Reading List for November 15-19

1. Getting Ready for Thanksgiving

- "Vegetables for Thanksgiving, Served Natural and Raw" from NYTimes

- "Bow Down to the Medicinal Power of Cranberries" on NPR

- "17 Healthy Thanksgiving Sides" from The Atlantic

2. San Francisco's attempt to ban Happy Meal toys

- "Happy Meal Makeover: How a Healthy Food Coalition Defeated a Fast Food Icon" from the blog Civil Eats

- "Mayor Gavin Newsom Vetoes Fast-Food Toy Ban" from SFGate.com

3. "Is It Time for an Oil Change in the Kitchen?" from NYTimes

"It turns out that stale aromas, pleasant fried aromas and unpleasant scorched aromas all come from oil fragments called aldehydes that are more or less toxic to our cells, whether we eat them or inhale them during cooking. ... Fresh oils, and in particular fresh olive oils, generate the fewest toxic aldehydes. ... Fans of extra-virgin olive oil willingly pay more for its provenance and polyphenols as much as its aroma."

4. "While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales" from NYTimes

"... Dairy Management, which has made cheese its cause, is not a private business consultant. It is a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculture— the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy Management is vigorously promoting. Urged on by government warnings about saturated fat, Americans have been moving toward low-fat milk for decades, leaving a surplus of whole milk and milk fat. Yet the government, through Dairy Management, is engaged in an effort to find ways to get dairy back into Americans’ diets, primarily through cheese."

And the "rebuttal" article from James McWilliams in The Atlantic: "How Journalists Got the Cheese Lobbying Story Wrong"

5. "FDA Bans Mixing Caffeine, Alcohol" from WSJ