Some articles I have found interesting this week.

Pesticides are damaging babies in utero, affecting their IQ for life.

Could your ground beef be destroying the planet? (Grassfed is way better for your health anyway!)

Interesting correlation between fast food consumption and obesity, but remember: correlation does not equate to causality.

With the recent tornadoes that devastated central Alabama, this guide is very timely.

As someone who instinctively dislikes fad diets of any type, this article is fascinating, but also shaped by the preconceptions of the host site. The article referred to in there is available here and is also worth reading. Please, engage your intelligence and education before jumping on the latest bandwagon diet!

A natural follow on is this article from a Swedish MD. Low fat diets are ruinous to health, and yet medical professionals still follow the same, wrong, guidelines.

The USDA revises safe cooking temperatures for all red meat roasts/joints to 145f/63c plus a 3 minute rest. Temperatures for poultry and ground meat remain the same.

I can’t think of something witty to say about this graphic. It’s appalling.

The Republicans in Congress want to cut funding to WIC. Insanity.

Dutch Jewish groups are facing off against animal activists. Here’s the point: humans are OMNIVORES. Deal with it.

Would you eat meat grown in a lab instead of in an animal? I would at least try it.

What makes bad food so good?

I think Meatless Mondays are a fundamentally silly concept, but not for the reason you may imagine. I think if a change is worth making, make the change: just do it and incorporate that change into your daily life. I am not saying “don’t do it”: just don’t let yourself get bogged down in it. Eat meatless for a week, then eat lots of steak the next 😉

Speaking of meatless: sausage recipes!

Can Mexican beer be something other than “served with lime”? These guys think so.

If this article doesn’t make you feel horrible, I don’t know what will. Hungry children in a western country – what we arrogantly call the “first world” – is an abomination, a national disgrace.

And a nasty juxtaposition with the above is the fact that Americans waste 40% of all the food they buy. Appalling.

Dairy is not, after all, a risk factor in heart attacks. Can we please, finally, lay to rest the myth that dietary fat = ZOMG HEARTATTACK?

No, really – go ahead and eat cheese!

Grilled corn? Yes please!

Granddaughter of the girl scout cookie inventor on why her grandmother would be ashamed today