August 2012 - Nutrition

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A Culinary Journey Through Secret (and Sometimes Hairy) Ingredients of the Amazon 

Follow this culinary expedition into the Amazon, as they meet with local producers and fishermen and are introduced to the deliciousness of stinging nettles and maniwara ants.

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French PhD Student Gives Up Palm Oil for One Year

If you eat cookies or cupcakes or use cosmetics or shampoo, chances are good that you’re consuming palm oil. It's not a health- or environment-friendly product: in addition to its high saturated fat content, it's also blamed for widespread deforestation in Southeast Asia.

In Strasbourg, France, a PhD student in geochemistry decided to forego all products that contained palm oil for one year. This article and podcast show - it wasn't easy. 

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India's Food Distribution Problem 

India holds the second-largest stockpile of surplus grain in the world, after China. So why are there an estimated 252 million poor Indian residents who are starving?

Related article: As Grains Pile Up, India's Poor Still Go Hungry 

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**Food for Thought**

All the world's nearly one billion hungry people could be lifted out of malnourishment on
 less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the US, UK and Europe.

Source: "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal" by Tristam Stuart - via Feeding the 5K (http://www.feeding5k.org/food-waste-facts.php)