Food and Nutrition

I received this email this morning from FRESH, and I am just disgusted. It’s not enough that Monsanto has been systematically buying up seed companies. It’s not enough that they sell most of the corn and soy bean seeds in this country filling our food supply with GMOs, but now they want to market GMO [...]

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Here’s an interesting article published by Hal Herzog, PhD, on the prevalence of eating disorders among vegetarians.

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Woman fined for growing a raised bed vegetable garden in her front yard in Oak Park, Michigan.

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I picked up my side of beef a couple weeks ago and made a video of the cuts. The butcher skins the steer and removes the organs, head, and feet and then weighs a side. They charge the per-pound fee based on hanging weight. My side weighed 330 pounds. After cutting and packaging, the usable [...]

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I just heard about a six-figure Consumer Alliance between the Coca-Cola Company and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The Consumer Alliance is a program that allows corporate partners like The Coca-Cola Company to work with the AAFP to educate consumers about the role their products can play in a healthy, active lifestyle. As [...]

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Now that I’m eating meat, I’m having fun cooking again and trying new recipes. A couple nights ago I cooked Tarragon Chicken. In this recipe I was introduced to the delightful taste of shallots and tarragon in white wine, and I used crème fraîshe for the first time. I have to say that tarragon is [...]

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Thursday my friend Pete and I went to see Julie and Julia in the theater. Also in attendance were about 30 female grayhairs and one other man. I would have loved to interview some of the women watching with us to get their impressions. The theater was filled with laughter many times. I wonder how [...]

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