by guest blogger Stephanie Eckelkamp, senior associate editor at Prevention magazine Inflammation has become an absolute epidemic. Sure, at its most basic, it’s our body’s response to outside irritants, a natural part of our immune system without which our wounds wouldn’t heal. But thanks to increasingly high stress levels and an over-reliance on processed foods, many […]
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Food as Medicine: How One Hospital Is Using Organic Produce to Help Heal Patients
by guest blogger “Coach” Mark Smallwood, Rodale Institute executive director In 431 BC, Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” More than 2,500 years later, we are inundated with advertisements boasting the latest, greatest cure-all superdrug. From a young age, we learn that it doesn’t matter how or what we […]
Stocking up on Seasonal Super Foods
by guest blogger Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc, integrative medicine pioneer Our relationship with food is constantly evolving. In the past few years, many of us have embraced localism, doing the extra work to find items that are locally grown and raised rather than shipped thousands of miles from foreign locations. We do this for […]
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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