Traditional Super Bowl food laden with meat and dairy may work if you’re a linebacker hitting the gym constantly and burning thousands of calories a day. But for those of us on the couch, cheering on the teams or watching the ads, chicken wings, beef chili and mozzarella sticks will only help thicken our middles […]

Erin Judge is on a crusade to educate people about the dangers of trans fats, and she’s taking her campaign to the supermarket. The Kennebunk resident, who works at a medical office in Portland, doesn’t just put food products back on the shelf when she reads the ingredients and finds partially hydrogenated oil, shortening or […]

As a runner who is allergic to milk products and wheat, Amy Landry of Portland is always on the lookout for all-natural energy bars that are dairy- and gluten-free. “The problem is that most energy bars are either too sweet or taste like cardboard,” Landry said. But her view of energy bars changed when she […]