It’s not easy to name a sausage company. The chances of bad puns and innuendos, as you might imagine, are pretty high. So when husband-wife team Scott McIntosh and Ana Marin first launched their sausage company three years ago, they named it 13th Street Meats after the street where they live. Dodge City, American Ice Company, Boundary Stone, and others all carried their […]
The University of Cambridge is looking for the next Willy Wonka.
Or, more precisely, the storied university — which counts among its alumni Stephen Hawking and HuffPost’s own Arianna Huffington — wants a student for its new “multidisciplinary PhD o…
Zentan chef Jennifer Nguyen has parted ways with the Donovan House’s Japanese restaurant. Nguyen took over the kitchen in the spring of 2013 after celebrity chef Susur Lee, who opened the restaurant, split with Zentan. Jacque Riley, publicist for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, sent Y&H the following statement: Chef Jennifer Nguyen has left Zentan to pursue other […]
It can happen fast. One minute, you’re indulging in a small piece of chocolate; the next, you’re surrounded by empty candy wrappers — and still craving more. The cycle of unhealthy eating can be a vicious one, but registered dietician Rebecca Scritchfield says there’s a simple way to stop it before it gets out of hand.
Speaking with #OWNSHOW about unhealthy eating habits, Scritchfield points to one particular ingredient that tends to enhance rather than satisfy our cravings: sugar.
“Sugar actually lights up the pleasure and reward center of our brain, the same way if someone’s giving you a smile or a mother-and-child bond, even falling in love,” Scritchfield explains in the above video. “So, it makes perfect sense [that] when we eat sugar, we want more of it.”
Your initial craving for sugar, she says, begins when you start to feel stressed. “When we’re stressed out, we have a high level of a hormone called cortisol, and we crave sugar because if we eat some sugar, we will actually get another hormone called serotonin, which is calming and relaxing,” Scritchfield says. “It’s just our body’s way of taking a chill pill.”
But what about artificial sugar? Does it satisfy or just make you crave the real thing? Scritchfield says the jury’s still out.
“In some studies, they’re showing, look, if you eat foods with artificial sweeteners, you’re expecting to get sugar, [and] when you don’t get it, you’re not satisfied, so you just want more,” she says. “But then other researchers refute that… I think it’s more of a personal preference.”
As for her own personal preference, Scritchfield opts for the real thing. “I’m all for regular sugar,” she says with a smile. “But in moderation.”
Following in the footsteps of his boss Mike Isabella, Kapnos chef George Pagonis will appear on the next season of Top Chef. Set to premiere Oct. 15, the Bravo show will take place in Boston this year. Prior to Kapnos, Pagonis spent time at Graffiato and Zaytinya (where he first worked under Isabella) as well as Aureole in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A unit of Hain Celestial Group Inc. is recalling some peanut and almond butter because of possible salmonella contamination.
The company said Tuesday that there have been reports of four illnesses that may be related to the nut butters. They were sold under the brand names Arrowhead Mills peanut butters and MaraNatha almond butters and peanut butters. Also being recalled were some lots of private label almond butter from grocers Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Kroger and Safeway. A total of 45 production lots are affected. They were sold in Canada, the Dominican Republic, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates as well as the U.S.
The Lake Success, New York, company said it learned of the contamination risk after routine FDA testing.
The Food and Drug Administration said it did not know how many jars of nut butters were recalled. The company would not comment.
Typical symptoms of salmonella infection are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. These symptoms generally develop within one to three days of exposure to the bacterium and may last for up to a week. While anyone can become ill from exposure to salmonella, health officials say the risk of infection is particularly high for children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems.
There have been several major salmonella outbreaks in recent years, including infected peanuts that sickened more than 700 people in 2008 and 2009 and Foster Farms chicken that is linked to a strain of salmonella that has made more than 500 people sick over the last year and a half.
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