Squeeze Pouches, Kale, Quinoa, and Chaos: Welcome to Social Media’s Infant Feeding Frenzy

The internet's fiercest infant-feeding debate may have a surprisingly simple answer: Purées. Big Food advocates, through legacy brands like Gerber and modern direct-to-consumer services like Little Spoon, offer a range of convenient, nutritionally complete products for the little one’s “journey’ to adult food.

Chinese youth simplify meals into ‘human food’; trend reflects overwhelmed lifestyles

On Chinese social media, people are sharing the latest move they have invented to get by: making human food. The hashtag "human food" has over 5.4 million views on a social media platform. The main ingredients for human food are those commonly seen in salads, such as green peppers, broccoli, mushrooms, corn, beef and shrimps.

Viewpoint: 21 worthless wellness trends inspired by RFK, Jr.’s ill-informed MAHA followers that can harm or even kill you.

According to health experts, people need to stop falling for "wellness" trends like "Looksmaxxing", "MLM diet products," "Chiropractors", "exercises", "extreme workouts" and "carnivore diets" are dangerous fads.

Unsafe Viral Food Trends: Dashboard Cookies

There are some viral food trends involving baking cookies on the dashboard of a hot car. Raw eggs and unheated flour are dangerous ingredients in raw or undercooked cookie dough. According to the USDA, a temperature of 180°F is required to make chocolate chip cookies.

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Highly Enthused is a newsletter, once a podcast, written twice per month by Sophie McComas-Williams and Sophie Roberts. Today's dispatch is written by SoRo. This issue of the Fast Fave is exclusively for paid subscribers. In this edition there are a luxe vinegar, a Swedish feminist literature classic, my favourite Substack for finding new books, my latest trick for getting more fish into our diet and a hefty kitchen chopping block.

Common daily food may slow biological aging in men: study

The study investigated how a diet change and easy exercise regimen affected 48 overweight men between the ages of 50 and 74 over a three-month period in Japan. The men who consumed probiotic yogurt, adjusted their diets and exercised showed a statistically significant reduction in their biological aging by 2.2%.

What Parenting Sons With Severe Food Allergies Taught Me

Hillary Tolle Carter's sons were diagnosed with food allergies when they were babies. Her older son no longer has food restrictions and was able to eat safely at restaurants thanks to treatment. Her younger son was diagnosed with more than two dozen food allergies and needed four doses of epinephrine to save his life. The food allergy community was her support group.

Defining ultraprocessed foods proves ‘challenging,’ FDA food head says

FDA is working on a definition of ultraprocessed foods. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants the agency to release a proposed definition by April. California became the first state to provide a definition last October. FDA is also working on front-of-pack nutrition labeling rule to make calorie and added sugar information prominent.

Squeeze Pouches, Kale, Quinoa, and Chaos: Welcome to Social Media’s Infant Feeding Frenzy
Squeeze Pouches, Kale, Quinoa, and Chaos: Welcome to Social Media’s Infant Feeding Frenzy

The internet's fiercest infant-feeding debate may have a surprisingly simple answer: Purées. Big Food advocates, through legacy brands like Gerber and modern direct-to-consumer services like Little Spoon, offer a range of convenient, nutritionally complete products for the little one’s “journey’ to adult food.

American Council on Science and Health
science
Chinese youth simplify meals into ‘human food’; trend reflects overwhelmed lifestyles
Chinese youth simplify meals into ‘human food’; trend reflects overwhelmed lifestyles

On Chinese social media, people are sharing the latest move they have invented to get by: making human food. The hashtag "human food" has over 5.4 million views on a social media platform. The main ingredients for human food are those commonly seen in salads, such as green peppers, broccoli, mushrooms, corn, beef and shrimps.

News - South China Morning Post
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Viewpoint: 21 worthless wellness trends inspired by RFK, Jr.’s ill-informed MAHA followers that can harm or even kill you.
Viewpoint: 21 worthless wellness trends inspired by RFK, Jr.’s ill-informed MAHA followers that can harm or even kill you.

According to health experts, people need to stop falling for "wellness" trends like "Looksmaxxing", "MLM diet products," "Chiropractors", "exercises", "extreme workouts" and "carnivore diets" are dangerous fads.

Genetic Literacy Project
science
Unsafe Viral Food Trends: Dashboard Cookies
Unsafe Viral Food Trends: Dashboard Cookies

There are some viral food trends involving baking cookies on the dashboard of a hot car. Raw eggs and unheated flour are dangerous ingredients in raw or undercooked cookie dough. According to the USDA, a temperature of 180°F is required to make chocolate chip cookies.

The Lange Law Firm
food_safety
Sweet and tart
Sweet and tart

Highly Enthused is a newsletter, once a podcast, written twice per month by Sophie McComas-Williams and Sophie Roberts. Today's dispatch is written by SoRo. This issue of the Fast Fave is exclusively for paid subscribers. In this edition there are a luxe vinegar, a Swedish feminist literature classic, my favourite Substack for finding new books, my latest trick for getting more fish into our diet and a hefty kitchen chopping block.

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Common daily food may slow biological aging in men: study
Common daily food may slow biological aging in men: study

The study investigated how a diet change and easy exercise regimen affected 48 overweight men between the ages of 50 and 74 over a three-month period in Japan. The men who consumed probiotic yogurt, adjusted their diets and exercised showed a statistically significant reduction in their biological aging by 2.2%.

New York Post
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What Parenting Sons With Severe Food Allergies Taught Me
What Parenting Sons With Severe Food Allergies Taught Me

Hillary Tolle Carter's sons were diagnosed with food allergies when they were babies. Her older son no longer has food restrictions and was able to eat safely at restaurants thanks to treatment. Her younger son was diagnosed with more than two dozen food allergies and needed four doses of epinephrine to save his life. The food allergy community was her support group.

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Defining ultraprocessed foods proves ‘challenging,’ FDA food head says
Defining ultraprocessed foods proves ‘challenging,’ FDA food head says

FDA is working on a definition of ultraprocessed foods. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants the agency to release a proposed definition by April. California became the first state to provide a definition last October. FDA is also working on front-of-pack nutrition labeling rule to make calorie and added sugar information prominent.

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