Arthur Agatston, MD is a world renowned preventive cardiologist and creator of the groundbreaking South Beach Diet. His latest book is THE SOUTH BEACH WAKE-UP CALL: Why America Is Still Getting Fatter and Sicker and he’s also just launched the “Sign Up to Wake Up” campaign on Facebook to help people take control of their […]
Health & Fitness
What U.S. Food Companies Don’t Tell You about Your Food
by guest blogger Katherine diMatteo, president and world board member of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements Over the past few months, I’ve found myself neck-deep in thinking and talking about genetic engineering. Not about the science, but about the current state of affairs surrounding it genetically engineered foods. Recently, the USDA approved RoundUp […]
5 Belly-Flattening Secrets
By guest blogger Dr. Mao Shing Ni, DOM, PhD, ABAAHP, LAc; author of the bestselling book Secrets of Longevity. Two out of three people in the United States are overweight. Lately, there has been a lot of focus on reducing belly fat—and with good reason, as accumulated fat around the hips and abdomen points to […]
Hospitals to Serve Antibiotic-Free Chicken
by Wendy Gordon Does it matter if the chicken you buy for your family is from a farm that uses low doses of antibiotics in its feed? Consider this: Premier Healthcare Alliance recently contracted with Murray’s Chicken of South Fallsburg, NY, to provide affordably priced Certified Humane Raised and Handled chicken to member hospitals and healthcare […]
Good Food Ain’t Cheap;
Cheap Food Ain’t Good (part 2 of 2)
by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics, www.gustorganics.com. For part 1 of this blog post, click here. “Good food ain’t cheap, cheap food ain’t good” seems to make sense to almost everybody, but, at the time of decision-making, most Americans still go for cheap food. As discussed in a previous article, The […]
The Biological Clock versus
The Life Clock
When I got pregnant at 19 and decided to keep the baby, I would joke with all my 30-something friends that at least I didn’t have to worry about my biological clock. Back then, the talk at all social events among working women was the biological clock issue and whether they were going to be […]
The Cheap Disease (part 1 of 2)
by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics. U.S. food consumers are somehow programmed to buy food cheaply. Our national motivation to pay less seems to be in our social DNA. We suffer what I call The Cheap Disease. This national sport has created a cancer that’s been growing out of control inside […]
Deadly serious: Antibiotic-Resistant
Salmonella Free to Be in Your Food
by Wendy Gordon In what country is it legal for deadly salmonella to be in your food? Um, well, there may be others, but I am sure of only one—the United States. Bad joke, right? No, deadly serious. “In strict legal terms,” Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug, explained on Wired.com, “there may have been no […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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