Archive for Nutrition
Got Cancer? Fight Back With Jam and Jelly!
Finally, Some Really Good Food News!
The New Scotsman reported yesterday on some exciting research into cancer and food. Researchers at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich announced that pectin, an essential ingredient in most jams and jellies, is a powerful cancer fighter.
In particular, it produces fragments that attach to galectin-3, a protein that influences [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies XI: The Post-Birthday Edition
You want to make good nutrition choices for you and your family. It’s hard, though, with busy lives and the information bombardment we suffer each day. Especially tough to train kids to eat right in the few minutes contact you get with them each day.
Well, fear not! The Chile Undergound Video Game Nutritional Content Research [...] Read more »
Salmagundi on a Sunday
It’s the weekend, and time for another Salmagundi! From around the world, and maybe right around your community, here are some interesting items:
Disney is hosting a Best Cake Face-Off through their playful, interesting site, FamilyFun.com.
Cook for your kids, don’t let them die drowning in fat…
Cooking is good for the whole family; Five Generations in the [...] Read more »
The Gourmet Chile Pepper and Salsa Festival: Heat, Eats and Margarit-Ahs
After the trek and detours mentioned in my previous post, we finally arrived at the Festival. I knew this wouldn’t be a big event (like maybe ZestFest ‘08), so I wasn’t worred about getting there early and leaving late; we reversed that, actually. With the beauteous & clever Paula Jo out on point (so I [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies VI: McDonald’s In the News
A company as big as McDonald’s must have some truly interesting ideas, and some Really Bad Days. They also have their rabid supporters, and their uncompromising detractors. They’ve even gotten so big they can afford to pay millions over one cup of spilled coffee.
Recently, I’d say the publicity has been going oddly. Not all bad, [...] Read more »
Friday Follies X: The Food X-Files
So the weekend’s upon us, and you want to get out of the house. After all, the honey-do list is overwhelming, the kids are hanging around now that school’s out, and there’s a whole wonderful world waiting for you out there. Of course, with gas prices like they are, you can’t go far, but maybe [...] Read more »

















