For The Love of Food

Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.

Many must-read articles this week, including the juice on processed OJ, the truth about factory farming and antibiotic resistance and the latest demolition of our favorite vegan propaganda book, The China Study.

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Links of the week

• Dirty Little Secret: Orange Juice Is Artificially Flavored to Taste Like Oranges <<I discussed this last week on Google+ as well, and I’m still angry about it. (Gizmodo)
• What the USDA Doesn’t Want You to Know About Antibiotics and Factory Farms <<The threat of antibiotic resisistance is one of the biggest reasons I don’t buy (aka support) industrial farms. (Mother Jones)
• My Fit Foods: Losing Weight by Buying Food You Don’t Want to Eat <<BS of the week. This makes me sick, and I recommend the exact opposite approach to weight loss and health. Eat what you love, life is too short. (Dallas Observer)
• One Year Later: The China Study, Revisited and Re-Bashed <<I’m not a fan of The China Study, and what I like about this critique is that it points out dozens of peer-reviewed papers that show the exact opposite of the claims made in the book—most co-authored by Dr. Campbell himself. Makes me wonder how he justifies these contradictions to himself. (Raw Food SOS).
• Train your brain to crave healthy foods <<It seems I’m not the only one who craves salads. Interesting tips here. (CNN)
• All-you-can-eat America: Average weight gain for Britons holidaying in the USA is 8lb <<I guess if you live here you’re totally screwed. (Mail  Online)
• Can chewing more help you eat less? <<In my experience chewing is very effective for slowing down and eating less. Here’s some data. (Reuters)
• How Chocolate Can Help Your Workout <<I expected to be calling BS on this one but it’s actually pretty interesting. Worth a read. (New York Times)
• Some exercise is better than none for lowering heart disease risk <<The previous study shows this too, but every little bit helps. (Los Angeles Times)
• Summer Corn Salad Recipe <<Fresh corn is delicious, and this looks amazing. (101 Cookbooks)

What inspired you this week?

Tags: antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, B.S. of the week, chewing, chocolate, Exercise, factory farming, industrial food, orange juice, The China Study

For The Love of Food

Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.

I’m pleased to announce that I did another guest post, this time over at TwiTip about Twitter and the value of food tweets. I also found some divine homemade pizza recipes, great advice for choosing (and not choosing) smart seafood and an urban legend debunking session. Oh, and I call B.S. on Men’s Health for pretending slightly-less-fattening fast food is “healthy.”

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For The Love of Food

• How To Make Any Tweet Worth Following << My latest guest post (at TwiTip by @problogger) where I discuss the value of tweeting what you eat (on Twitter). Alternate title idea -  In Defense of Food: A Tweeter’s Manifesto. Please retweet!
• How to Make Money on Food Items in the Shape of Religious Icons <<Worth checking out for the picture alone. Hilarious, irreverent entrepreneurship. Does it get any better? (from Serious Eats)
• Eat Healthy at the Airport <<B.S. of the week. Leave it to Men’s Health to redefine “healthy” to include complete garbage. Real airport health food? Nuts, fruit, vegetables, eggs, water. Better yet, bring your own.
• Chew better, stay full longer? <<Great advice on getting more satisfaction from your meals by chewing longer. Courtesy of the Nutrition Diva herself, Monica Reinagle over at Nutrition Data.
• Red Bull’s New Cola: A Kick from Cocaine? <<Apparently Red Bull has traces of cocaine in it, according to Time. Better than fiction.
• Sardines for the eco-conscious <<Wonderful guide to choosing the healthiest, most sustainable fish from Limes and Lycopene (by @kathrynelliott)
• Tastier, Healthier Pizzas <<I altered the title a bit because I do not think the New York Times gave their pizza recipe enough credit. Sure it’s healthier, but what most people don’t understand is that these kinds of pizzas taste orders of magnitude better than typical take out. Seriously.
• All you can eat <<More than you ever wanted to know about where Red Lobster gets their bottomless shrimp. This article is long, but I was enthralled from start to finish (via @sandrasay)
• Chewing gum, spiders and jellyfish stings — all with a dose of skepticism <<The always skeptical Tami Dennis of the Los Angeles Times debunks some urban legends about food and other oddities.
• Daily Delish – Cheer for cherries <<Shout out to the lovely Shannon at The Daily Balance (@thedailybalance). I’ve always known Shannon was awesome, but she topped herself this week by mentioning basketball and cherries in the same post. FTW!!

What links did I miss? Share your faves of the week in the comments.

Tags: B.S. of the week, basketball, chewing, entrepreneurship, guest posts, Los Angeles Times, Men's Health, New York Times, pizza, recipe, Red Bull, Red Lobster, shrimp, TwiTip, Twitter, urban legends