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For The Love Of Food
by Darya Rose | Oct 21, 2011
For The Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
We have some fabulous reading this week including a dose of reality for the cavepeople in the room, some scary news about the effect of pollution on birth defects, and a TV commercial that makes me want to ride my bike to France.
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Links of the week
- The Five Failings of Paleo <<As many of you know I agree with a lot of the paleo diet tenets, but have been known to criticize it as well. This post sums up my objections brilliantly. (Free The Animal)
- Hitting the Road to Get to Work, and Back <<I love this. I’m a huge fan of the active commute. (New York Times)
- FDA Asleep on the Job? New Study Has Harsh Criticism for How Agency Determined that Gulf Seafood was Safe <<From the new report: “53% of Gulf shrimp samples were above levels of concern for pregnant women.” Nice one FDA, you are now the proud distributor of today’s BS of the week. (On Earth)
- Pollutants Linked to 450 Percent Increase in Risk of Birth Defects in Rural China <<One reason to consider going organic during pregnancy, 450% is a big number. Scary stuff. (ScienceDaily)
- IOM releases tough report on front-of-package labeling <<Excellent analysis of the new food packaging label debate. I hope this gets implemented, though I doubt it will. (Food Politics)
- Is MSG Safe? (Part 1 of 2) <<People ask me about MSG sometimes, and this is promising to be a good analysis. Note: I didn’t link to the full article because it has an annoying auto-play feature. You might want to turn down your volume before clicking over. (Nutrition Over Easy)
- Hold the fries! Men who eat junk food are more likely to be infertile <<Want to test it out? (Daily Mail)
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids Shown to Prevent or Slow Progression of Osteoarthritis <<More good news for fish eaters. (ScienceDaily)
- Pulled Pork & Roasted Tomato Donburi (Rice Bowl) à la Ivan Ramen <<I’m infatuated with Japanese food right now, and can’t wait for my trip to Tokyo in April. Thanks for the preview Fuji Mama!
- Exercise can’t always be this much fun, but it can be enjoyable <<Why doesn’t America have commercials this cool?! (note: hide your kids, hide your wife) Also, the article I link to above makes some good points about exercise. (via Los Angeles Times)
What inspired you this week?
FWIW, couldn’t agree more about the auto-play on the QDT site!!
I know, it’s really bad. I had a bunch of people unfollow me last time I tweeted a link. I’m happier to link to you anyway 🙂
Wow, you have sway. As of today, auto-play videos are gone from QDT!
Wow, amazing. Congrats 🙂
Actually, I’m told (in response to my latest complaint) that the auto-play feature may be turned off by as early as next week!! Here’s hoping.
I like the idea of bicycling France, I’m planning a ride to Santiago de Compostela, this is a traditional pilgrim route from the middle ages starting in The french Pirinees (french Basque region) to the mystical Santiago in Spain, if you want to join…
Thanks for the link love! I’m so excited for you—I hope you love Japan as much as I do!
Thanks for posting the article on active commuting. I just started a run-BART commute from my home in Oakland (or sometimes my bf’s place in Berkeley) to my office in Walnut Creek. I go to the office three times a week, and my goal is to do the run-BART commute all three days, with maybe an exceptions once a month or so. If I keep it up, it will be 18.6-28.8 miles of running a week without any actual “workouts.”
Hell yes!!! Awesome!