Like many, we were really pleased to hear the news earlier this year that General Mills was going GMO-free with Cheerios – one of its top brands. The difference-maker? Consumer pressure, especially through social media – people just like us voicing their opposition to genetically engineered food, demanding better. Of course, it’s only original Cheerios […]
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A Look Back at Our Biological Dentist Blog, 2013 Edition
When it comes to the end of one year and the start of a new one, there’s plenty of tradition to go around: noisemakers and fireworks at midnight, a chorus of “Auld Lang Syne,” resolutions, college football…and top 10 lists for anything and everything most everywhere you look. Who are we to forgo tradition? And […]
The Ongoing Fight for Healthy Food, Healthy People & a Healthy Planet
Despite the rain that pushed through the Houston area this past weekend, a good many folks still turned out for the local March Against Monsanto – an event replicated in 47 states, 50 countries and 500 cities around the globe. Up in St. Louis, hundreds demonstrated at the front door of Monsanto headquarters. Events like […]
9 Reasons to Demand Real Food
Our bodies are not designed to eat the kind of highly processed products sold by the giant food corporations, nor the synthetic chemical residues that cling to industrially raised produce, meat and dairy, nor genetically engineered foods that would never have developed in nature without human help. As one registered dietitian has put it, “The […]
11 Must-Reads on What Industrial Farming Has Wrought
GMOs are far from the only health and environmental risk industrial farming has wrought. The quest for profits through things like higher yields, faster and more dramatic growth cycles, and more uniform “product” has come with scant concern for how it might affect the overall health of plants or animals, quality of the food […]
Standing Up to the GMO Racket
Earlier this year, two million people in 52 countries and 436 cities around the world declared our right to clean and real food by marching against agribusiness giant Monsanto. Here’s a glimpse of how it looked here in Houston back at the end of May: [pb_videoshowcase group=”11″] Now a second global march has […]
Why Organic Food Matters (& How to Find It Close to Home)
If you follow the news, you probably ran into an item last week declaring that organic food is “no more nutritious” than conventionally raised food and thus “no better for you,” just more expensive. But as many have already noted, more nutrients aren’t the point. What matters is what’s not in organic food: synthetic pesticides […]
Foods that Promote Good Oral Health
This is not the first word nor the last word about nutrition, but it has good advice and information. Teeth go through a cyclical process of ‘mineralization’ or building and strengthening of tooth and bone, and ‘demineralization’ or loss of tooth minerals. Quite literally the food we eat will either help build strong teeth and […]