Stress and heart disease
The appeal of fast food restaurants is usually convenience before quality. The Mac-Daddy of all in-and-out food joints, McDonald’s, appears to be trying to change that.
Linda Bladholm’s A Fork on the Road: Online-Only Recipe
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Girl Scout cookies cut trans fat from recipes
Girl Scout cookie lovers everywhere can now feel a little bit better about purchasing their favorite snack — all eight brands of cookies are newly free of trans fats.
Technique could yield materials to replace petrochemicals and more nutritious edible oils
Using genetic manipulation to modify the activity of a plant enzyme, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have converted an unsaturated oil in the seeds of a temperate plant to the more saturated kind usually found in tropical plants.
Eating Out Choices
If last week’s news that some restaurant fare can have more than a day’s worth of calories and fat has left you with indigestion about what to order, find some relief in today’s Lean Plate Club column . Check back to the Lean Plate Club page later this week for our new resource list of restaurant…
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