuozzo
New York Post 2010-09-02
In Massachusetts program to combat childhood obesity, physicians write vegetable prescriptions to be filled at farmers' markets
By Natasha Singer
The New York Times 2010-08-12
Food Safety
Adding fuel to meat safety debate, public health officials link ground beef to illnesses from a rare strain of E. coli; likely source was Cargill, which recalled 8,500 pounds of hamburger
By William Neuman
The New York Times 2010-09-02
Opinion: Industrial meat, egg factories excel at manufacturing cheap food, but evidence shows model is economically viable only because it passes on health costs to public
By Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times 2010-09-02
California-sponsored program greatly reduces salmonella in hen houses but adds pennies to egg costs; regulatory confusion, public's desire for cheap eggs undermine safety efforts
By P.J. Huffstutter
Los Angeles Times 2010-09-01
"Potash, for all intents and purposes, is food."
Hunger & Food Security
Number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to record 41.3 million in June as jobless rate hovered near 27-year high
By Alan Bjerga
Bloomberg.com 2010-09-02
Spike in food prices triggers deadly riots in Mozambique, threatens Egypt's ruling regime's ability to provide masses with cheap bread; spurs demonstration threat in Serbia
The Associated Press; Fox News 2010-09-02
Opinion: Brazil's agriculture system, underpinned by research, capital-intensive large farms, openness to trade, new techniques is worthy of study in face of slow-motion food crisis
The Economist 2010-08-26
Nutrition
Teens who sleep less than 8 hours a night are more likely to eat high-fat diet, study shows; sleep-deprived teens ate more snacks, more total calories too
By Ellin Holohan
Bloomberg; Business Week 2010-09-01
In era of continuing specialization in school curricula, lessons on basic cooking skills - making a pot of soup, setting the table, baking a cake - get left behind
By Amy Scattergood
Los Angeles Times 2010-08-26
$1 million in grants to go to high-poverty schools for starting community gardens that teach about gardening, nutrition and provide produce for school meals, students' families
By Nanci Hellmich
USA Today 2010-08-25
Sports & Performance
Top foods for marathon training regimen: buckwheat noodles, quinoa, yogurt, turmeric, ginger, sardines, tuna, dinosaur kale, coconut water, pumpkin seeds, dates, chia, maca
By Laureb Johnston
Daily News (NY) 2010-09-02
Sales of coconut water, a "recovery" drink, top $50 million; Coke and PepsiCo invest
By Joe Karandy
Time magazine 2010-05-31
Swilling sweet slushie before running in the heat increases endurance, study shows
By Gina Kolata
The New York Times 2010-04-26
Water
Regulators still discovering veins of pollution in groundwater, soil at abandoned chemical factory above Potomac Aquifer, a drinking water source for Delaware
By Jeff Montgomery
The News Journal (DE) 2010-07-25
Tainted groundwater, legacy of Delaware's petrochemical complexes, reaches Potomac Aquifer, which supplies drinking water for those in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey
By Jeff Montgomery
The News Journal 2010-07-25
California's patchwork regulatory efforts leave drinking water tainted by nitrates, the byproduct of nitrogen-based fertilizer, manure, wastewater treatment plants, septic tanks
By Julia Scott
San Francisco Chronicle 2010-05-17