School Lunch at the White House – ...

White House Executive Chef (and mom) Cristeta Comerford shows Amy Boshnack from CafeMom’s The Stir how to make healthy, affordable school lunches following the My Plate nutritional guidelines. This lunch includes chef salad in a pocket, veggie dippers and fruit kebobs with honey yogurt dipping To see...

What Super Bowl calories cost in terms o...

HEALTH & FITNESS BLOG What Super Bowl calories cost in terms of exercise February 2, 2012 5:50 am By Pamela Reinsel Cotter You’ve heard it before: Super Bowl Sunday is the second-biggest food-eating holiday in the U.S. behind Thanksgiving. Charles Platkin, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, and editor of DietDetective.com, has come up with a clever way to demonstrate just how much we’re consuming as we cheer on our favorite teams: THREE FRIED MAC AND CHEESE BALLS = RUNNING 249 FOOTBALL...

Howard Dean to help kick off Shape Up RI...

y Pamela Reinsel Cotter Howard Dean, former Vermont governor as well as a physician, is coming to Providence Saturday, Feb. 4, as part of the kickoff of Shape Up RI, a program aimed at improving health through nutrition and exercise. The event goes from 10 a.m. to noon at the Providence Public Library Auditorium, 150 Empire St., Providence. Shape Up RI Founder and Chairman Rajiv Kumar will also speak, and participants will be eligible to win prizes in the free raffle, including a brand new bike bicycle worth more than $400. During the program, participants compete on...

McDonald’s scraps controversial be...

            (CBS News)Celebrity chef and food activist Jamie Oliver is a man on a mission: to stop the use of what he calls “pink slime,” beef scraps no one would choose to eat, reprocessed and repurposed for use in hamburger patties.           To see more…   Celebrity chef and food activist Jamie Oliver is a man on a mission: to stop the use of what he calls “pink slime,” beef scraps no one would choose to eat, reprocessed and repurposed for use in hamburger patties.   It is,...

EPA: Brayton Point emits more carbon dio...

Jack Foley Brayton Point power plant sits across the Taunton River from Fall River’s South End. By Grant Welker Herald News Staff Reporter SOMERSET — Brayton Point is by far the worst emitter of greenhouse gases in New England, according to a new list released by the Environmental Protection Agency. The coal-fired plant has been outfitted with more than $1 billion worth of new equipment to comply with existing and pending environmental guidelines since owner Dominion bought it in 2005. But in the data released this week, the Somerset plant...

Betty White turns 90: What are her secre...

Betty White just turned 90 and is going strong — what can we learn from her life? (Angela Weiss / Getty Images)  January 19, 2012, 1:23 p.m. Betty White celebrated her 90th birthday this week, and the veteran actress is still going strong. Between appearing as Elka Ostrovsky in the TV Land sitcom “Hot in Cleveland,” working with animal organizations and winning awards, she is one busy woman.We figured she must have some secret to living a long, full and productive life that the rest of us need to know. So we talked to Howard...

The Fifth Annual Fall River Fitness Chal...

The Fifth Annual Fall River Fitness Challenge kicked-off at the Matthew Kuss Middle School in Fall River, MA, with over 600 people attending and over 300 weighing-in for the four-month series. Sponsored by the Diabetes Association, Inc. (DAI), Community Development Recreation (CD-REC), the Fall River YMCA, General Fitness and Healthy City Fall River, and supported by Partners for a Healthier Community, the Challenge offers low cost opportunities for those who live, work or attend school in Fall River to get fit, lose weight, have fun and win prizes. For more information...

SEMAP’s TEDx Viewing Party & ...

“The goal of “Changing the Way We Eat” is to create new synergies, connections and collaborations across disciplines, to unite different areas of the food movement and to introduce the TEDx audience to the exciting and innovative work being done in this field.” – TEDxManhattan.org FREE EVENT! Join SEMAP as we host a live webcast of the TEDx conference, “Changing the Way We Eat”.  The conference will stream live all day in conjunction to great discussion on local food and farming in Southeastern MA.    Plus this event will be host to our first...

Obesity weighs on SouthCoast...

Photo 1 of 1  |  Zoom Photo + Compared to the state as a whole, obesity — and related conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol — has struck SouthCoast particularly hard.The Associated Press By ANIKA CLARK aclark@s-t.com January 19, 2012 12:00 AM On the heels of a national report showing rates of obesity appear to have leveled off, local professionals say SouthCoast’s weight problem remains as big as ever. Asked how often he sees obesity in his patients, family physician Dr....

All that stress is shrinking your brain,...

All that stress is shrinking your brain, new study finds Everyone knows stress can cause headaches and sleepless nights. But a new study suggests it can actually shrink your brain. We’re not talking run-of-the-mill stressors here, like a looming deadline or a missed bus. “These are bad things happening, like a relationship breakup, loss of a loved one, being held at gunpoint,” says Yale neurobiologist Rajita Sinha, senior author of the new report. Simply feeling stressed-out was not linked to gray matter shrinkage. But feeling stressed-out combined with a history of...