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Practicing Gratitude on Thanksgiving is A Powerful Action for Health and Happiness
Thanksgiving can be about more that putting up with annoying relatives, gorging on a dead bird, and passing out in a football-enhanced stupor. In fact, Thanksgiving can be an opportunity to practice one of the most powerful health-promoting actions that exist. Giving thanks. Gratitude, it turns out, makes you happier and healthier. If you invest…
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Big Beef’s In Big Trouble
Big beef is having a cow over this. The USDA and the US Department of Health & Human Services are updating their dietary guidelines, as they do every 5 years. But this time, as far Big Beef is concerned, something has gone terribly wrong. It all started innocently enough, when the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for…
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Vermont Attorney General’s Office Releases Draft GMO Labeling Rules
In Vermont, GMO labeling law goes into effect July 2016. However, a lawsuit has been filed by food companies. Who will prevail? Vermont will hopefully be the first state in the nation to require the labeling of food made with genetically modified organisms. The right to label was hard won in a fight against biotech…
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Bill Nye on GMOs
This is a powerful and entertaining explanation of GMOs. You can share this with friends who just don’t get it. Make sure to check out the part that starts at 6:27.
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The Definitive Guide to Community Supported Agriculture
This article was originally published on CustomMade.com. Community Supported Agriculture is having its moment. Across the country, more and more people are signing up for farm shares, looking to benefit from a sense of community, healthier environments, and fresh, wholesome food. But despite its increasing popularity, community supported agriculture is still hardly a common term at…
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Broccoli Makes You Happy
You already know that vegetables are good for your health. But did you know that they are also good for your mood? A new study led by researchers in New Zealand and published in the British Journal of Healthy Psychology found that eating fruits and vegetables is associated with greater flourishing in daily life. The…
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Ruin is forever: When the precautionary principle is justified
Originally published on Resource Insights (ResourceInsights.Blogspot.com) by Kurt Cobb. Click here to view the original. If you are dead, you cannot mount a comeback. If all life on Earth were destroyed by, say, a large comet impact, there would be no revival. Ruin is forever. The destruction of all life on Earth is not 10 times worse than…
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Cancer deaths double in Argentina’s GMO and intensive cropping areas
Originally published on GMeducation.org by Lawrence Woodward. Click here to view the original. (6th July 2014) A report by the Ministry of Health in Córdoba, Argentina reveals that deaths from cancerous tumours are double the national average in areas where genetically engineered crops are grown and agro-chemicals are used. This comprehensive report documented five years…
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Look Who’s Spent $100,000,000 To Keep Americans Eating In The Dark
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) sounds friendly enough. The word “grocer” brings to mind wholesome mom-and-pop shops out to feed the community. But the GMA is not an association of small-time corner stores. In reality the GMA represents the arguably sordid interests of its members – some of the biggest junk food and pesticide companies…
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The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier
Our world is pretty messed up. With all the violence, pollution and crazy things people do, it would be easy to turn into a grouchy old man without being either elderly or male. There’s certainly no shortage of justification for disappointment and cynicism. But consider this: Negative attitudes are bad for you. And gratitude, it…
