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The truth about gluten

The truth about gluten

February 21, 2018

Why I went vegan

Why I went vegan

February 14, 2018

Tips to get you on your way to healthier eating habits

Tips to get you on your way to healthier eating habits

November 8, 2017

Sugar you don’t know you’re eating

September 13, 2017

Factory farming and ethics

Factory farming and ethics

November 30, 2016

Gluten free diet requires careful shopping

By Liz Dwyer

February 13, 2013

Filed under Archives, Arts & Living, Food & Drink

This past week I finally decided to try something I have been dying to do for a couple months: going on a gluten-free diet. Gluten-free diets are a growing trend in the United States. Gluten is the protein that is responsible for keeping the elasticity in doughy products and is m...

Maintaining healthy nutrition at school

By Karen Podorefsky

February 6, 2013

Filed under Columns, Opinion

After a couple of weeks back at school, some find that their diet starts to get lazy. You are going from class-to-class and you need to grab something fast, so it is easy to go for the quick comfort foods or something you can...

Super-salad me

By Tim Jones

February 6, 2011

Filed under Columns, Opinion

Call me the Morgan Spurlock of the UMass crowd, only substitute McDonald’s with vegetables, and 30 days with seven. That’s right, for a whole week, I went vegan. In an attempt to broaden my culinary horizons, I thought it would be interesting to live my life as a veg...

This column is fat-free

By Matthew M. Robare

November 28, 2010

Filed under Opinion

Well, now that Thanksgiving is over, most of us will be left struggling with those vital questions of how to stay in shape during the holiday season. Turkeys are, after all, over 50 percent pure fat – they don’t call them...