by guest blogger Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH. Winter skin takes a beating, But there are easy steps you can take to nourish your winter skin and keep it happy.
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Vitamin D in a Book:
Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country
I have read thousands of books in my life and I have never laughed so hard, so often, and so deeply (yes, that was the sound of my lungs squeegeeing). I actually had a woman on a plane turn to me and ask me, “What on earth are you reading?”
My Top 10 Favorite Magazines
Last week was the annual American Magazine Conference, where the titans of the industry get together and commiserate about whatever crises face us—which are perpetual and ongoing. And with the incessant tribal drumbeat of the online/digital world, it’s hard to remember sometimes that magazines are still loved. By people, at least. And it got me […]
If We Want to Continue Eating Real Food: Dr. Vandana Shiva Recommends We Support Organic Agriculture and Food Globally
by guest blogger Annie Spiegelman “The challenge of agriculture must no longer be to produce huge quantities of nutritionally unbalanced food, but rather to produce nutritionally balanced food in a sustainable way.” —Dr. Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva was recently a guest speaker at Dominican University, in San Rafael, CA, as part of Marin Organic’s 2011 […]
Why All the Floods?
Is it me, or are we being inundated with catastrophic floods? Cedar Rapids, Nashville, Australia, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana…the list goes on, and while it seems like an especially bad year, the trend has been growing. You can blame it on global warming, the rapture, or just plain bad luck. But I have a different theory. […]
10 Secrets for Happy Winter Running
I’m still a new runner—and I use the word runner loosely, since I still can’t run up all the hills around my house. But if I don’t get at least a weekly run, I feel myself start to get crusty and cranky, and return to a state of being where I was not happy one […]
Who Let the GMOs Out?
By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva Having been raised and hardened in New York City, I am inherently skeptical. We New Yorkers consider that a social grace. When I heard about scientists inserting genes from humans, plants, bacteria, or viruses into crop plants like soybeans and corn, my “what the #@*%?” barometer […]
Secret Stress-Relieving Remedy! Sunday Movies
I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time relaxing. With all the work and chores that need to be done, it feels impossible to slow down. And yet, I know I need to. Sometimes I just want to be taken away to another world, another time and place. I used to LOVE, […]
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.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
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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