Healthy Eating

Here Are Four Food Pioneers Who Just Might Inspire You

Gloomy weather got you down? Need a heart-warming pick-me-up? Check out this video produced by the Natural Resource Defense Council. It highlights the four recent recipients of this year's Growing Green Awards -- an annual celebration of some pretty special food people. One of them you'll know for ... More >>

The HapiFork: A Smart Fork That Gives You a Buzz When You Eat Too Fast

Yesterday the company HapiLabs unveiled the world's first "smart fork" that tracks eating behavior bite by bite. The creator of HAPIfork, Dave Graveline (who, by the way, is a skinny Frenchman), promises that by not eating too fast or too much, we will be "happier." From the HapiLabs Facebook page ... More >>

13 Dallas Spots for Healthy Foods That Don't Suck

Every once in a very long while I like to make believe I have a little something called willpower. And like most other folks on this planet, I get a surge of confidence in my nonexistent willpower right around January 1. See also: Our Best of 2012 Winners Now, I have this thing that tends to ruin ... More >>

DISD Cafeterias are Looking Mighty Svelte These Days. Get Ready to Eat Your Veggies Kids.

Were you a lunch line kid? I was mostly, until Smithville ISD put in a "snack line," which allowed the kids who could afford it to eat pizza and french fries every day, while the others went through the line. In retrospect, it was wrong. Every bit of it. I hope they don't still do that. The scenar ... More >>

Start Restaurant on Greenville Hopes to Start in Early August

Start Restaurant at 4814 Greenville, neighbor to Desporados Mexican Restaurant, is a new upscale fast-casual restaurant set to open the first week of August. The concept is healthy food, made with pure ingredients, quickly. So you can hit the drive- thru, and feel good about it afterwards. Some ... More >>

Deep Ellum Urban Gardens Could be Hours Away from a Big Donation

Dallas girl Lindsey Cook is in a tight race with Mary Edwards from California as the fan favorite in the Aetna Healthy Food Fight -- a fight that could mean a nice influx of cash for the Deep Ellum Urban Gardens. In case you missed it, through a contest at the State Fair, Cook was chosen to go to N ... More >>

Deep Ellum Urban Gardens Could Get a Major Boost from a Local Woman's Stuffed Peppers

​As an avid runner and cook, Lindsey Cook of Dallas loves to create healthy dishes, like her quinoa and turkey stuffed bell peppers. Easy, versatile and full of deliciousness, Cook was so smitten with the recipe that she entered it in the Aetna Healthy Food Fight contest. From there, the dish ... More >>

Dear Food Diary: I Hate You

Maybe they should include simple check boxes for Slim Jims and Doritos.​It's hard to find people who agree with me here, but food diaries are worthless. A food diary is a log of everything you ate, where and who you ate it with and what you were feeling as you ate it, (Everyone who jots down ... More >>

New Culinary Textbook Tells Chefs to Put the Flavor and Some of the Fat Back in Nutrition

​While a new culinary nutrition textbook is geared toward chefs working in professional kitchens, a co-author says the book's advice would be equally appropriate for amateurs charting new diet plans for 2011. "Moderation and variety is the key," says Cathy Powers, a former Culinary Institute ... More >>

Offshore's Nextdoor: Happy Hour Begins at Nap 30.

Five forgotten health foods

​Before the food industry figured out how to leech fat from snacks and pump up beverages with added caffeine, eaters who wanted to lose weight or gain energy had to craft their diets from what they found in their pantries. Here, a guide to forgotten health foods from a century ago.

Roy's Natural Market: So Long to the Man with Wheat Grass Miracles

Roy Beard is closing Roy's Natural Market come August.​Used to get a lot of sore throats, from, well, let's just call it "cigarette" smoking. That was back in the '80s when I, well, let's just say smoked. Invariably, the tickle in my throat would progress to soreness, which would progress to a ... More >>

Domino's Slims Down Pizza for Schools. Yes, Our Culture is Dying.

​No matter how many talented chefs Michelle Obama invites to the White House, or how many vegetable costumes Jamie Oliver dons, it seems unlikely school nutritionists will ever be able to strike pizza from their cafeteria menus. "You can't stop buying pizza for kids," says Sherry Brokenberry, ... More >>

School Lunches: How Can Something That Taste Like One be so Hard to Make?

Low-sodium sauces​Editor's note: Apparently, feeding kids is a lot more complicated than tossing them a box of Pop-Tarts and a 3-liter jug of root beer. Who knew? For the breeders among you readers, here's a wrap-up of newsy, nutritional items Hanna shipped in from the School Nutrition Associa ... More >>

Veggie Guy: Spiral Diner's Faux Meatballs Win National Acclaim

The prized dish.​A recent survey conducted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), ranked Spiral Diner's Sketti & Meatballs among the nation's top ten faux meatball dishes. You'd think the Spiral crew would be doing somersaults and touchdown dances over the news, but these guys ... More >>

Rules To Eat By

​An American style milkshake in part requires a blend that will stand a spoon but can be sipped from a straw without much trouble. Response to last week's ranking of ten different milkshakes, however, suggests some people really don't consider the difference between a milkshake and stirred up ice ... More >>

Wine Rocks

Rock stars plus alcohol can add up to a lot of things. But when you add organic grocery stores to the rock and booze equation, the sum must certainly change, right? Guess we'll find out when Maynard James Keenan makes an appearance at the Whole Foods Market in Plano from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., March 2 ... More >>

Stay Hungry, Live Longer: the Science Behind the Calorie Restriction Diet

An SMU biologist thinks the secret to the fountain of youth may be found by putting fruit flies on a diet.

Want the Greenville Ave. Whole Foods? Here's Your Head Start.

Marc Andres Shines Some Sun on Sunflower Farmers Market Deal

Review: Spiral Diner & Bakery

Spiral Diner & Bakery lets you avoid sins of the flesh

Stealth Health

Barnes & Noble hosts the Sneaky Chef

Hunt on Walking in Dallas, Barking Diners and That Whole Foods Fight

Lovers Pizza and Pasta

Original Whole Foods Moving Less Than a Mile. Might as Well Be a Million.

Baby, You Can Drive My Cart

Whole Lotta Whole Foods

No, Seriously. A Chocolate Fountain.

Whole Foods By Half, More or Less

Sprouts Spouts in Dallas, At Last

AWOL

Whole Lotta Nuthin'

Best Place for Healthful Mexican Food

Baja Fresh Mexican Grill

McRibbing

A man eats fast food for a month--guess what happens

Best Chicken Salad

Whole Foods

Best Turkey Burger

Janine's

Best Dish Name

Square Meal at Dream Café

Tropic of Groceries

Dallas' pent-up lust for exotic foods has finally been met with the opening of Central Market. Will shopping ever be the same? Will our appetites?

Best Health-food Store

Ann's Health Food Center

Best Ice Cream

Out of a Flower

Fat City

Does anybody eat low-fat/no-fat ice cream?

Best health food store (tie)

Whole Foods Market & Roy's Natural Market

Best place to buy juice

Whole Foods Market

Best local tour of the Middle East

Worldwide Food, Inc.

Is 'good for you' ever good?

The 'clean food' at Preston's comes close

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Neander-Guy

Ray Audette hunts with a hawk and eats like a caveman. He says his meaty diet stopped his hair from falling out, cured his diabetes--and will make you healthy too

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