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." 

Dec 28, 2011

Dec 26, 2011

Kooky sides of Paris

Skating on the Eiffel Tower, catching raucous fanfare bands on the Opera steps....

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?

Nov 26, 2011

Bram Stoker's Dublin - Travel - NewsObserver.com

Bram Stoker's Dublin - Travel - NewsObserver.com

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 19, 2011

Searching for Eco-Cookie

Nov 16, 2011

Check out the American Dietitics Ass'n's funders

Dishealth is very profitable business.

Oct 22, 2011

Denver Art Runs Deep:: Robert Adams photographic wake-up calls

http://www.theurbn.com/2011/10/wake-up-call-denver-art-is-more-than-pretty-pictures/

Oct 8, 2011

Oct 3, 2011

Most farm subsidies go to big livestock producers

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 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

Acknowledge No Evil: How People Come to Accept Violence Against Animals as Normal (Part 3) | HumaneSpot.org

Acknowledge No Evil: How People Come to Accept Violence Against Animals as Normal (Part 3) | HumaneSpot.org

The Top Ten Urban Parks | GORP.com

The Top Ten Urban Parks | GORP.com

Sep 27, 2011

Dan Rather on pesticides & bees

Dan Rather on pesticides & bees
Bee Aware from Greg Stanley on Vimeo.

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?

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.

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/

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 16, 2011

Reducing Food Waste

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.

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? 

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

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:

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.”