Excellent Documentary
Please view this documentary. It is an excellent example of finding out where your food supply comes from and demanding it be better. Deconstructing Food
Food is not Medicine
Or is it? The article does not address the benefits of whole foods. However, it is good to see this subject matter becoming more mainstream. Don’t be misled by these food label tricks.
C’mon, fill your lungs with free radicals.
We have all been bombarded with advertisements and media reports about antioxidants in various forms being heralded as everything from the fountain of youth to protection from our own bad habits. Along with the news on antioxidants comes the message that free radicals (what antioxidants neutralize) are evil and we should do everything we can […]
It’s not candy. It’s candida.
Yeast Reduction Diet: An all too common and frustrating health issue these days is Candida or yeast overgrowth in our bodies. It’s a fungus that steals our nutrients and therefore our energy then leaves us with toxic, even carcinogenic waste material to deal with. Our immune systems have a very hard time dealing with this […]
Glycemic Diet… yes, it really can matter.
The glycemic index is a measure of the effect a carbohydrate has on a person’s blood glucose level in a two hour period. The glycemic index score of a particular food is a number the amount of rise in blood glucose divided by the standard (glucose) and multiplied by 100. That gives us the number […]
Food Inc. Heard of it? You Should.
check out the website and view the trailer here.
honeybees – why should we care that they are dying?
There is actually terminology for it – CCD Colony Collapse Disorder. Something is killing the honeybees around the world. In the past, beekeepers annually lost between 5 and 10% of their colonies. In 2007 that number rose to over 13% and last year to over 35%. Everybody immediately thinks of honey when they think of […]
Great Article From New York Times on Organic and Locally Grown Foods
This is a great article that really highlights the delimmas we face and the hope there is to change the way the vast majority of people thinks about food and how our food is produced. By ANDREW MARTIN Published: March 21, 2009 ANAHEIM, Calif. AS tens of thousands of people recently strolled among booths of […]
Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House
By MARIAN BURROS Published: March 19, 2009 WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of the South Lawn on Friday to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets — the president does not like […]
Report from Johns Hopkins University
Here is another example of a “revolutionary” concept that vegetables can protect people from disease. Veggies May Protect Women from Diabetes.. It is always nice to see when science and research validate what we have been preaching for years. Being told that eating more vegetables is good for your health is nothing new. When the […]