For The Love of Food

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

Great reading this week. There are 1,001 reasons industrial food will kill you, but I also found a few great videos with DIY cooking tips. There were also a few decent science stories in the LA Times.

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Links of the week

• FDA urges less antibiotics in meat <<I too urge less antibiotics in meat. ‘Bout time the FDA took a stand on this issue. Boo to industrial meats. (Los Angeles Times)
• Added sugar may be the mystery ingredient causing hypertension, researchers say <<Why am I not surprised by this? Salt is bad, but sugar is worse. (Los Angeles Times)
• Silly Putty ingredient found in McNuggets <<BS of the week. Yet another reason to avoid industrial meat. You don’t feed these to your children do you? (BoingBoing)
• Quick Deviled Eggs <<The title here is deceptive. While it is indeed a fantastic video recipe for deviled eggs, the best part in my opinion is his lesson about mayo. Hint: what he uses is completely healthy. (Ruhlman)
• Taking Public Transit Might Help You Stay Slim <<In my experience this is right on. When I started walking a few extra blocks to work each day, I mysteriously dropped 5 lbs without even trying. (Medline)
• Food Dyes Linked to Allergies, ADHD and Cancer: Group Calls on US to Outlaw Their Use <<I’m beginning to wonder. Is there anything in industrial food that isn’t poison? Maybe some water. (CNN)
• Phys Ed: What Exercise Science Doesn’t Know About Women <<Fitness dogma tends to ignore differences between men and women, but the science suggests male and female metabolisms differ greatly, particularly when it comes to exercise. (New York Times)
• The questionable claims about resistant starch <<Good breakdown of the current state of the science on resistant starch, not that you’re thinking about trying a new fad diet. (Los Angeles Times)
• DIY – How to make a cherry pitter out of a fork <<I was way more impressed with this than I thought I’d be. Enjoy!

What inspired you this week?