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Whole Foods: Dark Organic Lord Or Green Guiding Light?

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S.F. Research Hospitals Say 1-2 Cups of Booze a Day Keep the Doctor Away

Those of you who woke up this morning in the bushes of McLaren Park in a post-St. Pat's haze with strange clothes on your back, strange phone numbers written on your extremities, and the taste of yesterday's Irish Car Bomb on your lips -- take heed. A group of San Francisco scientists have published ... More >>

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Those of you who woke up this morning in the bushes of McLaren Park in a post-St. Pat's haze with strange clothes on your back, strange phone numbers written on your extremities, and the taste of yesterday's Irish Car Bomb on your lips -- take heed. A group of San Francisco scientists have published ... More >>

My Body, My Self

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

Scared Healthy

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

I'd Like to Buy the World a Hyphy

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

Weight Loss/Smoking Cessation/Substance Abuse

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

McRibbing

A man eats fast food for a month -- guess what happens

Weight Loss|Smoking Cessation|Substance Abuse

A man eats fast food for a month -- guess what happens

The Weight-Conscious Gourmet

Local chefs reveal how they -- and you -- can eat out often and well, without tipping the scales

Resuscitate Your Resolve

Local chefs reveal how they -- and you -- can eat out often and well, without tipping the scales

Best Neighborhood Market With a Social Conscience

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As a Matter of Fat

The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

Eight Drinks That Give You the Energy of a Rapper

Janine KahnClick here for a full rapper energy drink slideshow.Even with all the vibrant energy contained in hip-hop, sometimes people need an extra little kick in order to take in the multitude of offerings the culture has to give. That's why rap-branded energy drinks are a good synergy of lifestyl ... More >>

Good News For Your Prostate: You Can Have Your Omega-3 Fatty Acid And Eat it Too

UCSF researchers have taken this off the prostate blacklistAnyone creating a videogame football roster from scratch knows how it goes: You make him strong, he's going to be slow; you give him speed he's going to be easily tackled; you give him arm strength, he's going to get busted mid-season for a ... More >>

Lotus Vodka Filled with Life-Giving Vitamins ... and Cirrhosis-Causing Alcohol!

UCSF researchers have taken this off the prostate blacklistAnyone creating a videogame football roster from scratch knows how it goes: You make him strong, he's going to be slow; you give him speed he's going to be easily tackled; you give him arm strength, he's going to get busted mid-season for a ... More >>

Even Plain, Movie Popcorn is Grossly Fatty. But You Knew That

Love popcorn? After reading this, maybe not so much. The Today Show is offering up news many movie-goers might already suspect: Even without "butter," theater popcorn is way far from healthy. New lab results from the Center for Science in the Jonathan!/FlickrSooner or later, it'll kill you.​P ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Flax-Oat Bread from Vital Vittles

​ A weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the steamed, the artisan and the novelty.Flax Seed-Oat BreadSource: Vital Vittles, available at grocery stores around the city.Price: $4-5, depending on the storeToast-appropriateness: 10/10

City's Anti-Obesity Soda Ban Won't Affect Obesity

Not on city property you don't, Mean Joe...​Gavin Newsom's executive order forbidding soda machines on city property from hawking sugary soda is interesting for three reasons. One, the next photographer to snap a shot of Baby Montana with a soda is famous. Two, it warrants mentioning that Newsom d ... More >>

Happy Meals May Be Banned By San Francisco

You guys -- out of this city! ​The moment your humble narrator heard that legislation was introduced at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting aiming at regulating how nutritious a meal must be for a restaurant to be permitted to hand out a toy, I thought "This must be Eric Mar's doing." Yup.&nb ... More >>

Meatless Filipino, Vegan Halloween Candy, and Slutty Pets

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Did you know it's World Go Vegan Week? I bet you didn't because all you care about is the Giants. Well, that's okay. Assuming the team comes back to San Francisco to finish up the Series next week, AT&T Park ha ... More >>

Oliveto Leads the Hunt for Honest Whole Wheat Flour

Civil EatsCommunity Grains' flours and polentas are available via wholesale only, at least for now.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. We all know whole wheat, right? Brown, rusky. It bakes up into clammy Birkenstock breads you eat because they're good for you until you develop a taste for t ... More >>

Why Are Companies Still Adding Eggs to Veggie Burgers?

