Diet and Nutrition

Are Supplements Safe? Why Hippocrates Believes Whole Food Vitamins Are Better

What if just about everything you thought you knew about taking vitamins, minerals and supplements turned out to be bogus? What if it was all a scam? According to nutrition expert Dr. Brian Clement, director of West Palm Beach's Hippocrates Health Institute, there can be dangers to supplementing yo ... More >>

Big Surprise: New Study Says Energy Drinks May Be Bad for Your Heart

We all know someone who drinks so many energy drinks that you'd imagine the noxious stuff has supplanted their actual blood. Hopefully, it's not you. Maybe it is.Well, according to research presented at the American Heart Association last week, energy drinks may have negative effects on the heart. W ... More >>

Hippocrates Health Institute: Why Sea Vegetables Are a Valuable Source of Important Nutrients

We all know vegetables are good for us, but what about sea vegetables like nori, wakame, kelp, and dulse? The next time you reach for a sushi roll, keep in mind that the dark green stuff is more than just a pretty wrapper for all that sticky rice and fish. It's also packed with essential vitamins an ... More >>

Celebrity Apprentice's Marcus Lemonis on RawONE, Eating Disorders and the Secret to Success

Marcus Lemonis is a man of many talents. In addition to his status as a self-made millionaire, the entrepreneur and philanthropist has taken turns on multiple reality TV shows, including Secret Millionaire, Celebrity Apprentice and the soon-to-air The Big Fix. Basically, he serves as a business turn ... More >>

Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach: Raw Vegan Eats

Health News is a new feature series that focuses on raw, vegan and alternative diets.Could you give up meat, fruit and cooked foods for life? What if you were suffering from an incurable disease, and it was the only answer to healing your body? The idea of becoming a raw vegan might not seem so craz ... More >>

Looking to Get Healthy: Five New Year's Resolutions to Try

It's about time: the holidays are over. And your body could not be more grateful. The time has come to stop the binge drinking and junk-food eating. Let's be honest: there's a reason new gym memberships astronomically explode after the New Year. After the past month's excess, you're probably feeling ... More >>

The Ultimate Hangover Menu: Rawsome Eats Chef Nina Kauder Tells Us How to Get Rid of a NYE Hangover

Is everything too loud this morning? If you partied so hard on New Year's Eve that your hair hurts, you need to act fast to ensure New Year's Day isn't spent shriveled in a ball on the couch. Clean Plate Charlie has been searching high and low this week to find as many tips and tricks as possible to ... More >>

Broward YMCA Students to School Board: We Want Healthy Food

Students at the Lauderdale YMCA, located inside Lauderhill Middle School, met today to present a healthy eating plan to members of the Broward Country School Board.The students are part of Live Well Lauderhill, a community project that raises awareness about healthy eating.  The students met wi ... More >>

Where to Get a Veggie Burger in South Florida During National Hamburger Month

As Clean Plate Charlie pointed out earlier this week, May is National Hamburger Month. You can read our list of ways to celebrate the occasion here. But if you're not a meat eater, there's no reason to be left completely out of the fun. After the jump, we've got a list of eleven places to get a vegg ... More >>

The Biggest Lie Ever Told About Vegetarians

Vegetarians in all forms -- ovo-lacto, vegan, etc. -- are subject to an impressive array of misconceptions and lies about the meatless lifestyle. Sometimes, the evidence of misunderstanding is overt, like the person we encounter at a cocktail party whose eyes bug when they spot a plate free of slide ... More >>

Where Bill Clinton Should Eat This Week

​When Bill Clinton arrives to talk at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, we're more than looking forward to hearing him speak. We're wondering where he'll stop to eat.What's he doing here? The former President brings his "Embracing Our Common Humanity" tour to our neighborhood where he'll ... More >>

Ditching Vegetarianism? Five Meaty Ways to Sell Out

​When I think back on my golden years in college, I remember all of the good times that I had with strangers friends. Days spent camping out for seats at basketball games, grossly misusing credit cards, and repeatedly surviving untreated alcohol poisoning are all fond memories. I was cool back the ... More >>

Energy Kitchen in Fort Lauderdale Opens Friday

​Attention, health fiends and Meatless Mondayites: Energy Kitchen, a health-conscious concept in which no menu item is more than 500 calories, opens Friday. Does under 500 calories mean healthy? Peruse a McDonald's menu and a slew of items fits that bill: a hamburger (250), cheeseburger (300), dou ... More >>

