Feb 12, 2012
Feb 9, 2012
Curing Diabetes: How Type 2 Became an Accepted Lifestyle - The Atlantic
Curing Diabetes: How Type 2 Became an Accepted Lifestyle - The Atlantic
Read the article to the end, then look up pcrm.org for a proven diabetes reversal eating plan.
From the Atlantic expose:
"What may surprise you is the food industry's role in manipulating our eating habits and undermining the most determined of our New Year's resolutions to lose weight.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Koplan and Kelly Brownell, from Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, observed: "Billions of dollars have been spent convincing individuals (children in particular) that highly sweetened beverages and cereals, salty snack foods, and a vast array of products high in fat, sugar, and salt are fun, athletic, sexy, popular, healthy, and even have beneficial properties."
Geralyn Spollett calls the ramped-up fat, salt, and sugar the food industry's "Golden Triangle." The American Diabetes Association president said: "You get enough fat, salt, and sugar in something and people will crave it." In fact, a 2009 Scripps Research Institute study found that over-consumption of fast food "triggers addiction-like neuroaddictive responses."
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diabetes cure
Feb 7, 2012
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Jan 27, 2012
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Jan 20, 2012
One City's Solution to Homeless Animals: Shoot 'Em!
One City's Solution to Homeless Animals: Shoot 'Em! But there are better solutions.
Jan 12, 2012
Jan 4, 2012
Dec 31, 2011
Dec 30, 2011
Dec 29, 2011
Amaranth makes a comeback - ancient Aztec superfood
I wrote about it 10/2010...now it has reached Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/michellemaisto/2011/12/05/meet-amaranth-quinoas-ancient-superfood-cousin/
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Dec 28, 2011
Dec 26, 2011
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Dec 16, 2011
Dec 15, 2011
Dec 14, 2011
Dec 12, 2011
Dec 11, 2011
Dec 10, 2011
Chick-Fil-A-holes strike again
Suing an artist over his "Eat More Kale" t-shirt. Chick-Fil-A-holes. Seriously, who would eat there? Someone on a Rascal scooter who can't make it to McDonald's?
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chick-fil-a
Dec 8, 2011
Dec 5, 2011
Nov 26, 2011
Fostering a dog, cat or other animal - great way to have and help animals
A temporary arrangement good for those whose living/travel situation keeps them from having a companion animal.
Nov 25, 2011
Lab-grown meat: state of the art and science
Barnstorming scientist explains the status and benefits of lab-grown meat. More humane and apparently healthier than slaughterhouse-derived flesh. http://www.theurbn.com/2011/11/grass-fed-or-lab-grown-how-do-you-prefer-your-meat/
Nov 22, 2011
Nov 21, 2011
Nov 20, 2011
Nov 19, 2011
Nov 18, 2011
Why does farm bill support unhealthy food and penalize organic/small growers?
...and what you and I can do. Well worth watching:
Nov 17, 2011
Nov 16, 2011
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Oct 30, 2011
Oct 28, 2011
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Oct 20, 2011
Oct 19, 2011
Women Unite: Together, We Can Beat Breast Cancer
Women Unite: Together, We Can Beat Breast Cancer Take back the power from the industrial-medical complex, ladies!
Oct 17, 2011
Oct 15, 2011
Oct 11, 2011
Oct 8, 2011
Oct 7, 2011
Oct 6, 2011
Oct 3, 2011
Koch brothers shady and illicit bus dealings
"What many people don’t know is how the Kochs’ anti- regulation political ideology has influenced the way they conduct business."
Sep 30, 2011
Sep 29, 2011
Sep 28, 2011
Tech time: Kindle quick review
Tech Time: Kindle quick review:
Yes.
That's it, in a word. Great for travel anywhere. Great for home use.
How does it compare with the iPad? Don't compare it. You can't expect a $199 (yes!) device to do everything that a $599 device can.
But that said, the Kindle Fire has some amenities that the iPad lacks. Such as: FLASH!
Why the low price point? It seems to me that Amazon's Jeff Bezos, being a smart guy, realizes that this is a smart move to boost sales of content -- Amazon content. Good move.
It's a buy.
More info here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle%20customer%20service%20q%20and%20a?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread=Tx8JRF3BB4TRDE
Yes.
That's it, in a word. Great for travel anywhere. Great for home use.
How does it compare with the iPad? Don't compare it. You can't expect a $199 (yes!) device to do everything that a $599 device can.
But that said, the Kindle Fire has some amenities that the iPad lacks. Such as: FLASH!
Why the low price point? It seems to me that Amazon's Jeff Bezos, being a smart guy, realizes that this is a smart move to boost sales of content -- Amazon content. Good move.
