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…
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%…
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…
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…
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…
(Update from article in 2013 on SustainZine.com, now at Perpetualinnovation.org: Pi-Sustain. ) How a short feature in a Costco magazine revealed long-term innovation potential in an ancient superfood. Chia seeds health and nutrition benefits continue to gain traction, and an early signal of this shift appeared in Costco’s The Costco Connection (July 2013, p. 47)….