School Lunch Changes Mean Fewer Animal Crackers and No Canned Fruits

​No more animal crackers for iron at your kid's cafeteria. In the first overhaul of school food in 15 years, all schools must be in compliance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's school food rules by July 1. Florida schools have prepped for the changes by switching control of the school lunc ... More >>

Binge Drinking in Florida? Feds Say Not Here

​The Onion has penned many parodies of this state, including Florida Legalizes Taking Guns to Work; Florida State University to Phase Out Academic Operations by 2010; and 'Ravaged' Named Florida's Official State Adjective. Though it reads like it, this stat is no parody. According to the Centers f ... More >>

Ellen DeGeneres And Portia de Rossi To Open Vegan Restaurant

ABCEllen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi plan to open a vegan restaurant in California​Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have plans to open a vegan restaurant on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, reports The Hollywood Reporter.Other investors include rocker Chrissy Hynde and entre ... More >>

Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde Closes Her Ohio Restaurant, Citing Bad Economy

​Chrissie Hynde closed her vegan restaurant on Sunday, citing a bad economy.  The Akron, Ohio, restaurant was open four years and was voted one of the top five vegan restaurants in America by Business Week.The Vegiterranean served vegan dishes with an Italian-Mediterranean flair. On the resta ... More >>

Fat, Sodium, Calories: Ten Dense Dishes

weheartit.comDoes your food want you to die?​You see them on TV, you drive past them on the way home - chain restaurants that offer food, fun and convenience. We know its difficult to ignore their siren songs of cheap food and menus that weight more than a toddler.  In order to make your food ... More >>

Q &A with Raw Foods Chef Christopher Slawson of Christopher's Kitchen

Photo provided by Christopher's Kitchen Chef Christopher Slawson Raw food has been dubbed as a revolution, a movement, a diet, a trend. But Chef Christopher Slawson is so dedicated to eating raw foods -- or as he calls them, "living foods" -- that he has opened a raw foods eatery, Christophe ... More >>

Vegan Athlete/Vega Creator Brendan Brazier Coming to Whole Foods

​If you still have the image of Rocky Balboa guzzling down six raw eggs for breakfast before heading to a boxing session at the meat-packing plant as your guide to optimal muscle mass, it might be time to get acquainted with Brendan Brazier. As a vegan professional Ironman triathlete, best-selling ... More >>

Michelle Obama and USDA Say Food Pyramid Out, My Plate In

flckr/ Rapid City Public LibraryThis food pyramid is old news. America, it's time for a new food lesson...​ Remember that food pyramid you learned about in grade school and kept seeing around the place? Well, it's outta here. The United States Department of Agriculture has launched a new visual i ... More >>

PETA Names Sublime's Apple Crumb Pie The Best Vegan Pie in America

PETA Sublime's apple pie - delicious and cruelty free.​People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals just named Sublime's Apple Crumb Pie ala Mode the best vegan pie in America. The pie, made with an oatmeal streusel, Granny Smith apples and currants, is totally vegan, as is the ice "cream" ... More >>

"New Times" Cupcake Battle: Q&A With Yvette Sanchez of Skinny Chic Desserts

flickr.com: lamantinThe New Times Cupcake Battle at the 2011 Las Olas Wine & Food Festival begins at 7:30 tonight!  Clean Plate Charlie interviewed owners of the participating bakeries and Skinny Chic Desserts completes our Q&A countdown.We emailed Yvette Sanchez, owner of Skinny Chic ... More >>

Chef to Chef: Q&A With Raoul Valle, Owner of Green Wave Cafe

Photo provided by Green Wave Cafe Over the past few years, there has been a heightened focus on food and where it comes from. Books like Fast Food Nation and Kitchen Confidential have been huge popular hits. If you're having nightmares about where your food comes from and how it's been proce ... More >>

Raw food expo coming to Broward County Convention Center

​If the statement of 'you are what you eat' holds true, then right now I am a warm and gelatinous pile of vegan biscuits and gravy with a handful of Sour Patch Kids clinging to the curvier bits of my exterior. But if I had the discipline, I'd much rather resemble the long and slender stalk of ... More >>

