Food is meant to nourish, but too often it becomes an addiction, an obsession or, worse yet, an enemy. In this land flooded with over-abundant, overprocessed fake foods heavily laced with sugar, fat, salt and chemicals, but devoid of the nutrition our bodies crave, disordered eating has practically become a national pastime. If you turn […]

Eating local gets a lot of lip service, but according to research done by Mark Lapping, only about 10 percent to 14 percent of the food eaten by the average Mainer comes from Maine. “Right now Maine imports the vast, vast majority of its food and most of it comes in on trucks,” said Lapping, […]

Dr. Kevin Strong knows the public-health community is being outspent and outmaneuvered by the makers of junk food. But he’s not willing to shrug his shoulders and let the hucksters of soda, candy and processed foods win the battle for children’s stomachs and, by extension, the war over obesity. “As physicians and a medical community, […]