What were we saying not so long ago about government health advice? Now there’s this in the British Medical Journal: The expert report underpinning the next set of US Dietary Guidelines for Americans fails to reflect much relevant scientific literature in its reviews of crucial topics and therefore risks giving a misleading picture, an investigation […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Antibiotics Everywhere – Even in Your Food
No sooner had March begun than news spread about the rise of a new “superbug” that kills about half of all who contract it through bloodstream infections. Microbes like this one – called Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or “CRE” for short – are one result of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. And it’s not just […]
Organics vs.GMOs
Did you see the article by Dr. Oz in Time last month? Surprisingly, he claimed that genetically modified foods (GMOs) were the same as organic, belittling organic food buyers and users as “snooty” and “elitists.” The odd thing is that it contains a seeming change of heart for Dr. Oz, since just last spring, an […]
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 […]