March 13, 2010
Excerpted with permission from True Food: Eight Simple Steps to a Healthier You, National Geographic Books, 2009.
vegetables, nutrition, nutrients, hypertension, heart disease, health, fruit, eat the rainbow, diabetes, cancer
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March 12, 2010
March is a bitter month, particularly if you’re a locavore in certain parts of the country, desperately awaiting the first asparagus of spring. We checked in with vegetable expert...
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February 26, 2010
The actress Meryl Streep melted audiences everywhere (like chocolate in a bain marie) for her Oscar-nominated performance in Julie & Julia, the quirky and wonderful movie...
phthalates, pesticides, pesticide residues, organic, NRDC, Mothers & Others, Meryl Streep, Julia Child, grass-fed, food waste, e-waste, children's health, BPA
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November 18, 2009
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) announces its second annual Growing Green Awards to recognize individuals who have demonstrated original leadership in the field of...
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September 30, 2009
Every day, more than 2 million California adolescents (62 percent) drink soda and 1.4 million (43 percent) eat fast food, but only 38 percent eat five or more servings of fruits...
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September 30, 2009
The Lunch Lady, Anne Cooper, was on The Daily Show the other night defending Michelle Obama for putting in a vegetable garden at the White House. Yes, you read it right; she...
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September 30, 2009
Lately there have been some much-deserved attacks on the livestock industry. Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer has delineated the horrors of factory farms in Eating Animals and the...
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September 29, 2009
There is a new fruit stand on the corner near my home. I think it’s terrific, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t belong there. The cart appeared on the day the New York Times...
September 16, 2009
"How we eat determines to a considerable extent how the world is used," writes Wendell Berry in What are People For? You want to eat right, and to feed your family foods that are...
water-footprint, waste, packaging, organic, local-food, health, grass-fed beef, global warming, Food, confined-animal-feedlot-operations, CO2 emissions, CAFO
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August 31, 2009
Photo credit: ewanr/Flickr
Humans can't eat grass, but the meat we eat should come from animals that did. If you are going to eat meat, getting it from grass-fed animals may...
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June 2, 2009
It may be hard to believe, but the quickest, cheapest, greenest and best-for-you meals are the ones you make yourself from fresh, whole ingredients. Americans have been hammered...
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May 21, 2009
The Lunch Lady, Anne Cooper, was on The Daily Show the other night defending Michelle Obama for putting in a vegetable garden at the White House. Yes, you read it right; she was...
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April 3, 2009
President Hoover, campaigning in the 1920’s, promised Americans “a chicken in every pot.” This wistful dream of 80 years ago is an abundant reality to most American families....
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