healthy food

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…

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….

Non-GMO Food Market to Hit $800 Billion by 2017 · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader: Notice that Non-GMO does not necessarily mean “organic”… Should be cool to read the full report: http://www.packagedfacts.com/Non-GMO-Foods-7822141/ But that would cost about $3,000… So we’ll have to read the discussion on it. But the trends in whole foods — as in Whole Foods, Hanes, Chipoltles, etc. — has been more than impressive. The organic section of all grocery…

Hain Celestial (HAIN) was way up today on great earnings… That’s right, the high end and heathy food company. Shouldn’t they be getting crushed on the high prices from the great drought of 2012? Healthy eating is “not a fad, not a trend”, according to CEO Simon. Consumption of the category is up 14%, vs about 1% on the main stream food categories. Of course the super fast growth of Whole Foods doesn’t hurt, but…