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The GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Go Vegetarian

For the month of June, we're all going to try and eat less meat. Join us!

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GOOD Challenge Update: Apparently I Can't Give Up Processed Foods

I tried to not eat industrially processed food for a month. I failed. Should I blame poor planning, kakonomics, or faux-nostalgic Culinary Luddites?

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U.S. Obesity Epidemic Now Requiring Fatter Crash Test Dummies

The super-sizing of all forms of American transit continues apace, in response to the country's obesity epidemic.

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How Can We Keep the People Who Harvest Our Veggies Healthy Too?

It’s nice to think of the people who grow our food as hale and hearty folk who get plenty of fresh air and exercise. "The typical reaction is...

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GOOD Asks the Experts: Is The "Paleolithic Diet" Really Better?

Should we try to eat like an early hominin? And what did our evolutionary ancestors actually eat, anyway? GOOD talks to four experts.

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Feeding the Tiny Humans of the Future: Amsterdam's Disproportionate Restaurant

A new restaurant explores the way genetically-engineered one-and-a-half foot tall humans might cook, eat, and farm.

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Infographic: A Century of Meat Consumption

A 100 years' worth of data reveals a beef decline and a chicken boom, and also raises the great egg debate—are they meat or not?

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St. Patrick's Day Inquiry: Do Monkeys Get Drunk?

In honor of one of the most prolific drinking holidays, it's time to reexamine the evolutionary basis for your bender.

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Feast Your Eyes: What Are French Schoolkids Having for Lunch?

While America's students eat corn syrup and cardboard, French students get organic endive salad and fillet of salmon with a lemon sauce.

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Feast Your Eyes: Bug Farming for Food, an Animated Introduction

What will it take to persuade Westerners to dial back our burger addiction in favor of bug farming? This new video animates our dilemma.

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Feast Your Eyes: Video Tour of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Truck

Jamie Oliver has unveiled his brand-new Food Revolution truck, complete with 8 kitchen stations and an inflatable stage.

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The Food Gods Speak: Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser Dish About Walmart, National Security, and Chicken Nuggets

When Pollan last ate a chicken nugget, whether Schlosser thinks that Walmart's new healthy food initiatives are for real, and what you and I can do.

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Dietary Supplements: Wednesday, February 9

Dietary Supplements is a daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Today it's all about health, plus a slice of geological cake. Enjoy!

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The GOOD Challenge: Give Up Processed Food for a Month

For our second GOOD Challenge, we're going to try giving up processed foods for a month. But what are "processed foods" anyway?

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The Week in Both Self-Evident and Counter-Intuitive Food News

People with children eat worse, heavy drinkers exercise more, and nearly everyone eats five fruits and vegetables a day, in their heads.

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Salt Crystals, Stevia, and the SunChips Bag: An Interview with PepsiCo's Derek Yach

PepsiCo's Derek Yach discusses how his company is redesigning food at the molecular and the agricultural scale—and why.