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A Healthier (& Cheaper) Way to Celebrate National Junk Food Day

1:07 pm in chocolate, cooking, diet, Food & Health by TreeHugger

ocean trash cartoon Click to enlarge. "Junk Food" by Option-G Today is National Junk Food Day and that comes with a lot of negative connotations. Junk food is associated with childhood obesity and is a well-known provider of empty calories. However, a healthy lifestyle doesn't leave you without a way to celebrate National Read the full story on TreeHugger

Cicada Ice Cream? A Big Buzz That Was Short Lived

11:59 pm in chocolate, News by TreeHugger

cicada on blades of grass photo.jpg Photo via skantman's flickr When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you cicadas, make ice cream? It may not make sense to many of us, but that is what the owners of Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream in Colombia, Missouri did. Cicadas are back and buzzing in many states this year, including Missouri. Millions of these insects, which appear every 13-years, have been swarmin...Read the full story on TreeHugger