One of the questions that students in my nutrition class always ask is: how can I afford to eat healthy food? It’s not a question that can be fully answered in 25 words or less, but here’s a post with some excellent ways to save on food.
Archive for March, 2009
8 Small Ways to Save Big on Food Expenses
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 |
Synonyms for Sugar on Food Labels
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2009 |
A public-spirited blogger has compiled a list of artificial and highly processed plant-based sugars. Food manufacturers have clearly found many ways to confuse the issue. Here’s the full list: Aspartame – marketed as Nutrasweet (artificial, 0 calories) Acesulfame potassium (acesulfame-K) / E950 – marketed as Sunett / Sweet One (artificial, 0 calories) Brown sugar Corn [...]
Study Attributes Anticancer Benefits to Fruits and Vegetables, Especially Those Grown Organically
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2009 |
As soon as I can access the full study, I’ll have more to say. For now, here’s a report from The Independent in Britain. A diet high in fruit and vegetables, especially organically grown ones, may protect against cancer and heart disease and could be equivalent in this respect to taking a low dose of [...]
Ethical Questions Abound as Experimental Trauma Treatments Yield Increased Death Rate
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2009 |
Bioethicist questions research done without the consent of patients. The nub of the question: how to ethically perform research on patients who have lost a great deal of blood and are unable to give consent to an experimental treatment?
ADHD Drugs Stunt Growth, May Be of No Benefit Long-Term
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2009 |
A federally sponsored study finds that drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which are taken by 5% of American children, stunt growth and appear to be of no benefit long-term, thougth they are prescribed for long-term use. From today’s Washington Post, a tale of scientists unwilling to accept scientific evidence, attempting to spin it [...]
Drinking Super-Hot Beverages Liked to Esophageal Cancer
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2009 |
The esophagus is the part of the digestive tube leading from the throat to the stomach. Researchers at Iran’s Tehran University of Medical Sciences have determined that people who drink very hot tea on a regular basis have increased rates of esophageal cancer. Habitually drinking tea at a temperature of 65 to 70° C (149 to [...]
Eating Healthier Food, Organic or Not
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2009 |
The bottom lines in this excellent Mark Bittman column from the Sunday New York Times: organic Oreos or sugary organic candy bars are not health foods, and many small, locally-based sustainable farmers can’t afford the official USDA organic certification. So while organic foods are free of pesticides and herbicides, the issue is more complex than [...]
White House Garden Will Be Organic, with Local Children Playing Key Role
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2009 |
As a longtime organic gardener who is convinced that a sustainable future requires a massive increase in local urban and suburban gardening, this news about the Obamas’ organic garden at the White House exceeds my highest expectations. Groundbreaking is today, Friday March 20, the first day of spring: While the organic garden will provide food [...]
Federal Diet Guidelines Recommend Far Too Much Fat
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2009 |
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has a powerful commentary by renowned nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn. The Food and Nutrition Board’s 2002 report says that to reduce degenerative diseases like heart disease and cancer, we can consume up to 35 percent of our calories as fat, up to 35 percent of our [...]
First Family Will Plant White House Vegetable Garden
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2009 |
There hasn’t been one of these in a century or so. What an excellent example to set. We needs thousands of new gardens all across the country. As first reported online by food writer Eddie Gehman Kohan, who reports on food issues related to the Obamas, First Lady Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey’s “O” magazine, [...]
