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A Crack of Light Under The Door: Walmart Moves To Healthy Products
While Walmart issued its latest “5 Year Plan” edict, those of us interested in sustainable foods, take a wait and see attitude towards their good-for-you plans. We usually think of countries like the U.S.S.R., China, and Argentina, with sweeping “5 year plans”, but Walmart just keeps co...
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Resveratrol Benefits Questioned
Questions Rise Over Anti-Aging Drugs Does red wine, with its natural resveratrol contribute to anti-aging? What about creating supplements named "resveratrol"? Doubts grow over resveratrol and other compounds under development at the GSK company. Earlier this year, a group at Pfizer p...
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So How Do You Make Clean Water?
Cleaning Your Tap Water of Toxins Has Toxic Consequences by: A.K. Streeter, Tree Hugger, Alternet January 14, 2011 In replacing chlorine as a disinfectant in drinking water, we now have something turning out to pose possibly more serious health risks. This recent NPR story headline,...
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Dr.Mercola Reveals Contents of the Chicken MacNugget
Did anybody ever think they should eat fast food? I was marched, with a group of food writers, to the very plant in Arkansas, where Tyson makes the infamous chicken mac nuggets. As if the following illuminating piece by Dr. Mercola isn't enough to steer you and your family away from this dreadfu...
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USDA Fires Organic Farming Specialist for Expressing Opinion
Mowing Oats & Sweet Clover (© Image courtesy of Roxbury Farm, CSA) The free exchange of ideas being essential for a healthy democracy, it was particularly disturbing to learn that Mark D. Keating was terminated as an Agricultural Marketing Specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
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Organic Ground Beef Recalled in Multi-state Effort: E-Coli.
California Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-070-2010 HEALTH RISK: HIGH Congressional and Public Affairs (202) 720-9113 Neil Gaffne...
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Spuds only for Wa. State Potato Commissioner
The potato diet publicity stunt A publicity-hungry potato industry bigwig is out to prove that spuds are health food -- and to make his point, that's all he's eating for two starchy months. Dr. Wm. C. Douglas III broke this story this morning. Let's hear it for sanity. And for Spud Aversi...
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Senate Passes Bill That Addresses Food Safety. Sort of.
Months after her 2-year-old son died from eating a fast-food hamburger tainted with E. coli in January 1993, Diana Nole of Gig Harbor, Wash., went to Capitol Hill and asked Congress to overhaul the nation's food-safety laws. Now Congress could be on the verge of passing a sweeping measure that N...
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Countdown to Thanksgiving
What's on your to-do list to get ready for Thanksgiving. Here's ours courtesy of the USDA for safe handling and preparation of the turkey on its day: As Thanksgiving approaches, cooking the traditional turkey dinner gives rise to anxieties and questions. What kind of turkey should I buy? Sho...
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Low Carb Dieters in Luck For Holiday Season
Low Carb Dieters in Luck For Holiday Season Yes, the season is only a couple days away, that six week period of parties and celebrations that dieters often fear. You’ve read all the warnings. 2000 calorie dinners, diet-busting parties. I mean the mainstream press would scare you out of...
