Eating Made Easy

The Newest Dirty Dozen

Every year, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) comes out with a Dirty Dozen list: 12 fruits and vegetables with the highest level of pesticide contamination after being washed. They recommend buying organic versions of these fruits and veggies whenever possible, to minimize exposure to toxic and persistent pesticides. Can’t afford organic produce, or don’t have access [...]

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Filed Under: Food News, Nutrition

12 Ways You Can Save the Earth in Your Own Kitchen

Our culture is one of consumption, and its easy to forget that when we dispose of food, packaging, paper goods and other household waste, these things don’t actually go away when the garbage truck comes. Our garbage – and even most of what we “recycle” – continues to exist for hundreds or even thousands of [...]

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Filed Under: Food News, How To, Nutrition

Are Your Supplements Safe?

Just because a remedy is “natural” doesn’t mean its safe. Many natural supplements, herbs, and medicines are actually quite strong, and can cause strong side effects as well as interactions with other medications. Supplements are a tricky subject, because the supplement industry is not regulated by a government agency like our food and drug industries [...]

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Filed Under: Food Myths, Nutrition

Creamy Chocolate Hazelnut Smoothie

In the contest between milk and milk alternatives, I almost always choose the dairy. But sometimes it’s fun to explore and cook with different milk alternatives since they offer so many different flavors and consistencies. Most recently, I’ve been excited about Chocolate Hazelnut Milk, which tastes like a beverage form of Nutella – yum! It’s [...]

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Filed Under: Drinks, Recipes

Sending Love to Boston

While I was studying nutrition at Tufts in Boston, I worked at Abe & Louie’s, the restaurant behind where one of the bombings occurred yesterday. My friends and I would gather in that very spot on Marathon Monday – one of our favorite days in Boston. I am sending all my love and best [...]

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Filed Under: Nutrition

How to Avoid Arsenic in Food

The idea of eating traces of arsenic – or serving arsenic-tainted food to your children – is pretty unsettling. Luckily there are ways you can reduce your family’s exposure to this toxic heavy metal. Here’s how: Prepare a wide variety of grains. Rice is one of the foods that’s most heavily tainted with arsenic (here’s [...]