Tag: Food Revolution Network
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Weight of the World: Global Approaches To Tackle Obesity
By Mark Hyman, MD • Originally published on DrHyman.com There are now 2.1 billion people who are overweight in the world. China and India are number one and two in the world in sheer number of type 2 diabetics. In the Middle East, rates of type 2 diabetes are reaching 40 percent of the population. The World…
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Drinking Diet Soda and Not Losing Weight? Blame Your Gut Bacteria
By Jason Best • Originally published on September 18, 2014 on TakePart For a while now, scientists have been gathering compelling evidence that the artificial sweeteners found in diet soda and a slew of processed foods sometimes do the exact opposite of what they’re supposed to. Instead of helping us shed pounds, they increase our…
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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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Forging Social Connections for Longer Life
Jane Brody has long been the personal health editor for the New York Times. Her columns are syndicated in more than 200 major newspapers across the country. Time Magazine called her the “High Priestess of Health.” In a column, she wrote about the loss of her husband, and about the struggle of loneliness that ensued.…
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Changing Labels Won’t Increase Food Prices
As a lobbyist for the food industry, I spent five years fighting proposals that would have raised food prices — ranging from ethanol mandates that drove up the cost of corn and other commodities to taxes that consumers had to pay at the register. At a time when so many Americans have been struggling to…
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Nearly 1 in 3 Restaurant Workers Suffers From Food Insecurity
This article was originally published on TheNation.com and is republished with permission. Read the full text of Michelle Chen’s article here. The person who served you lunch today may be going hungry. Surveys of restaurant workers in the Bay Area and New York City show that after spending long days sating the appetites of customers, they return home…
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Here’s why I’m so passionate about the food revolution
What we eat literally becomes us. It is one of our most intimate communions with the web of life. When we turn our food into a commodity that we consume for the lowest possible price and the highest possible short-term pleasure, without regard for the planet or the humans and animals who may have been involved…
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How Guerrilla Gardeners are Changing the World
I remember the day my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Burkett, told my class about Johnny Appleseed. I couldn’t relate to him, at all. I tried to imagine actually meeting a real person who wore a cooking pot on his head like a hat and scattered apple tree seeds everywhere he went. I remember thinking, “If I’d…
