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Cookbooks
New in Cookbooks Candle 79 Cookbook: Modern Vegan Classics from New York’s Premier Sustainable Restaurant $30.00 |
The Best and Worst Cookbooks of the Decade
A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine January 2010 As record obesity rates underscore the need for Americans to adopt more healthful eating patterns, many cookbooks encourage readers to follow exactly the opposite trajectory—with high-fat, meat-heavy meals. Dietitians from the Physi |
A Guide to Healthy Weight Loss
A Guide to Healthy Weight Loss: Three weeks on a low-fat vegan diet gets you on the road to your healthy weight goal Of the many ways to lose weight, one stands out as by far the most healthful. When you build your meals from a generous array of vegeta |
Sublime Vegan Cookbooks Top PCRM’s Best Cookbooks List
Vegan cookbooks The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone and The Conscious Cook by Tal Ronnen were recent New York Times best-sellers. Like Nanci Alexander’s The Sublime Restaurant Cookbook and others that topped PCRM’s best cookbooks list, the popularity of these books shows that Americans want to improve the |
Vegetarian Diets for Children: Right from the Start
Vegetarian Diets for Children: Right from the Start Eating habits are set in early childhood. Choosing a vegetarian diet can give your child—and your whole family—the opportunity to learn to enjoy a variety of wonderful, nutritious foods. Children raised on fruits, ve |
The Five Worst Cookbooks of 2011
A report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine December 2011 Some popular cookbooks of 2011, including high-profile recipe collections from celebrity chefs, encourage Americans to fill up on high-fat, meat-heavy meals, even as the country struggles with record levels of obesity and diabetes. Dietitia |
Doctors List Best and Worst Cookbooks of Decade
WASHINGTON—If you’re looking to eat healthy in 2010, which cookbooks should you avoid? Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, for one, and Bobby Flay’s Grilling for Life, for another, says the Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which advocates a healt |
Agriculture and Health Policies in Conflict: How Subsidies Tax our Health: Agricultural Policies Versus Health Policies
Agricultural Policies Versus Health Policies One way to evaluate how agricultural support programs affect consumption and thus health is to evaluate their impact on price and food availability. However, the relationship between federal subsidies and retail prices of commodity products is complex, in part |
Jamie Oliver, Paula Deen Make PCRM’s Worst Cookbooks of 2011 List
Jamie Oliver wants to revolutionize school nutrition. But one serving of the Meatball Sandwich in his new cookbook contains more fat than a Big Mac. Paula Deen’s new cookbook also makes PCRM’s Five Worst Cookbooks of 2011. Also on PCRM’s list this year are cookbooks by Food Network chefs Guy Fieri, P |
Doctors Pick Five Unhealthiest Cookbooks of 2011
Fat-Loaded Recipes from Jamie Oliver, Paula Deen, Guy Fieri Among Worst Offenders WASHINGTON—Jamie Oliver is on a mission to revolutionize school nutrition, but some recipes in his new cookbook have more fat and cholesterol than many fast-food burgers, doctors say. Jamie Oliver’s Meals in Minutes: A Revolu |
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HEALTH FDA Says Bananas and Orange Juice Are Heart Healthy Companies that sell bananas and orange juice may now extol the heart health benefits of their products with FDA approval, and with good reason. They are rich in p |
Ten Celebrity Cookbooks
A Report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine December 2002 Cookbook Rating System PCRM’s registered dietitians based each cookbook’s rating on three criteria: percentage of healthful recipes (up to 75 points), amount of health and n |
Gordon Ramsay, Trisha Yearwood Make PCRM's Five Worst Cookbooks of 2010 List
Who’s on PCRM’s five worst cookbooks of 2010 list? Gordon Ramsay and Trisha Yearwood—among others—published books encouraging readers to fill up on high-fat, meat-heavy meals. So dietitians with PCRM reviewed last year’s cookbooks and named the worst offenders that are contributing to |
Healthy Basics Recipes
In PCRM’s proposed improvements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, participating grocers must supply basic healthful foods, referred to as “Healthy Basics.” Here are delicious recipes prepared from "Healthy Basics." Always Great Brown Rice Makes 6 1/2-cup servings B |
Paula Deen Makes PCRM’s Worst Cookbooks of 2011 List
Fat-Loaded Recipes from Paula Deen, Jamie Oliver, Guy Fieri Among Worst Offenders WASHINGTON—Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible, chock-full of high-fat recipes that can raise your risk for obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, has been named one of the five worst cookbooks of 2011, in a report released by |
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