Panera, as you know, is the casual dining, yet healthy, place to eat out (and now with a lot of delivery). Now that we are not so concerned about the salt in the menu (sometimes up to 1,000mg for a meal) it seems Panera is really living the wholesome live and riding the healthfood craze. Early in 2007, Panera was talking about totally cleaning up its already pretty squeaky clean act. (See company press and…
Pittsburgh Tries to Eat Its Way Through a Savage Weed – WSJ: What do you do, with Kudzu? Invasives like kudzu and Japanese Knotweed, can take over square miles. They really go wild in strip mines and disturbed areas, and completely take over. Once started, the weed pushes out anything and everything in the surrounding areas — an ugly mono-culture that disrupts entire ecosystems much like Melaleuca has done in Southern Florida. Melaleuca trees transplanted…
Uncle Sam Just Told Us To Drink Water, Not Soda. You Might’ve Missed It http://n.pr/1TI2QUx The guidelines, and the pictures, should be, and could be, very simple. More… fresh fruits and vegetables. More water. More exercise. Less… Processed foods, red meat, and sugary soft drinks. Simple. And fits nicely into almost any diagram you want to make.
‘Fast 10’ sustainability leadership tips | GreenBiz: There are great tips. I really like the “building a business case” tip. If you can’t build a pretty good business case for something, then it makes a case for change that is usually hard, nearly impossible. Getting ahead means that you can play offense, not defense. Langert is from McDonald’s so he has had his work cut out for him. When McD has tried to introduce more…
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…
Food Makers’ Secret Ingredient: Less Salt http://online.wsj.com/articles/food-companies-quietly-cut-salt-fat-from-recipes-1403566403 Thanks. But it is too bad it has to be a secret. It is interesting how taistless and healthy seems to be synonimous to many people. In the meanwhile, there is so much salt in things like soup, that even then “low salt” soups are 25 to 50% of US Daily recommended. And they are still not edible for those of us who have adjusted our salt pallet….
