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My Favorite Healthy Eating Blogs & Resources (what are yours?)
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I don’t know the exact numbers, but something like a gazillion of you have asked me for a list of my favorite healthy food and science websites.
Back in the day I used to keep a running blogroll, but it took too much work to maintain and there are politics (and lots of email spam) involved in having a whole page of Summer Tomato dedicated to promoting other sites, so I decided to do away with it.
But questions keep coming from people wanting to know where I find all the stories for my Friday link love posts, my preferred alternative to a permanent blogroll. The unfortunate answer is that I subscribe to an extraordinary number of blogs (you’d probably cry if you saw what I go through every Thursday), and there are too many sites and I edit the list too often for it to be useful for most of you.
That said, I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t have my favorites.
Sadly one of those favorites, the news feed at Food52 (formerly Food News Journal), recently decided to hang up the towel and stopped sending out their daily food links. It was an amazing resource and I’m totally heartbroken. But as a result I’m also now looking for a few more excellent food and health news feeds to supplement my weekly reading, and I need your help.
Below I’ve shared my favorite sites and resources, in no particular order, that I rely on regularly for top-quality content. Though I subscribe to many more than are listed here (and I still get a lot of content from Twitter, Digg, etc.), these are the ones that consistently provide share-worthy content on the web and I would never post on Friday without flipping through them first. I respect these sites tremendously and am looking for more publications of this caliber to add to my collection.
If you think there’s anything I can’t live without, please leave it in the comments and I’ll check it out. Thanks in advance for your help!
Health & Science News
Science Daily – Health and Medicine
New York Times – Health
LA Times – Booster Shots
Health Blogs
Nutrition Over Easy – Monica Reinagel
Weighty Matters – Yoni Freedhoff
Whole Health Source – Stephan Guyenet
Raw Food SOS – Denise Minger
Dr. Weil’s Daily Blog – Andrew Weil
Mark’s Daily Apple – Mark Sisson
Green Blogs
Food Safety & Politics
On Food – Mark Bittman
Food Politics – Marion Nestle
Marler Blog – Bill Marler
Grist – Food
Healthy Recipe Blogs
What are you reading?
You might take a look at this food safety site: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/
More health blogs to consider.
Consumer Reports Health blog: http://news.consumerreports.org/health/
New York Times Well blog for health: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/
For Health issues from a business point of view: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/
From Scientific American Health: http://www.scientificamerican.com/health-and-medicine
Hi,
Thanks for all of the most important info that you can be sharing.
I have a food blog called http://www.cookalkaline.com. Feel free to check it out. It focuses on an alkaline diet vs a highly acidic one.
Sari
Other (Free) Healthy Recipe Sites:
Paging Dr La Puma: http://bit.ly/fAlwMr
ChefMD: http://ChefMD.com
Chop-Chop: http://www.chopchopmag.org/recipes
Food and Health: http://foodandhealth.com/recipes.php
(disclosure: I created the recipes on the first two sites).
i read 4 of your listed ‘health’ blogs regularly! even have the MDA app on my phone! people thought i was crazy in 2009 for eating real, whole foods and getting all primal on them but it was the best decision i ever made. exercise is no longer a chore because i don’t really ‘formally’ work out more than 2x weekly. my diet mostly takes care of my looking ‘fit’ so to speak.
take home message, i wish more people would experiment and see how much better their day to day lives, relationships, digestion & overall mental outlook could be just by nourishing themselves properly!
p.s. LOVE denise! as a fellow scientist, i know logging through data takes time but wish she would post more regularly!
hi Darya,
i have a suggestion, its http://www.ted.com.
its a great site that shares scientific ideas, iv just watched a video by Dr Daniel Wolpert, titled “The real reason for the brain”, he puts it down to movement.
I just added this site to my Google Reader list:
Food Freedom: http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/
a blog devoted to those articles that address food safety, food freedom–the right to choose your own food or farmer, and food sovereignty. I am going to give this a good look on a regular basis.
For healthy food blogs, I go to whatwouldcathyeat.com for heart healthy recipe ideas. Same for http://www.smittenkitchen.com.
I’d recommend http://www.fooducate.com – the whole concept is just genius! They just need to get to Europe asap
Great list!
Have you come across any good blogs other than Tim Ferriss’s “Experiments in Lifestyle Design” blog (which I am already addicted to) that talk about his nutritional ideas in the 4HB?
BTW… I am 50:04 into your video on healthy veggie diets… very comprehensive and responsible… I really appreciated the balance especially… thanks again for the link
I definitely agree about Mark’s Daily Apple. I thought it was really interesting last week when he discussed how rice isn’t necessarily bad for you as long as you stay active.
I also like http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/ which has lots of great recipes.
Great prevention website
It helps if you give the website-http://crazysexylife.com/
http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/family-nutrition/
Summer Tomato is my favorite healthy eating blog. =]
And AJ gets the gold star for the day 😉
for gluten free recipes http://thehealthyapple.com/ and vegeterian recipes from the middle east http://food.lizsteinberg.com/
Thanks !
Near the top of my list would be
1. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/
2. http://blog.fooducate.com/
3. http://garytaubes.com/
I write http://ironyofbaking.blogspot.com and it’s about eating healthy, wholesome and family friendly recipes, and life’s ridiculousness. Please check it out!
I read yours and 101 Kitchen 🙂 But since you shared yours, I am going to browse around them 🙂 Thanks Darya!
I like Bruce Bradley’s blog at http://www.brucebradley.com/
He used to work for some food company and his posts are all about how Big Food companies try to get you eating more and more processed food.
I enjoyed my first visit to your blog. Came across it searching for healthy eating information and got a ton of it. I’ll be back often and will share with friends at http://www.facebook.com/sofiacooks
All your links are excellent! Thanks so much! This is not a blog but the articles on this site are definitely worth a look: http://hippocratesinst.org/archives
Great collection! But the Sprouted Kitchen link is broken.
Actually, I myself own a health blog, it’s about [link removed] chronic hives treatment.
My favorite health blogs though are Zenhabits and 2knowmyself
Great Blog. I’ve just stumbled upon it and I’ll be checking more often
Hi, Darya!
I saw your tweet about nomnompaleo, and even though I’m not following a paleo lifestyle, I’m so grateful that you connected me to that resource. She has some fantastic recipes!
Since this post was written, if there have been any additional blogs or books that you have encountered and enjoyed using for recipes, I would so appreciate it if you could please share them. Thanks again for everything!
I don’t cook from recipes (Kevin does, he bought the cookbook), but I try to share one every Friday in my link post.