Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

Protein in a Veg Diet

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Formerly plus-size vegetarian Jaime Berube explains why you don’t have to eat meat to get your protein needs met

The Clear-Skin Diet

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

By Elizabeth Barker

If you’re still struggling with blemishes way past your teen years, take a look at your eating routine. A report recently published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics indicates that overdoing it on foods high on the glycemic index could leave you more acne-prone, and that shaking up your [...]

Falling in Love with Portland

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Fresh energy, great outdoor access and sunny summers

By Teresa Bergen
Portland is one of those cities visitors fall in love with and immediately start packing to move, with or without a job in sight. Artists, musicians, bike culture enthusiasts, yoga teachers, writers and idealists all are magnetized by the Rose City. When they can’t find work, [...]

Timing Is Everything in Weight Loss

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

By Elizabeth Barker

Those late-in-the-day meals might be messing with your weight-loss efforts. According to a new study from the International Journal of Obesity, people who eat their largest meal earlier in the day may shed more pounds and slim down faster than dieters who save their most sizeable meal for later on.
The study involved 420 [...]

LA’s Most Romantic Restaurant: Inn of the Seventh Ray

Monday, April 1st, 2013

Culinary reinvention at LA’s most romantic restaurant

Great News for Coffee Drinkers

Monday, April 1st, 2013

By Elizabeth Barker

Think twice before kicking your coffee habit. In a recent study of about 400,000 older adults, researchers from the National Cancer Institute determined that coffee-drinking could help boost your longevity.
At the start of the study, each participant was between the ages of 50 and 71, had no history of heart disease or cancer, [...]

Forget Alzheimer’s

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

Save Your Brain with the Sunshine Vitamin

By Elizabeth Barker
One more reason to load up on vitamin D: Recent research shows that a high intake of the sunshine vitamin D may curb your risk of Alzheimer’s disease as you get older. Published in the Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, a study [...]

Evo Kitchen

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Family-owned & organic in the heart of West Hollywood

By Abigail Lewis
Once you’ve been a non-meat eater and then decide, for whatever reason, you’d like to add a bit of meat back into your diet, you may find yourself with a dilemma. Most vegan and vegetarian restaurants don’t serve any meat, and most meat-serving restaurants are [...]

Farmers Market Leftovers

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

Share the Love by Sharing the Food

By Kat Thomas
Growers can estimate, but it’s difficult to predict how many people will actually show up at the farmers market on any given day. Thus it’s not unusual to have leftovers when the last of the customers have trundled off home with their bursting bags of goodies. Hoping [...]

Caught in the Raw Milk Crosshairs

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Victoria Coulter Bloch’s crime was helping an organic farm