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  • Top 15 Contaminated Fish You Shouldn’t be Eating

    Top 15 Contaminated Fish You Shouldn’t be Eating:

    What’s the USDA recommendation for Mercury intake?

    If you eat some of these fish, you will exceed safe levels if you eat it more than once every couple weeks. Sharks and swordfish I new about, but others in the list are a real eye-opener.

    Biomagnification is where toxic chemicals such as mercury build up more and more as it moves up the food chain (to humans).

    This is a really good article with lots of good information on sustainability and safe eating levels of fish.

    Maybe salmon will move up on many people’s list. Sustainable, wild would be best, of course.

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  • ABCs: Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and it’s really bad news : TreeHugger

    Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and it’s really bad news : TreeHugger:

    The ABCs of colony collapse among Bees appears to be really, really ugly. Well, it has been ugly, but know we know a little more about it, vs. being mainly in the dark.

    This current research seems to find that a combination of pesticides and fungicides reduces the immune system of bees.

    This story summarizing the research is just filled with horrible little nuggets. On average the bee pollen they studied had 9 different special ingredients in the pollen cocktails taken live from California.

    Worse, much of the pollen comes from the “wild”, not harvest crops.

    However, finally knowing more about the cause will help hugely in addressing this critical issue (for diversity and food crops).

    Remedies of better use and control of pesticides/fungicides seems obvious. But organic methods should help a little or a LOT.

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  • Organic. Foods to buy Organic — The dirty dozen foods

    There’s a lot of discussion about foods that are really and issue to eat that are not organic.

    The idea is that you can eat the cheaper stuff in many cases but definitely spend the money on some of the foods that are really likely to be very unhealthy if you don’t go for the organically grown.
    Look here for the annual list of the dirty and also the green foods by Environmental Working Group’s annual list.

    7 Best Foods to Buy Organic

    • Potatoes
    • Beef
    • Milk
    • Apples
    • Strawberries
    • Kale / Spinach
    • Peaches

    The Dirty Dozen

    “But organic food can cost more, meaning many families are loathe to shell out the extra cash for organic produce on every shopping trip. That’s what makes the Environmental Working Group’s annual list of the dirty dozen foods so useful. The group analyzes Department of Agriculture data about pesticide residue and ranks foods based on how much or little pesticide residue they have. The group has estimated that individuals can reduce their exposure by 80% if they switch to organic when buying these 12 foods.“

    The Dirty Dozen PLUS (14 foods to strongly consider organics)

    Eating Well will tell you that there’s a couple more you should keep your eye on that are dirty(er).

    Note that the USDA has not yet offered a Minimum daily recommendation for pesticides. So, if you want to reduce that wild-card in your diet, avoiding these foods unless they are organic is probably a good idea!.
    But, it’s your body and your diet, so you decide where and how you spend your money and gain your calories/nutrition.  
    Healthy eats to you.

  • World Water Day… March 22… Cooperation … Whatcha gonna do?

    World Water Day is upcoming on March 22…
    Most of us don’t realize, or don’t think about it much, the nexus of water, energy and food. It takes a lot of water to make energy; it takes a lot of water to make food… It takes even more water to make food that is higher on the food chain (beef vs. corn). It takes a lot of water to make clothes.
    One day per year we all pause to contemplate water. International year of water cooperation at www.UNWater.org.
    What are you gonna do to save water? (and/or energy and/or food and/or plastics and/or clothes)?
    Water Foot Print calc.

  • Earth Day Number 1 (of 4) Wellness… Gleaning feeds the needy | Highlands Today

    Gleaning feeds the needy | Highlands Today: “Gleaning feeds the needy”

    Earth Day… Basic four things to do. Right now.

    Number 1. Health and wellness. People can’t be healthy, and they certainly can’t be productive, if they don’t have the basics of health and living conditions. Just drinkable water and basic sanitation is a critical issue. This combined with the lack of basic nutrition results in major health and wellness issues for approximately 2 billion of the world’s population.
    ToDo: One of the things that can be done here is to go on missions to developing countries to help them learn and develop the sanitary and development skills. You will want to develop your own survival skills first in a programs such as the HEART program at Warner University.
    ToDo: Consider helping with composting, urban gardens and gleaning projects. Gleaning, as mentioned in the bible, is where volunteers are allowed to go through the fields after they have been harvested to pick the edible — but not necessarily pretty — fruit and vegetables. (See Gleaning For The World (www.GFTW.org), End Hunger (www.EndHunger.org), gleaning in Florida (this article). 

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