For The Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
In case you missed it, I just started a new mythbusting column over at the ZocDoc blog, where I’ll be publishing new articles every Tuesday. Check out my first piece Is Microwave Cooking Dangerous? Fact vs. Myth.
There were some very thought provoking articles this week, and I especially recommend Bittman’s piece on local food and elitism as well as the Treehugger piece on dietary fundamentalism. Great stuff.
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Links of the week
- Local Food: No Elitist Plot <<I’ve been meaning to write something similar to this, but Mark Bittman does a fantastic job. A great read. (New York Times)
- How Low-Fat Foods Get Their Texture <<A brief explanation of some of the stranger ingredients in processed foods. (NPR)
- Is Eating More Often Really the Key to Staying Thin? <<Thanks Monica for calling BS of the week for me on the notion that eating more often helps with weight loss. (Nutrition Over Easy)
- Ending Factory Farming Requires Also Ending Dietary Fundamentalism <<I absolutely love this thoughtful piece about why being militant because of your personal food choices is counterproductive. (Treehugger)
- Resveratrol appears to make fat men fitter <<This is interesting, but I would definitely not recommend starting a high dose resveratrol supplementation regimen at this stage of the research. (Los Angeles Times)
- Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science <<Though I really do not like the title (it’s the sugar, stupid), this is actually a really interesting article about how processed foods can hijack the brain like addictive drugs. (Businessweek)
- The psychology of food aversions <<Though this was clearly written by a scientist (not the best prose I’ve ever read), it’s an interesting exploration of the psychology behind food aversions and I like his tips at the end. (CNN Eatocracy)
- Does High Circulating Insulin Drive Body Fat Accumulation? Answers from Genetically Modified Mice <<Very sciencey, but fascinating stuff, if you’re into that sort of thing. (Whole Health Source)
- ROASTED SWEET POTATO AND BLACK BEAN SALAD <<Looks delicious, cumin and lime is a wonderful combination (though I would leave out the fructose-laden agave nectar). (Chez Us)
What inspired you this week?