Mapping America's Eating Habits

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• Lifestyle

  

  Another Reason Not to Eat Processed Food?

  In the ever-growing list of reasons to avoid processed food-a list that includes obesity, ADHD, heart disease, diabetes, and so on-you can now add...

  by Siobhan O'Connor +

• Lifestyle

  

  Post of the Week: Feb. 14-19, 2010

  This week's most popular post is Mapping America's Eating Habits by Andrew Price. Each map takes a look at a different aspect of food culture in...

  by GOOD +

• Lifestyle

  

  How Diets Affect Weight Around the World

  Approximately two-thirds of the United States' adult population is overweight. This is because, on average, adults in the United States are...

  by GOOD, Always With Honor 2

• Lifestyle

  

  Food Kills More People than Smoking and Alcohol

  Dr. Jay Parkinson, who you may remember from issue 13, thinks we need to stop pussyfooting around the issue of obesity in America. In a recent...

  by Zach Frechette 1

• Lifestyle

  

  Swine Flu Stew

  Can your food choices help make you more healthy? Vietnamese pho is next to godliness. Fresh noodles, steaming amber beef broth, and herbs. The...

  by Peter Smith 1

• Business

  

  Should Restaurant Receipts Have Nutrition Information?

  A company called Nutricate is selling a new, patented receipt for restaurants and other "foodservice operators" that includes the nutritional...

  by Andrew Price 3

• Lifestyle

  

  Where Bars Outnumber Grocery Stores

  It's another fun map. This one shows, in red, the parts of the country where bars outnumber grocery stores. And that's in the Midwest. Here's...

  by Andrew Price +

• News

  

  Why Does a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?

  Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac? Part of the reason is that a huge proportion of our food subsidies go to meat while only 0.37...

  by Andrew Price 2

• Environment

  

  New Report on Meat Industry and Climate Confirms Old One: It's Bad

  When talking about the environmental effects of industrial meat industry, people often refer to a 2006 U.N. report that concluded that cattle was...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Lifestyle

  

  No More Fast Food at Nato Bases

  The BBC reports that Nato is shutting down fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut and Burger King in its Afghanistan bases: "This is a warzone, not...

  by Andrew Price +

• Lifestyle

  

  Eat at Home, Save the World

  Cathy Erway talks about why she chose to not eat out. New York has more than 20,000 inspected restaurants and over 3,000 food carts. There's at...

  by Peter Smith 1

• Lifestyle

  

  How Much Do We Spend on Food?

  Since 1949, the rise of industrial, processed food meant Americans could spend less on their meals. But those savings come with a high cost:...

  by GOOD +

• Lifestyle

  

  Monsanto Bad for Livers as Well as Livelihoods

  It looks like Monsanto, the agricultural company that chokes farmers financially, is also hurting our kidneys and livers. The company makes...

  by Andrew Price +

• Environment

  

  A List of Foods by Environmental Impact

  We've all heard that going vegetarian is better for the environment. But how much better, exactly? In the chart below, from The Oil Drum, you can...

  by Andrew Price 2

• Environment

  

  How Can We Feed Everyone?

  This video (below the jump) investigates why one in seven people is malnourished, how food dependency affects the poor, and how we can make sure...

  by Andrew Price +

• Environment

  

  The Funny Problem of Food Fraud

  How do you know that your pinot noir is really from 2004? Or that the wild salmon you ordered wasn't actually farmed? You don't. The Washington...

  by Andrew Price 1

• Lifestyle

  

  Is Yogurt Really That Good for You?

  Are probiotics a prescription for glorious guts or just a gimmick? Until his death in 1916 at the unremarkable age of 71, the Nobel Prize-winning...

  by Peter Smith 1

• Environment

  

  Up Next: Peak Phosporous

  We're all familiar with the idea of peak oil-the point at which our oil production will start declining forever. But that's not the only thing...

  by Andrew Price +

• Business

  

  The Seed Industry's Scary Consolidation

  This chart from Phil Howard at Michigan State University shows how three chemical giants, Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, have come to...

  by Andrew Price +

• Lifestyle

  

  Trying to Win Your Heart (Attack)

  Just in case you were worried that with all this talk about biking and healthy eating America is losing its je ne sais quoi: The owner of the...

  by Andrew Price +