I’m so happy to see my latest passion, our food supply, is the subject of the cover story of Time magazine. The August 31, 2009 issue featured an article titled The Real Cost of Cheap Food: America’s Food Crisis and How to Fix It by Bryan Walsh. Walsh discusses the destructive way we treat our [...]
Filed under: Environment, Food and Nutrition on September 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
Here is an interesting post about a mother who gave her child unlimited access to sweets and what happened during her one month experiment.
Filed under: Children on September 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
One of my favorite authors, Michael Pollan, just wrote an article in the NY Times about health care reform and how Americans eat. Definitely worth checking out! A few interesting tidbits:
According to the CDC, 3/4 of health care spending goes to “preventable chronic diseases,” many of which are linked to diet.
We’re spending $147 billion to [...]
Filed under: Food and Nutrition on September 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
The Environmental Working Group just released the results of a 10-month investigation into more than 200 peer-reviewed studies, government advisories, and industry documents regarding the amount of radiation released by cell phones. You can see the summary here, read the full report here, and look up your specific phone here. You can also read the [...]
Filed under: Random on September 16th, 2009 | No Comments »
My husband and I are going on a childless vacation for five days. Don’t know if we’ll have much time for reading, but here is what we’re bringing:
The Food Revolution
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Counterclockwise
Hopefully I’ll have some good book recommendations when I return!
Filed under: Random on September 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
This summer, my husband and I have been trying to eat more vegan. It turns out that we have been unable to give up eggs, although we’ve limited ourself to one dozen per week for a family of four. We also haven’t been able to cut out all dairy, although we use soy milk in [...]
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Vegetarian/Vegan on September 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After drinking Silk soy milk for 7 years, I learned that the manufacturer decided to stop using organic soybeans and replace them with conventionally grown ones. Needless to say, I was on the market for a new soy milk. Non-organic soybeans are not acceptable for my family, even if Silk claims they are not genetically [...]
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Organic on September 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Just over a week ago, I found out that SIGG water bottles are lined with BPA (at least the older ones are, which were mostly what we had). I thought about sending my older ones back to BPA and requesting gift certificates for new ones, which I heard SIGG was doing, but I honestly was [...]
Filed under: Chemicals, Children, Plastic on September 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment »