Samantha Bonar

Foster Farms chicken is still making people sick.  Government officials prematurely declared the outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella poisoning that began in March 2013 over in January. But since then, new infections have continued to develop  - most of them in California, where Foster Farms is headquartered. So far the outbreak has sickened more than......

You're twice as likely to get food poisoning in a restaurant than from cooking at home, according to a new study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. That includes getting sick from such lovelies as botulism, salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, hepatitis A and listeria. The group analyzed "solved"......

Wanna lose weight? Eat more chocolate! A new study has shown that an antioxidant in cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, prevented mice from gaining weight and even lowered their blood sugar levels, according to Medical News Today.  The research was conducted by the Department of Food Science and Technology at......

Studies have already shown that coffee helps prevent fatty liver disease and liver cancer. And now there's even more good news brewing. A recent study conducted by researchers in Singapore shows that coffee could help to reverse the adverse effects of alcohol by actually decreasing the risk of cirrhosis. The......

Is Cap'n Crunch staring at your kid in the grocery store? In a study of 65 cereals in 10 different grocery stores, Cornell University Food and Brand Lab researchers found that cereals marketed to kids are placed half as high on supermarket shelves as adult cereals - the average height for children's......

Phusion Projects, maker of Four Loko, has agreed to never, ever sell caffeinated alcohol products again. (They removed caffeine from the beverage in 2010 following complaints.) The "blackout in a can" that specializes in douchey advertising featuring breast-enhanced bikini-clad bimbos, skateboards and palm tree silhouettes is officially joining the ranks......

A Minnesota company that makes peanut butter, cheese spreads and dips and salsas has recalled all its products - yes, all of them - for possible Listeria contamination, according to Food Safety News. Even better, the Parker Farms products were distributed nationwide and sold at places such as Whole Foods, Target,......

The key ingredient in tequila could help fight type 2 diabetes and obesity, according to a wonderful new study. The miracle substance is agavins, a natural form of sugar found in the agave plant. The reason it makes a perfect sweetener is it is both non-digestible and acts as a dietary......

It wouldn't be so bad taking medicine if that medicine were chocolate, now would it? A total of 18,000 adults in Boston and Seattle get to test that idea out. They will be taking chocolate capsules in a study to see if the bioactive chemicals in cocoa beans, known as cocoa flavanols,......

The five-second rule is actually legit, according to a new study by scientists who are laughing that they got research money to test this. The "rule" goes, if you drop food on the floor, it's OK to still eat it as long as you pick it up within five seconds. That is......