Brunch has become more than just a meal. It’s practically a cultural phenomenon. The Cheesecake Factory, Macaroni Grill, and TGI Fridays have been cashing in on the trend. Among the…
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At a Greek or Middle Eastern sandwich shop, should you order the gyro or the falafel? Gyro is a blend of lamb and beef, the falafel is fried chickpea patties.…
True enough. Almost any chicken or turkey burger is leaner than one made of “regular” (30% fat) ground beef. Regular ground beef has 230 calories and 6 grams of saturated…
Pad Thai is wildly popular. Most people have never heard of Pad Pak. Which of these easy Asian dishes is better?
Pad Pak—stir-fried vegetables with chicken, shrimp, or tofu and a small side of rice—wins, hands down. That’s because Pad Thai— rice noodles, shrimp, bean sprouts, egg, tofu, and crushed peanuts—is such bad news.
At Pick Up Stix, for example, the Chicken Pad Thai has 670 calories and 2,110 milligrams of sodium. At Pei Wei, the calories for this most well known of Asian dish (even for the Vegetable & Tofu Pad Thai) hover around 1,500, and the sodium rounds to a hard-to-believe 5,000 mg—enough for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Most people know that calcium is good for bones, fiber is good for constipation, and iron is good for blood, to name a few. But once you go beyond the basics, the picture gets murky.
Here’s a healthy food quiz (questions and answers included) to see how well you know which foods or nutrients can prevent or promote which diseases.
Feel free to cheat. The questions aren’t really a test of how well you read (and remember) every issue of Nutrition Action. They’re just a sneaky way to get you to look at the answers, which contain a wealth of information on how your diet affects your health.
Nothing says summer like the smoky smell of a grill full of meat and veggies. As the grilling season heats up, it is important to use proper grilling techniques to create a delicious, safe meal. Read on for healthy grilling tips to keep your cookout food safe and delicious.
Tyson Fresh Meats of Dakota City, Nebraska, is recalling 16,000 pounds of ground beef that were shipped to a New York distribution center because the meat may be contaminated with…
“Sponges are usually the dirtiest thing in the kitchen and difficult to keep clean,” says microbiologist Manan Sharma of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland
NSF International offers good reason to know how to sanitize a sponge; in a recent survey of U.S. homes they found 77 percent of the sponges and dish cloths contained coliform bacteria, 86 percent had yeast and mold, and 18 percent had Staph bacteria. NSF International is a non-profit agency that sets safety standards for water filters and other equipment.
Despite Americans’ longtime love affair with steaks and burgers, we’re slowly giving up our red-meat habit. Consumption of beef has declined steadily since its heyday in the 1970s. We ate…
Romano’s Macaroni Grill seems to be targeting an overlooked minority: the underweight. Why else would it call its new pizzas Fatbreads? “The anti-flatbread, for crust lovers,” says the menu. “Fat on…