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Food Politics
1:46 pm
Tue March 19, 2013

Cash Back On Broccoli: Health Insurers Nudge Shoppers To Be Well

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A shopper at a branch of South African retailer Pick n Pay in Johannesburg. Health insurer Discovery offers rebates on health food at the chain to its members who enroll in a health promotion program.
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By Allison Aubrey

Originally published on Tue March 19, 2013 1:49 pm

At $2.50 a pound, broccoli may seem too expensive. But cut the price by 25 percent, and our thinking about whether we should buy it may change.

A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine concludes that rebates on healthy food purchases lead to significant changes in what people put in their grocery carts.

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Food Science
10:30 am
Mon March 18, 2013

Synesthetes Really Can Taste The Rainbow

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A select group of synesthetes can truly "taste the rainbow."
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For Jaime Smith, a synesthetic sommelier, a white wine like Nosiola has a "beautiful aquamarine, flowy, kind of wavy color to it."
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James Wannerton worked with photographers Dominic Davies and Andrew Stellitano to create this conceptual image, which for him elicits the taste of a roast lamb dinner with all of the trimmings.
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Originally published on Tue March 19, 2013 8:23 am

Plenty of us got our fill of green-colored food on St. Patrick's Day. (Green beer, anyone?) But for some people, associating taste with color is more than just a once-a-year experience.

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Author Interview
11:49 am
Fri March 15, 2013

"Salt, Sugar, Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us"

Cover of "Salt, Sugar, Fat" by Michael Moss.
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David Hyde sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Michael Moss to talk about the role that processed food companies play in obesity and the health of consumers and what they learned from tobacco companies. 

Food Politics
5:58 am
Wed March 13, 2013

How To Find A Food Desert Near You

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Food deserts mapped from coast to coast, plus Alaska and Hawaii.
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NPR's new headquarters sits amid food deserts.
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Originally published on Thu March 14, 2013 10:30 am

Want to know where you can't buy fresh, healthful food? The USDA has the map for you.

The feds' new Food Access Research Atlas lets you find out just where it's difficult to buy broccoli or bananas in counties across the U.S. Forget walking to the store in St. Louis, Minn., where most people live more than a mile from a grocery store. Ditto for Hyde, N.C., and Pushmataha, Okla.

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Food Policy
10:00 am
Tue March 5, 2013

Should GMO Foods Be Labeled?

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A GMO ingredients label from a box of Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice Cereal.
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Later this year, Washington state voters may get the chance to weigh in on whether genetically modified foods should be labeled as such. Supporters of proposed Initiative 522 say consumers are owed the information about what's in their food. I-522's opponents say there are no known risks to GMOs, so why label them? We look at the science of genetically modified organisms and how I-522 would affect consumers with professor Toby Bradshaw of the University of Washington and Dr. Michael Hansen of Consumers Union.

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