Light Green Stairs

Category: Healthy You

  • The Decline of Pink Slime

    Never doubt consumer power. You have only you to thank for taking a lot of nasty beef filler out of the mouths of people! Soon, you may have to worry a little less about the ground beef you buy. Pink slime is in an amazing 70 percent of grocery store…

  • No More Toy Story BPA Soup?

    There may be some hope for Campbell’s Soup Company. It seems they’ve given in to pressure from parents and advocacy groups and made themselves a pledge without a timeline. The famed soup company has said they’ll phase out the use of BPA in their can linings. They say that efforts…

  • Blog Action Day 2011: Food Is a Right

    Food is a right. Everyone deserves food, especially young children who can’t always fight for what they need. Sometimes food gets caught up with war. And the right to food can get trampled. Drought can make famine worse, but it’s not the complete cause. In the Horn of Africa, people…

  • Avoid the Ultimate Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake. Eat at Home.

    Do you ever dine out and feel absolutely sick later? Could it be that you’re eating a slice of cheesecake with 59 grams of saturated fat, a shake with more than 2,000 calories, fries with 930 calories, or a pasta dish with more than 1,500 calories? Uh, most of us…

  • Why Choose Organic Food

    At a Kroger grocery store today my cashier asked me, “What’s the difference between organic and regular?” I explained that organic fruits and vegetables are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides. I also told her that some foods like lettuce and strawberries retain more pesticide residue than certain foods…

  • Carrots ‘N’ Cake Book Review

    I may not have gone on about it recently, but trust me, I’m as big of a dessert freak as ever. Not only do I love the challenge of baking complicated new desserts from scratch, I also love to eat them! Luckily, I’ve tried the strategy of typically only baking…

  • Lemon Chicken Skewers Recipe from Carrots ‘N’ Cake

    Dinner is almost ready! Maybe not just yet, but you might really like this healthy dinner idea from fellow blogger Tina Haupert, who writes over at Carrots ‘N’ Cake. Coming up soon, I’ll post a review of Haupert’s new book, Carrots ‘N’ Cake: Healthy Living One Carrot and Cupcake at…

  • Stop the Fat Jokes on Late Night

    When’s the last time you heard a late night comedian make fun of a fat man? Making fun of a woman for her weight isn’t funny. When a comedian I like makes a Kirstie Alley fat joke, I lose a bit more respect for that comedian. It’s sad. It’s too…

  • Vote for Best of Green 2011

    TreeHugger has announced their picks for Best of Green 2011.

  • Should You Ban Girl Scout Cookies?

    In case you haven’t checked the ingredients lately, Girl Scout cookies contain palm oil. That’s not great for several reasons. Palm oil has more saturated fat than alternatives like canola and olive oil, both of which are more earth-friendly oils. And palm oil plantations are taking away crucial habitat for…