Don't be a guinea pig - keep GMOs off your plate
by Kelley Herring
If you have picked up a newspaper or turned on the news recently, you might have read or heard the story that "red meat causes cancer."
Just about every major health organization and the entire mainstream news media have b...
Aquaculture.
The name itself may conjure an image of a pristine pond, fed by a crystal clear spring. But names can be deceiving. In fact, aquaculture – the name we’ve given commercial fish farming – produces some o...
by Jon Herring
Most people eat naturally-raised meats and organic produce because they want to avoid pesticides and antibiotics and because these foods are more nutrient rich than conventional meat and produce. But there is another important reason ...
by Mort Mather
In my last article , I discussed how to get started with your first vegetable garden and advised beginners to start small, a 6 x 6 plot being a good size to grow your own salad greens, pole beans, or potatoes. When you’ve seen su...
What do you call the impact you make on the planet when you cook?
It’s your “cookprint”— the entire chain of resources used to prepare meals, and the waste produced in the process.
The cookprint starts with f...
Over 1 million plastic bags are being consumed every minute.
Some of the plastic bags will end up in our landfills and eventually break down into tiny toxic bits polluting our soil, river, lakes and oceans.
Th...
by James B. LaValle
You may be certain that your plate is full of healthy food… but the truth might surprise you. Your tomatoes, corn, soybeans, Hawaiian papaya, zucchini, crooked neck squash, and even ice cream could have genes from cloned fi...
by Dr. Jonny Bowden
Ever since I wrote Living the Low Carb Life in 2004, I’ve been asked to defend my statement that meat is a healthy food. Truth be told, it’s a hard statement to defend these days — but not because meat is inherently u...
At every meal or snack, I aim to pack the most benefits into every bite. This means choosing lean, organic sources of protein, fiber-rich legumes and a base of phytonutrient-rich fruits and veggies that are full of age-defying and d...
by Laura B. LaValle
A diet high in protein may be your best choice to control both weight gain and insulin resistance. But that doesn’t mean just any protein. While plant proteins like beans and legumes are very healthy, they are much higher in carb...
If you’re concerned about your own health and the health of our planet, chances are you’ve started serving sustainable seafood. If not, here’s why you should.
Recent studies show that there will be virtually nothin...
Need another reason to go organic? How about getting more disease-fighting nutrients per calorie?
The Organic Center recently evaluated the nutritional quality of organic foods versus those grown conventionally. In their review of 9...
A healthy low-carb diet can and should include plenty of low-glycemic plant foods (non-starchy vegetables, beans and legumes, nuts and seeds). That being said, following a low-carb diet still means eating large amounts of protein and th...
Across the globe, unsustainable fishing practices and habitat destruction pose threat to the oceans, marine animals and seafood we love.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
In fact, responsible harvesting, advances in fish farmi...
Biodynamic wines are crafted using the principles of biodynamic agriculture. In recent years, the practice of biodynamics in viticulture - or grape growing - has become popular, especially in Europe.Biodynamic agriculture stems fro...
Research studies continue to mount on the beneficial effects of organic produce. Not only do you avoid many of the toxic pesticides that "conventionally" grown produce, but new studies suggest you also boost your intake o...
Evidence continues to mount on the many ways in which small doses of pesticides adversely affect health-especially during critical periods of fetal development and childhood. Because pesticides aren't listed on labels lik...
The pursuit of getting more fresh produce in our diets has left many people, well, a bit pithy. Those unripe tomatoes stocking supermarket bins now pale in comparison to the juicy, harvest-fresh summer beauties we gobble straight f...
If you’re like 400 million Americans, you enjoy java. On average, U.S. coffee drinkers consume three and a half cups a day apiece. Choosing coffee that’s organically grown can help reduce your exposure to harmful pestici...
Whole foods are foods in their most natural, unaltered forms—just the way nature intended. Wholesome and free from processing or adulterating, whole foods were custom designed by Mother Nature to fuel our bodies with a wide ar...
Not only organic foods better for the environment, but recent research shows they're also better for your health.
A study conducted at the University of California at Davis, showed that organic foods have significantly higher a...
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