Nutrition
A fast-food moratorium raises questions of freedom and fries
By Adaora Udoji, Corey Takahashi, Katherine Lanpher August 13, 2008, 08:07 AM
In a section of Los Angeles, the city council has put a moratorium on new fast food restaurants. The measure is intended to promote healthier lifestyles in a working-class area where obesity is a concern. New York has required calorie labels at chain restaurants to combat obesity — where do government responsibility and personal responsibility intersect?
The latest restaurant trend: Eat now, pay whatever
By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Chelsea Merz July 18, 2008, 08:14 AM
With food and gas prices soaring, eating out has become a luxury. But a growing movement, with its pay-what-you-can policy, is making a trip to the restaurant affordable—and for some, free. The Takeaway talks to Denise Cerrata, a pioneering foodie with civic-minded flair. Five years ago she opened a restaurant that lets people work for a meal or donate whatever they can afford.
A nutritionist's take on the new children's cholesterol guidelines
By John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji July 07, 2008, 06:42 AM
Guest: Dr. Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University
Pediatrics panel suggests screenings, drugs to deal with childhood cholesterol
By John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji July 07, 2008, 06:26 AM
Guest: Dr. Peter Jung, pediatrician, Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas
Hungry for change: Rethinking how the poor get healthy and affordable food
By John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji July 07, 2008, 06:09 AM
Back in the 1960’s, when the middle-class fled the cities for suburban refuge, there was an unforeseen consequence: the ‘grocery gap.’ It’s been widening over the years and as gas and food prices soar it’s gotten harder for the poor to get healthy and affordable food. One man, however, with a very simple plan, is turning this around: Pennsylvania State Representative Dwight Evans.
The end of food
By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Sitara Nieves June 12, 2008, 06:31 AM
The signs are all around us: salmonella outbreaks; riots over food shortages; fears over mad cow disease; water shortages; skyrocketing global food prices. These are portents for the end of easily accessible food. Paul Roberts, author of "The End of Food" and "The End of Oil" sees the potential cataclysm ahead.
World leaders confer in Rome as food prices rise
By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Leo Duran June 03, 2008, 12:00 PM
The United Nations has convened a high-level conference of the World Food Program in Rome to discuss the challenges of climate change, bioenergy and food security amid rises prices. Making an appearance is Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, whose own country faces an inflation rate of 165,000 percent.
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Sheer Genius...everytown should have one and no-one would starve!"by Jen, July 21, 02:19PM
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