Do you send your child off to school with a home-made lunch? Follow these tips to make the process as “green” as possible.

Any scientific advancement, however marvellous it is, can take on Pandora’s Box qualities if left unchecked. As far as the agricultural industries are concerned, pesticides are helping to feed the world by keeping yields high and prices down. But this is only half of the story. Pesticides are not generally [...]

If you have ever walked down the aisles of your grocery store wondering what exactly a superfood is, you are not alone. It seems like every variety of food these days is being touted as a superfood, making it hard to understand the real nutritional characteristics of this food category. [...]

The foods we choose to consume affect every physiological system within us from digestive to skeletal, and our neurological functioning is also dependent on our maintenance of a healthy diet. Consuming intense amounts of saturated fats, for example, can raise cholesterol levels and inflame arteries—including those in your memory modules. [...]

The young man looked sad as he posed for the newspaper’s photo shoot of him holding his bucket of deep fried chicken parts, AKA KFC. Apparently his appetite was spoiled when his greasy fingers grasped a sinister-looking deep fried chicken kidney. What is the world coming to? Just when I [...]

Two moms and food bloggers recently called on Kraft to remove Yellow Dye 5 and Yellow Dye 6 from its infamous line of cheese dinner products made for North American markets. According to various reports, ingesting synthetic (petroleum-based) dyes has been linked with health and behavioural problems including allergic reaction, [...]

Fish, shellfish and other marine animals have been an important part of the human diet throughout human history, providing vital nutrients and shaping much of our approach to food. The ocean’s incredible diversity has even influenced the evolution of entire societies. Today, as science learns more about how we benefit [...]

Seaweed production is on the rise worldwide, but people in North America have yet to embrace it as a food. That’s a shame, because it’s surprisingly powerful in the fight against water pollution and overfishing. One of the major advantages of vegetarianism from an ecological perspective is that plant foods [...]

Canadians are among the world’s most well-fed people. So much so that they’re wasting billions of dollars worth of edible food a year, mostly coming from their homes. That’s according to new findings released today. The draft report comes from the Ontario-based Value Chain Management Centre (VCMC), and is titled [...]

So you decided to go organic … Brushing aside some of the exorbitant costs, all in the name of good health. But is dishing out the extra cash worth it in the end? According to researchers at Stanford University, it really isn’t. A new study suggests eating organic produce and [...]