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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Two Recommended Reads
James McWilliam’s Just Food: Where Locavores get it wrong and how we can truly eat responsibly Walter Willet’s Eat Drink and Be Healthy
Posted in health, locavores, mediterranean, recipe
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A good read on our fatness
Human appetite is elastic: give us more and we’ll eat more. Continue reading
Posted in obesity
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Food Prices, hunger, poor nutrition and other complexities
I attended the Institute of Medicine’s Mitigating the Nutritional Impacts of the Global Food Price Crisis: A Workshop. The meeting had some spectacular speakers that outlined the issues of the food price crisis, the global economic crisis and the ongoing … Continue reading
An African Green Revolution Perspective
A paper authored by me and some of my colleagues has recently been published in the Food Security journal. The paper entitled “Integrating a broader notion of food security and gender empowerment into the African Green Revolution” is an interesting … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food Insecurity, nutrition
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Another list of the healthiest foods, but this time, on the planet!
Forbes published the 12 healthiest foods on the planet! How one can pick 12, not 10 (ala spinal tap’s amp goes to 11 trickery) and decide which of these 12 are the “healthiest” is beyond scientific reasoning to me. And … Continue reading
Posted in fresh foods, health
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we just keep getting fatter.
Centers for Disease Control released preliminary results of the 2008 National Health Interview Survey. I got this from the great Marion Nestle’s site “Food Politics.” We just keep getting fatter here in the great US of A.
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What is organic? Your guess is as good as the USDAs
“USDA Organic products must contain at least 95 percent organic ingredients. The five percent non-organic ingredients could include additives or synthetics if they are on an approved list. The label must contain a list that identifies the organic, as well … Continue reading
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