For The Love of Food

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

This week, the final coffin nail for low-fat diets, how to get kids to eat healthier and the truth about food expiration dates.

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Links of the week

• Which Diet Works?  <<I’m not sure why it still shocks people that the quality of your food impacts how its calories impact you, but here we are again. Guess who eats the healthiest… ? (New York Times)
• Kids Who Cook Are Hungrier for Healthy Food Choices <<People often ask me how to get their kids to eat healthier. The answer: cook with them. (ScienceDaily)
• What Do These Expiration Dates on my Food Really Mean? <<The answer may surprise you. (Lifehacker)
• Remember This Every Time the Food Industry Claims They’re Trying to Help <<They’re really just trying to get you to like them so you’ll buy more of their poison. Don’t take candy from strangers. (Weighty Matters)
• District’s needy get fruit and vegetable Rx <<Definitely one of the coolest food and health success stories I’ve ever read. We need more of this. (Washington Post)
• How Junk Food and Sodas Ruin Kids’ Teeth in Developing Countries <<Need another incentive to kick the soda habit? This should do it. (The Atlantic)
• Use This Chart to Determine When Your Favorite Fruits Are In Season <<Very cool, and useful. (Lifehacker)
• What Puts Fat Into Fat Cells, and What Takes it Out? <<This post is really about how weight regulation is inseparable from neuroscience. As you might imagine, I completely agree. (Whole Health Source)
• Moderate Coffee Consumption Offers Protection Against Heart Failure, Study Suggests <<Good news everyone! P.S. It’s not new. (ScienceDaily)
• Cilantro Lime Shrimp <<Simple, healthy and delicious. Triple win!!! (Simply Recipes)

What inspired you this week?