Pizza Is Not a Vegetable
So much for good intentions… Is pizza with tomato sauce a vegetable? Apparently yes, according to Congress, which on Monday blocked legislation that would have made school lunches healthier. In their final version of a spending bill that includes planning for the $11 billion National School Lunch Program, House and Senate committee members blocked or delayed major proposals from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that...
Class Action Suit Filed Against BPI Sports Over DMAA
From Courthouse News Service: LOS ANGELES (CN) – A class action claims Florida-based BPI Sports’ bodybuilding and dietary supplements “contain a dangerous amphetamine-like ingredient that poses a serious health risk and has potentially life-threatening side effects.” … “At the time plaintiffs Clint Eskenazi and Camden Brady … purchased and used the products, they were unaware the products...
Quote of the Day
I got a laugh out of the following response to an MSNBC article: “Are Competitive Eating Contests a Terrible Idea?” PDK wins the internet....
“Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving”
Ok, I’m not planning a vegetarian Thanksgiving… but I still found this array of veggie dishes in the New York Times appealing! Although my holiday menu is pretty much set, there are some recipes there that I’m keen to try – like the curried chickpea salad, coconut butternut squash soup, risotto with pumpkin, ginger and sage, seven-vegetable couscous and the stir-fried balasmic-vinegar carrots. Suffice it to...
A Twinkie-Stuffed Turkey?! Ewwww…
The holidays are fast approaching, which means it’s time to plan menus. Here at Chez Lowe, that means thinking outside the box. We stopped eating traditional Thanksgiving/Xmas dinners several years ago, in favor of more exotic, experimental feasts.* But this is waaaaay too experimental for me… There is an infinite number of recipes and iterations for turkey and stuffing. We can appreciate a new twist on a classic, but the...
From the Department of Duh!
This New York Times article about school soda bans made me heave a long, deep sigh… State laws that ban soda in schools — but not other sweetened beverages — have virtually no impact on the amount of sugary drinks middle school students buy and consume at school, a new study shows. The study, which looked at thousands of public school students across 40 states, found that removing soda from cafeterias and school vending machines...
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