It's a buy.
More info here: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle%20customer%20service%20q%20and%20a?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread=Tx8JRF3BB4TRDE
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Sep 27, 2011
Knowing the bears, childrens, cows, and "the others"
Knowing Animals What if everyone who chooses to eat meat could do so only after spending a week with some farmed animals? What if hunters had to spend a few days with the family of the animal they killed, watching those animals grieve?
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face on the plate,
knowing the animals
Sep 25, 2011
Sep 24, 2011
Your complicity in daily brutality....
Emerson reminds us to think beyond our plates, and what we each can do to reduce cruelty to individual innocent beings.
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animal cruelty,
complicity in cruelty
Sep 19, 2011
Arsenic used by factory chicken farms for faster growth, "pink" appealing color
"Every year about two million pounds of arsenic-containing chemicals have been fed to chickens in the United States. Why would the industry do such a thing? When tens of thousands of birds are crammed into filthy, football field-sized sheds to lie beak-to-beak in their own waste they can become so heavily infested with internal parasites that adding arsenic to the feed to poison the bugs can result in a dramatic increase in growth rates. Also, arsenic can give the carcass a pinkish tinge, which consumers prefer." Read this important article re: Dr. Oz and Dr. Geiger insights. http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2011/09/19/dr-oz-apple-juice-and-arsenic-chicken-may-have-10-times-more/
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poultry arsenic,
poultry factory
Saving the speared swimmer at The Turtle Hospital
Visiting the Turtle Hospital and Crane Point bird rescue center in Marathon FL http://www.theurbn.com/2011/09/emergen-sea-visiting-the-turtle-hospital/
Sep 18, 2011
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Sep 10, 2011
Sep 8, 2011
Buffalo Spotted in Washington DC - new exhibit
The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century is now on exhibitin Washington, D.C., and available for virtual viewing online. The show's title harks back to a super-sized cabinet of curiosities Buffalo Spotted in Washington, D.C.
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american art museum,
bierstadt,
buffalo,
hall of wonders
China's energy & food consumption...not enough resources
http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights18
Among the key commodities such as grain, meat, oil, coal, and steel, China consumes more of each than the United States except for oil, where the United States still has a wide (though narrowing) lead. China uses a quarter more grain than the United States. Its meat consumption is double that of the United States. It uses three times as much coal and four times as much steel.
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE - click the LINK.
What China is teaching us is that the western economic model—the fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy—will not work for the world. If it does not work for China, it will not work for India, which by 2035 is projected to have an even larger population than China. Nor will it work for the other 3 billion people in developing countries who are also dreaming the "American dream." And in an increasingly integrated global economy, where we all depend on the same grain, oil, and steel, the western economic model will no longer work for the industrial countries either.
The overriding challenge for our generation is to build a new economy—one that is powered largely by renewable sources of energy, that has a much more diversified transport system, and that reuses and recycles everything. We have the technology to build this new economy, an economy that will allow us to sustain economic progress. But can we muster the political will to translate this potential into reality?
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE - click the LINK.
What China is teaching us is that the western economic model—the fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy—will not work for the world. If it does not work for China, it will not work for India, which by 2035 is projected to have an even larger population than China. Nor will it work for the other 3 billion people in developing countries who are also dreaming the "American dream." And in an increasingly integrated global economy, where we all depend on the same grain, oil, and steel, the western economic model will no longer work for the industrial countries either.
The overriding challenge for our generation is to build a new economy—one that is powered largely by renewable sources of energy, that has a much more diversified transport system, and that reuses and recycles everything. We have the technology to build this new economy, an economy that will allow us to sustain economic progress. But can we muster the political will to translate this potential into reality?
Sep 4, 2011
Mortgage interest deduction - costs taxpayers $1 trillion
Beloved by the public and the real estate industry, the deduction will cost the government more than $1 trillion over the next decade.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/03/MN101KRFD4.DTL#ixzz1X1zrT6By
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/03/MN101KRFD4.DTL#ixzz1X1zrT6By
Sep 3, 2011
Sep 2, 2011
How "livestock" cows are treated: 2 must-see videos
How cows are mistreated routinely at factory farms - dairy and beef.
Fear at the salughterhouse:
Fear at the salughterhouse:
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CAFO,
factory farm animal cruelty
Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy To Swallow
Habit Makes Bad Food Too Easy To Swallow -- how to break those habits? One tip: “It’s not always feasible for dieters to avoid or alter the environments in which they typically overeat,” Wood said. “More feasible, perhaps, is for dieters top actively disrupt the established patterns of how they eat through simple techniques, such as switching the hand they use to eat.”
Sep 1, 2011
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