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Those wacky Europeans. When a bunch of food additives were linked to hyperactivity in children, the UK Food Standards Agency actually asked that the EU ban those additives , and that UK food manufacturers sign a voluntary ban on the chemicals in effect by the end of 2009. Talk about drastic. All because...

Remember when Alec Baldwin called his own daughter a pig? Who knew it was tough love? Apparently Baldwin thinks all of our kids are fat and the culprit is cheese. Yes, cheese. WTF? You mean this whole time that I've been giving my kids string cheese instead of candy crack I've actually been part...

I can remember the exact day -- the exact moment -- I finished my first Big Mac. I had been trying for years but could never master the enormous burger -- let alone get my wimpy, kid-sized fingers around the thing. I felt a sense of accomplishment then -- and though this probably provides too much of...

I haven't read Natalie Rigel's Winning The Food Fight yet, but I'll be devouring (hee!) my copy as soon as Amazon delivers it. Meanwhile I'm going to have to put my trust, and yours, in the hands of Jennifer McCann's review at Vegan Lunchbox --this is a woman who knows food, and anyone who has mastered...

Ireland is not known for its haute cuisine, despite a recent wave (so I hear) in fresh organic whole-foods cooking there featuring fish and vegetables. I wouldn't know about that, because in my three visits there I've been consigned to pub fare which consists mainly of previously frozen "food" (using...

In what scientists might come to call the "prison effect" or "growing up with two older brothers syndrome," a new study shows that kids who eat in large groups tend to consume more than kids who eat in small groups. Well, duh? If they don't wolf down the meal, someone's going to take it! In essence,...