Natural Trans Fats Actually Have Health Benefits - There is a difference, and it all comes down to this: any food in its natural state can have nutritional benefits. As soon as we alter it in any way - watch out.

The Green Guide enlightens us on the definitions of ‘natural’ meat labels.

Do you chose free range or organic or brown or whites? Here’s a little primer on eggs and their labels. Remember, as with all foods, you’ll get way more nutrition out of a whole egg than egg parts.

Boston Bans Trans Fats Another major US city steps up to ban trans fats from its restaurants and other food locales. Excellent - but why does each city have to to this, one at a time? I say the country of Canada should go trans-fat free - that would get us back […]

Really? Someone is actually coming out and saying that their recommendations in the past may be contributing to the health issues of the present? How liberating for them! This article specifically talks about the ‘low-fat’ recommendation that has added to our obesity epidemic, but think about all the other ‘recommendations’ that haven’t been the […]

The great people at Green Living at Care2.com have gone it to great detail debating the pros and cons of milk, raw milk, and milk alternatives. This is the alternatives link - from there you can link to the rest of the debate.

This Food Additives article by The Green Guide gives a great little break-down of the most common food additives to be cautious of.

This dictionary and equivalence chart lists many natural sweeteners that can be easily substituted for refined sugar (white and brown) and artificial sweeteners.

This post on Mercola.com contains a great list of websites to educate yourself on where and how your food is grown, and how you can locate places for you to eat in the manner you have decided is best for you.

This post on Mercola.com is some great ‘other side’ opinions and facts to the whole ‘fat makes you fat’ debate. A good read.