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Tag Archives: health
Eating Real…on Food Day and Every Day
National Food Day is October 24th! A day to celebrate healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. Learn more about it at foodday.org
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …




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