Extras

Can a breakfast food made in an LA kitchen go national without artificial preservatives?
Web Extra: Zen Monkey

Web Extra: Carmen’s Veggie Delight
Carmen Sabaté shows the secrets to making a delicious vegetarian dinner.
Web Extra: Carmen’s Veggie Delight

Thomas Bjorkman is using science to deliver a much fresher broccoli to your table.
Web Extra: Broccoli Man

Web Extra: A Treacherous Landscape
How to tell the difference between foods that are healthy and those that just claim to be.
Web Extra: A Treacherous Landscape

Redesigning the Lunch Line & Buffet
See me, eat me: how the order in which we see foods plays a big part in what we choose to
Redesigning the Lunch Line & Buffet

The Government's Role in Our Food System
Government policies already play a big role in shaping our diet. Should they be tweaked?
The Government's Role in Our Food System

An 11 year-old boy who's gained weight decides to do something about it—and succeeds.
Childhood Obesity

The most harmful aspect of the modern diet may be that it floods our bodies with sugar.
Too Much Sugar

Africans tend to eat a lot more fiber than African-Americans, and have less colon cancer.
The Secrets of Fiber

The path to a healthier diet is really very simple. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael Pollan’s Seven Words

People everywhere have constructed healthy diets from foods they get from nature.
Lessons From Nature

The modern diet tends to be deficient in a class of healthy fats called Omega-3s.
The Healthy Fats We Need

In the South Bronx, where healthy food is hard to find, kids are growing it themselves.
A Food Desert Blooms

Dr. Kellogg and the Crusade Against Protein
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg vilified protein and prescribed bizarre treatments to fight it.