Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living
Got the blues? Unhealthy eating may only make things worse.
Twinkies flew off the shelves after Hostess announced bankruptcy in November. However, the iconic snack cake is about to return to a store near you.
Fair concessionaires pour fryers-full of creativity into developing the greasiest and tastiest snacks imaginable. Here are some of our 2012 favorites.
The Walt Disney Company has decided to stop carrying junk food ads aimed at children, making it the first company of its kind to do so.
Is junk food really cheaper than healthy food? The USDA says it depends how you do the math.
A new study has looked at children's diets as a means of treating ADHD. Can avoiding junk food really affect hyperactivity?
You can lead the students to healthy food, but you can't make them eat.
A new report, "Apples to Twinkies," finds that taxpayers are spending billions on junk food subsidies and only a fraction on fresh food subsidies.
Down with candy bars, long live the carrot sticks! Healthy vending is being introduced as an alternative to the usual fat, sugar and salt-laden junk foods.
The push to ban the use of food stamps for sodas has been defeated by the USDA.
Americans throw away 1.4 billion pounds of trash every day, 40 percent of which is packaging that's only used once. One grocery store is hoping to change that.
This just in: junk food is addictive. But researchers claim our brains consider junk food as addictive as drugs.
Move over, potato chips! If the manufacturers of baby carrots have their way, their product will be the new junk food.
Will eating all that processed food end up lowering your toddler's IQ? A new study seems to think so.
A new study found that children 2-18 get 40% of their daily intake from fat and sugar — putting them at risk for obesity and other diet-related illness.
Skeptics are eating their words. Junk food is out of school vending machines and carrots are in.
Author Janet Poppendieck joined us to discuss school lunch policy reform and history, and how society is impacted by the federal school lunch program.
Author Janet Poppendieck joined us to discuss school lunch policy reform and history, and how society is impacted by the federal school lunch program.
A new study found that the term "junk food junkie" is really quite accurate - junk food cravings are similar to a drug addict's craving for their next "fix"
Annie Corrigan is the producer of Earth Eats, and an announcer and producer at WFIU Public Radio. Learn more »
Daniel Orr is a professional chef, restaurateur, blogger, and author of a number of cookbooks. Learn more »
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