Ben Sutherland/FlickrPut down that Quorn burger, vegans, and just walk away: It contains egg whites. ​When you're throwing a party and thinking of your vegan guests, what food do you automatically think of? Veggie burgers and hot dogs, right? When your vegan BFF shows her adorably picky face a ... More >>

Café Oliveto's Whole-Grain Pizza

John BirdsallCafe Oliveto's Napoletana, $15, with a crust made from authentic whole-wheat flour.​Thursday, November 18, 2010 Oliveto chef Paul Canales has been playing around with whole-wheat flours lately, in collaboration with Certified Foods. That's the stone mill in Woodland, northwest of ... More >>

Non-Turkey Turkey Day, Mad Men's Pussycat, Shark Fin Creepiness

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • For 28 days concluding in November 2010, an HSUS investigator worked inside a Cal-Maine factory egg farm in Texas, and documented a bunch of scary-ass abuses. The vast majority of eggs that Americans eat come f ... More >>

Nog-ocado, Natalie's Footwear, and Piling onto Noah's Ark

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. Over on the PPK, vegan goddess Isa Chandra Moskowitz posted a recipe for a vegan nog that includes avocado. I don't know 'bout all that but the lady is super talented so it's probably the tastiest. Try it and repo ... More >>

The Year in Food: Vegan Goes Mainstream

Jun BelenLunch plate at Oakland's No Worries, featuring afritada (right) made from soy "chicken."​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. In 2010 vegan food exploded ― all over our faces, deliciously. Sorry, that image is gross, but really: It was ... More >>

Taking on Mother Jones, Veganizing Sandwiches, and More Mainstreaming!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • The SF Vegan Bakesale is BACK! After being rained out in December, the vegan deliciousness is back for another go! So far, sunny skies are predicted for Jan. 15, so let's all go and eat and eat and eat and eat ... More >>

How the Happy Meal ban explains San Francisco

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • The SF Vegan Bakesale is BACK! After being rained out in December, the vegan deliciousness is back for another go! So far, sunny skies are predicted for Jan. 15, so let's all go and eat and eat and eat and eat ... More >>

The Power of Oprah, the Stupidity of 'Meat Week,' and ― Eww ― Vulva Cake!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • So, Oprah's Tuesday episode was dedicated to veganism ― and meat-eating issues in general ― and it's pretty much the only thing vegans could talk about all week. I mean, she IS the big O and so yeah, celebr ... More >>

Russell's Super Nuggets, Meat-Mouth Conversions, and Rad Drinking!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. adria.richards/FlickrDear Russell: We forgive you for the whole RushCard thing.​• New mac 'n' cheese restaurant Homeroom is opening in Oakland the day after Valentine's Day. Who gives a shit, right? YOU DO! ... More >>

Sure, Chickens Get Sad ― Maybe Because We're Eating So Many of Them?

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Scientists just discovered that chickens show empathy. To science I say, NO DOY. But also: Way to come around, better late than never. I remember when I discovered that eating too fast gave me pain in the chest ... More >>

Obama Writes a Book, Macarons Are Trending (Again), Paula Deen Explains All

​​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The First Lady gets a book deal. According to the Washington Post, Michelle Obama just signed a contract to write a book about the White House garden and healthy eating ― an ... More >>

Veggie Burgers Elevate, Charcuterie Loses the Meat, Baloney Stays Shady!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Hey! AOL's City's Best interviewed me and I reveal things like my favorite snacks! Since I'm so fascinating, you will probably want to read this/tell me to go to hell. Whatevs! • This song debunks vegan myt ... More >>

Arrested Vegans Get Vegan Meals in S.F. County Jails

my_southborough​If you're vegan and you go to jail, do you get vegan meals? In a city with a substantial vegan population, this is no trivial question. It turns out that, while the law does not require jails to provide vegan options, S.F. County jails do serve vegan meals on request, and we've ... More >>