Confessions of a Marlins Cheerleader

Denis BancroftJen the Mermaid​Sure, some of us have been hitting the gym, but unfortunately it takes more than an express session on the treadmill to terminate that spare tire. Baseball season is imminent (Marlins spring training begins February 27 in Jupiter) and I recently had the pleasure of in ... More >>

Six Hangover Cures (Courtesy of Your Local Bartenders)

Photo by Samantha Levine"Woohoo!"​ With so many South Florida drinking establishments serving till the wee hours, it's easy to wrap up a seemingly good night, only to wake up with a nasty banging headache that feels like tiny angry elves are hammering away at your temples rudely reminding yo ... More >>

Q & A with John Lenhard, Chef at Sublime in Fort Lauderdale

Photo by Michele Sandberg​When one of my chefs tells me about a place I just "have to try", I go running. I couldn't wait to speak with John Lenhard, Culinary Team Leader at Sublime in Fort Lauderdale, because my fascination with the vegan lifestyle. I am awed by the ski ... More >>

Vegan Potluck Party and Storytelling at Sweat Records Saturday

​Whether it involves sifting out the gravelish bits of ham hock from "meatless" baked beans or finger flicking the bacon bits from the community salad, holiday potluck parties can be disappointing and dodgy territory for vegans. This is why, if there's ever a time when vegans can ge ... More >>

Q & A with Davionne Dobson of Remnant Affairs Catering: Vegan Catering in Fort Lauderdale and South Florida

flickr: NorwichNutsVegan food can be rich and delicious ​A personal chef is like a life coach for your belly. If it seems like an out-of-reach luxury item, let us introduce you to Davionne Dobson, proprietor of Remnant Affairs Catering. Meals made by the local vegan chef and caterer are a gift of ... More >>

DNA Energy Drink Seeking Spokesmodel

​I was stoked when my editor threw this little gem of an assignment into my lap: Boca Raton-based DNA Energy Drink is searching for Miss DNA 2011, which means that I get to thumb through multiple indexes of relatively attractive women as part of my research process. At least that's the story I'm ... More >>

The Five Most Horribly Fattening Items From Tex-Mex Chains

Photo by Flickr user serlingrod​Hidden in President Obama's health-care initiative is a regulation that requires chain restaurants to begin posting nutritional information on the food. This may seem like trouble for burger joints, but it might be Tex-Mex burrito purveyors that face the most troubl ... More >>

Fast-Casual Tex-Mex Tijuana Flats Rolls Out New Menu

Courtesy of Tijuana Flats​ Burrito lovers rejoice! With their biggest menu roll out in their 15 year existence, fast-casual Tex-Mex restaurant Tijuana Flats welcomes half a dozen new menu options to the South Florida Mexican food-loving masses starting today. All six new items were featured items ... More >>

Top iPhone Apps for Losing Weight After the Holidays

​Happy New Year everyone! Now that the imbibing is done, the holidays are past, and we're looking at the next decade, you might be looking at what you did to over-indulge this holiday season. Let the New Year's resolutions and weight loss promises begin!To help you with your plans to lose the holi ... More >>

NOS Energy Drink: Like an Orange Creamsicle Rollercoaster

​After nearly two solid decades of heavy caffeine consumption, I count myself nearly immune to the wonder drug. With a thousand different kinds of energy drinks on the market, I've decided to find out which ones work, and which should just be mixed with vodka and evacuated a few hours later. This ... More >>

Rockstar Zero Carb Energy Drink: Surprisingly Drinkable

After nearly two solid decades of heavy caffeine consumption, I count myself nearly immune to the wonder drug. While my morning coffee/Diet Mountain Dew regimen gets me back to normal, sometimes that's simply not enough. So I've decided to start trying out the bevy of energy drinks on the market to ... More >>

Two Americas, Continued

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Arts and Eats

Best Vegetarian Restaurant

Low Fat No Fat Café

McRibbing

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

Gold in Boca

Best Health-Food Store

Nutrition Depot Discount Vitamin Centers

Best Health Food Store

Whole Foods Market

Foodstuff

Esposito's Pizza Restaurant

The Doctor Will Sell You Now

Supplied by Rexall Showcase of Boca Raton, doctors and other distributors are pitching alternative forms of medicine that may not work in ways that may not be legal

Best Burrito

East Coast Burrito Factory

You Are What You Read

Weird Science

The Life Extension Foundation claims it'll add years to your life with pills and cancer profiles. As long as you have the money.