At The Cheesecake Factory, the Louisiana Chicken Pasta has twice the calories of the Four Cheese Pasta (2,330 vs. 1,190). At California Pizza Kitchen, even the Quinoa and Arugula Salad has 1,070 calories.
But before May 7, not all customers would have known that.
Why May 7? By that date, chain restaurant menus and menu boards across the country had to disclose the calories in every menu item.
"Very high in fiber," boasts the bag of Smart Sweets Gummy Bears, which have 100 percent of a day's worth of fiber in each serving. What does the fiber that's added to gummy bears do for you? Maybe nothing at all. Here's the scoop on which kinds of fiber do what.
"American adults just keep getting fatter," proclaimed the New York Times headline on March 23rd. "New data shows that nearly 40 percent of them were obese in 2015 and 2016, a sharp increase from a decade earlier, federal health officials reported Friday." True, but that's not the whole story.
Have oversized servings in restaurants distorted our view of what's normal? Scientists randomly assigned 277 people to be served a lunch with either a larger (440-calorie) or smaller (220-calorie) portion of quiche.
The next day, the participants were told to serve themselves a portion from a full, family-sized quiche. (The researchers pretended that the study had some other purpose.)
I've left out pungent ingredients (like cheese, onion, and garlic) in these two super-fresh herb sauces, so they're flexible enough to brighten up almost any dish. Spoon either sauce over fish or chicken. Or toss with vegetables, beans, lentils, or whole grains.
These days, clamshells or bags of fresh—even organic—greens are just about everywhere.
Ever muse about having something other than baby spinach or baby kale or spring mix?
Organicgirl to the rescue. Her pre-washed Good Clean Greens offer a handful of new twists to supercharge your salads.
"Magnum Tubs offer a new, multisensory way to enjoy Magnum Ice Cream that is unlike anything available in the category today," said Unilever (Magnum's parent company) in a January press release.
"The sides of the Magnum Tub are encased in a shell of chocolate, which preserves the iconic chocolate crack that ice cream lovers hear upon biting into a Magnum Ice Cream bar."
Translation: You experience the excitement of squeezing the container to crack the chocolate casing before digging in.
Top 4 cups salad greens with 1 sliced plum or nectarine, ½ sliced avocado, and 2 Tbs. sunflower seeds. Whisk 1 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil, 1 tsp. balsamic vinegar, and 1/8 tsp. salt with a grind of black pepper. Drizzle over the salad.
The more you chop an onion or garlic, the more cell walls you break and the stronger the flavor. The most pungent: minced, grated, or food-processed. The mildest: sliced with a sharp knife.
“Vitamin K2 is crucial for osteoporosis prevention,” claims Mercola.com (which will be happy to sell you a 30-day supply of K2 for $28).
“There are 11 forms of vitamin K,” says Sarah Booth, director of the Vitamin K Laboratory and of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University.
Leafy greens are good sources of K1. The other 10 forms, collectively called K2, are made by bacteria.
“We like to refer to a K2-rich diet as the Oktoberfest Diet,” says Booth. “Cheese, cured meat, sauerkraut. And natto”—fermented soybeans—“is also loaded with K2.”
Is vitamin K essential for healthy bones?