Not-Completely-Healthy Japanese Veggie Snack Shop Opens at Westfield

Calbee's new store outside the Westfield Food Emporium​Calbee, the biggest snack food company in Japan, is opening its first overseas retail store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre, where it will be selling a new line of BeeMee vegetable snacks. Calbee claims that its vegetable sticks are ... More >>

America Keeps Getting Fatter, but We're Now Eating Less Sugar

​We hear it so often that the fact has become white noise: Close to one third of all Americans are obese, and the percentage keeps rising. Is the culprit high-fructose corn syrup? Happy Meals? Coca-Cola? Nintendo 3? According to the LA Times, Americans may be cutting down on one of those culprits ... More >>

Vegan Fight! Activist Doesn't Want PETA Getting Credit for Vegan Meals in Jail

takver / flickr​Last month, SFoodie discovered that if you're vegan and you go to jail in S.F., you can get vegan meals. Eileen Hirst, Chief of Staff at the Sheriff's Department, told us that vegan food in S.F. County jails came about because of vegan PETA protestors who were arrested in anti- ... More >>

Bacon Gives You Diabetes and Cheese Is Killing the Planet!

​ • Have you seen these (not actually) hilarious Velveeta ads that try to fool people into thinking that Velveeta Cheesy Skillets aren't made of processed food-product and chemical death? First off, I don't want anyone to ever complain about vegans having a sad or gross diet again. Glass hous ... More >>

Vegan Life Is Impossible, Announces Carnivore Columnist

Erin Stubblefield/Concord MonitorTim O'Shea eats his last vegan meal​We confess that until yesterday we had never read the Concord Monitor. But our omnivorous attention was attracted by the column "My so-called vegan life" by Tim O'Shea, who basically writes what our headline states. O'Shea' ... More >>

Sugar Sues Corn Syrup for False Advertising. No Joke.

Sugar: going on the offensive. Yesterday the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles began hearing arguments over an odd lawsuit filed by a group of sugar producers against a group of producers and marketers of high-fructose corn syrup. The charge? False advertising. Big Sugar is mad that Big HFCS -- u ... More >>

SF Vegans Are More Loud than Numerous

Marin Sun FarmsSan Franciscans as a whole prefer meat to vegetables​We hear from vegans all the time at SFoodie, often at great length, not least because we run Laura Beck's delightfully profane Week in Vegan column. But we've always wondered how important they really are. Not very, it turns ... More >>

Meat and Greet: The Local Butcher Shop

From the Local Butcher Shop's Facebook page​By Katie Fleeman Many conversations in the foodie world involve the V word: vegetarianism. It comes with a number of arguments: it's more sustainable, it's healthier, and how could you possibly eat another living thing? The folks over at the Local ... More >>

McRib is McNasty, Lots of Weekend Fun, and Silk Nog is Baaaack!

​• Vegan R.D. Virginia Messina, put together a list of ten easy steps to help you go vegan. Read it in conjunction with Megan Rascal's 11 Tips for New Vegans, and you'll be vegan, or hate all vegans, in no time. And if you hate all vegans, screw you! And Happy Holidays! • Ecoterre has some cu ... More >>

Vegan Hanukkah, Year End Animal News, and Beyonce is Partially Vegan!?

​ • Beyonce is preggers and so she's eating a vegan diet. Or is it, a partially vegan diet? Which is what EVERYONE ON EARTH EATS. It's like, did you eat anything that wasn't a steak today? Unless it was an egg milkshake, you're partially vegan! Welcome to the club, asshole! • Need some last m ... More >>

Funny 'Cause It's True: More Shit Vegans Say

The popularity of Shit Girls Say has spawned an ungodly amount of spin-offs -- including one perfect for San Francisco, Shit Vegans Say. When vegans are getting in on the action, you might've jumped the shark. Or be ahead of the shark by two days, as us vegans are very progressive. Also, I might've ... More >>

Could a Soda Tax Save Lives?

At 12 cents a can, revenue from a soda tax would add up quickly. ​In April last year, the California state Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation shot down AB 669, Assemblymember Bill Monning's attempt to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on all sweetened beverages, such as sodas, energy drinks, and ... More >>