Samantha Bonar

As we count down the days remaining to enjoy foie gras in California, we should also count our blessings that we do not live in New York City, which has just proposed a ban of large-size sodas. (Or maybe we shouldn't; maybe it is good idea.) The far-reaching ban would......

Could organic food give you good health but a bad attitude? A study published May 15 in the journal of Social Psychology and Personality Science says that people who are exposed to organic foods are more likely to have judgmental thoughts and feelings, Fox News reports. (And they should know.)......

Listen up, kids. Tide is not candy. It's used to clean your clothes. It does not taste good. Proctor & Gamble said Friday that it will be changing the design of its Tide Pods tubs after at least one child was hospitalized for swallowing its colorfully packaged detergent, Reuters reports......

Two greens producers in Salinas have recalled their products due to bacterial contamination. Taylor Farms is recalling its organic baby spinach, and River Ranch is recalling its bagged salads, Food Safety News reports. Random testing by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found Salmonella on a finished package of spinach. Testing......

Those Democrats. They just won't drop that ridiculous "pizza is not a vegetable" thing. Fox News reports that Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat from Colorado, has proposed legislation that would stop pizza being counted as a vegetable in public school lunches. The SLICE (School Lunch Improvements for Children's Education) Act......

We all know corn syrup can make you fat, but dumb too? According to a UCLA study published in the May 15 issue of the Journal of Physiology, regular intake of high fructose, such as that found in corn syrup, can negatively impact memory and learning ability -- in as......

7-Eleven is introducing a new low-calorie, sugar-free Slurpee at its stores nationwide this week. The offering targets women in their 20s who have bought into the whole "skinny girl" hoopla. Right off the bat, we see a couple of problems with this move. One, we weren't aware that anyone over......

Ten California residents have come down with food poisoning -- Campylobacter bacteria infections, to be exact -- after consuming raw milk produced by Fresno County-based Organic Pastures. Raw milk, raw skim milk (non-fat), raw cream and raw butter produced by the dairy have been recalled and are subject to a......

The cure for diabetes might be ... candy? Scientists have discovered that licorice root, the raw material for licorice candy, may be effective in treating Type 2 diabetes, the Atlantic reports. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has identified a group of natural......

Domino's is proud to be the first national pizza delivery chain to introduce a gluten-free pizza crust for their "choice consumers." There's just one little hitch: They can't guarantee the pizza is actually gluten-free. So it's not recommended for those with celiac disease, but rather, only for those with "mild......