Nutrition & Wellness
From learning about the health benefits of turmeric to staying up-to-date with the latest superfood trends, discover the best diet tips to improve your health.
Possibility: Mars is rising—in nutrition efforts
From The Intelligent Optimist Summer 2016 The Mars food company will begin telling its customers which of its foods are healthy enough to eat every day, and which should be eaten only occasionally. Healthy eating sounds simple, but it can be tough—and time-consuming—for the health-conscious Read More...
Saving leftovers
Possiblity From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 In 2011 Ben Simon, then a student at University of Maryland, noticed that his school was wasting massive amounts of food, with one dining hall throwing out between 100 and 200 pounds of leftovers every day. Simon started taking the leftover food to Read More...
First of the season
From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 Time to celebrate the asparagus. A fear of hunger is lodged in human beings’ DNA. So it’s logical that creating nonperishable foods was a crucial priority as we evolved. We’re so good at it that today we can eat whatever we want, any time of year. But Read More...
I don't believe in diets
From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 Kris Verburgh knows how you can age well and lose weight, but don’t call him a diet guru. By Marco Visscher Many pages into writing his new book, Kris Verburgh realized the truth. Darn it, he was writing a diet book! This from someone who dislikes diet Read More...
I don't believe in diets
From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 Kris Verburgh knows how you can age well and lose weight, but don’t call him a diet guru. By Marco Visscher Many pages into writing his new book, Kris Verburgh realized the truth. Darn it, he was writing a diet book! This from someone who dislikes diet Read More...
Germany is leading a meat-free, vegan revolution
Eating less meat is a global trend that substantially helps decreasing carbon emissions. According to a recent report, between 2005 and 2014 American beef consumption decreased by 19 percent. The Germans are well known for their bratwursts and schnitzels, but they are also leading vegan innovation. Read More...
Everybody’s friend, The onion is keeping it real
From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 When you bring everyone who wants to work with you to tears, and you still make it into countless dishes all over the world every day, you must be pretty special. The culinary qualities of the onion are indeed extraordinary. You can coax almost any flavor out of Read More...
This fancy food market is localizing produce, and saving "The Last Supper"
Remember this name: Eataly. It's an Italian food market that specializes in bringing only the best of ingredients and fine Italian foods to shoppers eager for locally-made foods. Wherever Eataly sets up shop whether, in New York City or Munich, the company sources nearly all the products from Read More...
Americans eat nearly 20 percent less beef than in 2005
This is good news for the planet and for health care: Americans are eating less beef than they did a decade ago. During that time, they also stopped eating as much pork, chicken, shellfish and whole milk—but not at nearly the same rate of decline as with beef. According to a new report by eating Read More...
Preventing food loss in Africa with these low-tech cooling units
In most of Africa there are no refrigerators. As a result, a third of the food produced on the continent is never consumed. It is a very painful loss for the millions of people in Africa who are food insecure or undernourished. A young IT graduate developed a solar-powered, walk-in cold room that Read More...