Suzanne Boothby

Watch out locavore lovers, there’s a new generation of farmers’ markets in town. The Slow Food movement is taking it to the next level with the introduction of Earth Markets. Farmers’ markets ...

You may have noticed that summer tomatoes come in all shapes and sizes these days. The variety of small cherry tomatoes to rainbow colors to lopsided oval shapes is all thanks to heirloom seeds. ...

Summer is the time when everyone fires up the grill and enjoys getting together on the patio or at the park. But dietitians from The Cancer Project are urging people to stop putting certain food ...

Americans love affair with ice cream has steadily increased over the years. Each year, consumers indulge in about 48 pints per person—more than any other country in the world. In 1984, ...

The standard American kids’ menu in a restaurant is usually filled with junk foods like French fries and chicken nuggets. But a new voluntary initiative launched by the National Restaurant ...

In the diet world, the secret to losing weight has always sounded so simple. Eat less and exercise more. But many Americans who have tried to consume less and burn more don’t always seem that ...

By now, you have probably heard the term "superfood". It refers to foods that pack so much nutrition and good-for-you vitamins, minerals and antioxidants they have a superhero-like status in the ...

“Just for the taste of it” has been the slogan for Diet Coke, the most popular diet beverage on the market, since the 1980s. The idea was to promote a great-tasting drink without all the calories ...

McDonald's, the world’s biggest fast-food company announced in June, 2011 that it would begin selling sustainable fish certified by the eco-label of the Marine Stewardship Council in all of its ...

In a world of shockingly high rates of childhood obesity and diabetes, some scientists and medical professionals are still concerned about kids getting enough calcium. This argument has been one ...

Robyn O’Brien, a Texas native raised on Twinkies, never expected to be a “real food” advocate. But after one of her four children experienced a severe allergic reaction to a typical American ...

With the growth of health food stores like Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s, along with more than 6,000 farmers’ markets across the U.S., you might be surprised to hear that vegetables are ...

Moms love to talk about what life was like when they were growing up. My mom always said that she would regularly find bugs on her apples. Back then, almost all of the produce was organic. In ...

As the weather heats up, gardens across the country are blooming with plenty. Gardens not only provide amazing summer harvests, but they also act as a place to gather and learn traditions. In ...

The question of paper or plastic bags at the grocery store checkout line has always been a tough choice for conscious shoppers. The politics of plastic bags, also known as single-use bags, has ...

Starting as a rectangle in the late 50s and becoming a pyramid throughout the 80s and 90s, the USDA has finally found a symbol for healthy eating that we can all truly associate with food: a ...

Kids have a lot more choices when it comes to quenching their thirst these days. But doctors are urging them to avoid caffeinated energy drinks and reduce the amount of sports drinks they ...

Old MacDonald had a farm, and on that farm he had chickens, pigs, cows and antibiotics--or so the story should go today on commercial farms. For years, large-scale factory farms have routinely ...

Kathleen Graham is a self-proclaimed green smoothie mama. Every morning she wakes up, makes a green smoothie, puts it in her clear travel mug and brings it with her to the gym. “I’ve seen quite ...

Dairy is one of the most confusing topics in the nutrition world today. We all know the slogan, “Milk does a body good.” The National Dairy Council and probably your mother have told you for years ...

Watch out McDonald’s, there’s a new fast food player on the block. Green cuisine is in—coming complete with sweet potato fries, ingredients sourced from local farms and compostable plates. ...

“Eating fat makes you fat” has been the modern American mantra for many diet enthusiasts. But buzz has been slowly building in the nutrition world about healthy fats. The new dogma says not all ...

In early 2005, Shauna James Ahern was very ill. She required 18 hours of sleep a day, her stomach ached all the time, and she could barely move without severe pain. After many medical tests she ...

Your mom fed you your first meal. From then on, she was 100 percent focused on feeding you the right foods and being an advocate for your health and well-being. So it makes sense that more and ...

"Foodie" is a pretty common term these days to describe a movement of people who live to talk about and experience food. The word was coined back in the 1980’s by Paul Levy and Ann Barr, who used ...

When "locavore" became the word of the year in 2007, it put the entire local food movement on the map. Locavores are people who prefer to eat locally grown and produced foods. Spring is a ...

The diet world has its own roller coaster of ups and downs with headlines singing the praises or the evils of various food groups. Sugar is the latest food back on the chopping block, thanks to ...

You’ve heard it a million times. Eating less meat and more vegetables is better for your body and better for the environment. Raising animals for food creates more greenhouse gas emissions than ...

In the new Wendy’s commercial for its Natural Cut Fries with Sea Salt, the company features happy, healthy, beautiful actors enjoying themselves in a sunny outdoor environment munching away on the ...

While many store-bought baby foods offer convenience to increasingly busy moms, they might be offering too many toxins for developing infants. Swedish researchers have released a new study ...

As farmers markets around the country open for the spring season, one market is literally clearing the air for spring veggies. The weekly Baltimore Farmers Market & Bazaar instituted a no smoking ...

If you knew the calorie count in every dish you considered eating, would you change your eating habits? It’s a question at the heart of new national calorie count legislation passed as part of the ...

The school food movement received a lot of attention when celebrity chef Jamie Oliver started a “Food Revolution” reality TV series in West Virginia. The show returns for a second season on ...