About Seafood

April 22, 2009 Washington Consumers interested in shopping for seafood often dont realize they probably already buy sustainably managed fish. Worldwide focus on sustainability has highlighted the su...

Apparently some lawmakers in Texas think they know better than doctors, dietitians and researchers when it comes to how to educate sensitive subpopulations about the trace amounts of the naturally occ...

This week NBC Nightly News is finding that details matter. When journalists use vernacular where scientific specificity is called for or unresearched statistics they once heard in place of the most u...

Regardless of what you have planned this weekend, clear a meal - dinner tonight, lunch tomorrow, Sunday brunch...whatever it takes - for Seared Scallops with Champagne Risotto. I made it last n...

Our friends tell us a lot about who we are. Here's an example, Jackie Savitz over at Oceana is now on Twitter. She's a well known environmental activist who doesn't obscure the causes she supports or...

As I started to get hungry for lunch today, I scanned the pantry and egg noodles caught my eye. I decided to concoct a "tuna steak stroganoff" dish, which turned out well. So here's the "recipe," min...

Alcohol consumption and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in healthy men and women from 3 European populations
Authors: Romina di Giuseppa, et al.
European Collaborative Group of the IMMIDIE...

It hasn't been two hours since we told you about the Mercury Policy Project's (MPP) proposed letter to the FDA and already the group is shopping around a significantly toned down version of its rhetor...

Wheedling distortion and stale, stifled, outdated scientific thinking like a weapon Michael Bender, the one-man-band who makes up the Mercury Policy Project (MMP), appears to have set his sights on hi...

My dear college friend, Stephanie, was visiting from Texas the last several days, and we had a ball. We took a surf lesson... and swam in a cage surrounded by wild sharks... but maybe ...

Do you remember as a kid looking at the picture of a toy on the box and then opening it and finding it didn't quite match the sell job created by the artist's conception? I distinctly remember being a...

I just got my favorite newsletter in the mail, the Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter. And, as is consistently the case, there are a few articles about the benefits of eating seafood. The most interesti...

Lloyd was out of town all last week for work; hence the lack of real meal making that took place here. He got home over the weekend, so now we're back on track. Last night we made Sicilian-Style Pasta...

Since February of '08 we've been warning U.S. grocery stores about the perils of engaging with Greenpeace (aka the 500 pound 5 year-old) on issues of sustainability. American stores have their own sea...

I've had two nice long jogs this week in preparation for a 10k I'm running on Saturday, so when I woke up this morning, I was ravenous. Cereal with fruit wasn't going to cut it, but I still wanted so...