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.
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…
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…
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…
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….
By Dr. Elmer HallAuthor of Perpetual Sustainability and Patent Primer 5 A Global Experiment Without Consent Roundup® has become one of the most controversial agrochemical products in modern history. Marketed as a simple weed killer based on glyphosate, it is in fact a potent chemical cocktail applied globally to genetically modified (GMO) crops. This system—glyphosate plus surfactants and sticking agents—has infiltrated our food supply, water systems, and soil health with little public awareness and even…
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…
