Monthly Archives: September 2013

Tobacco and food, GMOs, cinnamon, herb power and more from the week-end readings

Are certain foods a new tobacco and the food industry a new tobacco industry? Food Is the New Tobacco (The Environmental Magazine) shines some light on the issue. In the dark – at least that’s where a consumer is today … Continue reading

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Hope Beneath Our Feet

A recommendation for this book emanated from the least expected source – a person who I would never think of as someone for whom the preservation of the natural environment and resources matters. Hope Beneath Our Feet comprises of essays … Continue reading

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Cake, exercises, BPA, food movement, arsenic and more from the week-end readings

You Can’t Have It All, but You Can Have Cake. Asides from the fact that “all” can have so many meanings (as Delia Nephron points out), even if we could have all, do we really need it? Why would we … Continue reading

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Food labels, nuclear power, pesticides in tea, Drift and more from the week-end readings

Dr. Marion Nestle affirms in her post titled FDA study: Do added nutrients sell products? (Of course they do) that food marketers know perfectly well that nutrients sell food products. On a related topic, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Introduces Bill … Continue reading

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