For The Love of Food

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

This week learn why banning healthy food is a good idea, industrial chicken will kill us all, and cows are being fed candy instead of corn.

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Links of the week

• Investigation: Drug Resistance, Chicken And 8 Million UTIs <<If you aren’t worried about antibiotic use in livestock and poultry, you should be. (Wired)
• Banning “Healthy Food” From Our Diet <<I love the ideas here. I’m not sure this is the best approach, but I can’t tell you how many people have told me they don’t like “vegetables or healthy foods.” So much of this game is psychological. (Huffington Post)
• Farmers are dealing with corn shortages by feeding cows candy instead <<BS of the week. I mean I guess it makes sense, since most of the corn goes to making candy anyway. (Grist)
• Drop the Pasta, Dad, and No One Gets Hurt <<Are your kids making you fat? If so (no point in kidding yourself), there’s some great tips at the end of this article. (NY Times)
• 30 Minutes of Daily Exercise Does the Trick: Same Effect in Half the Time <<Shorter workouts more effective than longer ones? Interesting stuff here. (ScienceDaily)
• How to Make Summer Your Training Partner <<Really cool new data on training in the heat. (NY Times)
• Entertaining nutrition research: “nutrifluff” <<Hahaha, nutrifluff. We’re bombarded with it. (Food Politics)
• Gender Differences in Fat Metabolism <<Super interesting info on how women store fat. Geeky chicks, you’ll love this. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
• Clear Links Found Between Inflammation, Bacterial Communities and Cancer <<In my opinion, the intersection of gut flora, nutrition and disease is one of the most interesting new subjects in biology. (ScienceDaily)
• Roasted Tomato Corn Soup with Yogurt & Basil <<Summer in a bowl. I love it. (Not Eating Out In New York)

What inspired you this week?