In a meeting yesterday I was asked if Serious Eats does anything in the healthy eating arena. My knee-jerk reaction to that question is usually "No, we're more into "delicious" than we are into "healthy." The meeting ended and I went to meet a friend at a Times Square tapas bar. My thin friend ordered a Francesinha, a triple decker sandwich with layers of melted cheese, ham, and chorizo, that came with terrific fries. I had a poached chicken and asparagus salad (alas, the chicken was dry) and ended up sharing the fries and even having a bite of that amazing, fat-laden sandwich that my friend called the perfect hangover cure. Then it hit me. In my own meandering way,...
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Steven Reinberg of the Washington Post reports that two new studies in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine say Americans are eating far less fruits and vegetables than they should. According to a John Hopkins study, 62 percent of participants didn't eat any fruit daily. 25 percent didn't eat any vegetables, and "only 11 percent of U.S. adults meet the guidelines for both fruits and vegetables." Perhaps more troubling, a second study from Queens College compared intakes of vegetables, potassium and calcium from 1971 to 1974 and 1999 to 2002, and found that the diets of blacks has not improved compared to those of whites, numbers "not explained by race differentials in income and education." As one of the researchers...
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