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Feast Your Eyes: The United States Is No Longer the Fattest Country
It turns out that the rest of the world is gaining on us. Guess which country is the fattest now?
Lifestyle
What's More Expensive: Farmers' Markets or Grocery Stores?
Two charts that explain why you should consider visiting a farmers' market.
Lifestyle
Do the Math, Eat More Vegetables
When you crunch the numbers, a plant-based diet always wins. Here's more proof.
Lifestyle
The Environmental Benefits of Test-Tube Meat
A new study compares the benefits of lab-grown meat to the real stuff.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: The Atlas of Genetically Modified Crops
Where in the world are genetically modified crops grown?
Lifestyle
Is America's Favorite Vegetable Making You Fat?
A new study looks at how meat and potatoes affect your waistline in the long run.
Environment
1366 Technologies Will Help Solar Reach "Grid Parity"
This cool, if wonky, chart from 1366 Technologies shows just how close solar energy is to the current electric grid costs.
Lifestyle
Chart: How Much _____ Could You Eat on a Dollar?
The gap between the cost of healthy and unhealthy food is widening, so now it's time to bring it back into balance.
Lifestyle
An Illustrated Chart Explaining What's in Season
Want to know what's in season now? Check out this new illustrated, color-coded guide to seasonal vegetables from the folks at Foodstalk.
Lifestyle
A Pork Chart Like None Other
A beautiful and important reminder that your "other white meat" comes from a living, sentient being.
Lifestyle
Charting Our Short Memory for Food Recalls
What's more remarkable than the large-scale food recalls that follow an outbreak of disease is how quickly we forget about them.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: Bumblebee Populations Stumble
It's not just colony collapse disorder. Researchers say there's fewer North American bumblebees, too.
Lifestyle
Some ADHD With those Froot Loops? Food Coloring Makes Kids More Hyperactive
The color of food signifies flavor and nutritional quality, but what if those colors are contributing to ADHD in hyperactive children?
Lifestyle
How to Make Bacon at Home
Michael Ruhlman explains the steps for curing pork belly into bacon in your own kitchen. It takes a week, but it's worth it. Here's how.
Lifestyle
What You Think About Ethnic Foods is Wrong
These diagram prove how little many of us know about ethnic food.
Lifestyle
Chart: What Food Prices Have to Do With Egypt's Protests
World food prices appear to be surging and that could be playing a role in North Africa's ongoing turmoil.
Lifestyle
Chart: How Much Meat Is on a Blue Whale?
A look at the size of whales versus cattle illuminates an odd double standard when it comes to killing animals. Should we re-evaluate what we eat?
Lifestyle
Chart: Affluent Eating More Fast Food
The more you charge on your credit card, the most fast food you eat.
