Balanced Diet
Vegetarianism for All? By Ruth Sackman
May 7, 2020 - Category: Balanced Diet
There's a popular belief today that if you really care about animals and are serious about health, you should be a pure vegetarian, better yet vegan or raw food-tarian. Drawing on over 40 years of experience, Ruth Sackman, (1915-2008), FACT co-founder and former president, saw things differently. Here's her take on why the completely fleshfree…Vegetarianism for All? By Ruth Sackman
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May 7, 2020 - Category: Balanced Diet
First of all, let's get over the idea that there is, or will ever be, a miracle food, herb or drug for brain health. What's good for the whole body - food-, exercise-, sleep-, mind-wise - is also what's good for the brain. Today we have an epidemic of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases,…The Well Nourished Brain
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May 7, 2020 - Category: Balanced Diet
There's big money to be made these days, especially for sports stars, in celebrity endorsements of brand name products, After all, these guys are role models for kids of all ages. So rather than touting the virtues of veggies and grass-fed steak, super athletes are most often found on Frosted Flakes boxes or in TV…Tom Brady Deflates Junk Food!
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Human beings have been producing cultured foods and beverages for at least 7-8,000 years - wine, beer, yogurt, kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers, to name just a few. Unfortunately, "progress" in industrial food production has largely eclipsed these traditional ways and we're missing out on the wonderful benefits they have to offer. Enter Sandor Ellix…The Art (and Joy) of Fermentation
...Symptoms Associated With A Change In Diet By Ruth Sackman
May 7, 2020 - Category: Balanced Diet
When we change our diet to one that is balanced and using better quality food, we need to do it gradually to give our body a chance to adjust. The improved nutrition will produce better quality cells that will replace old, weak and diseased cells. It will also improve immune function.Since the blood washes the…Symptoms Associated With A Change In Diet By Ruth Sackman
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May 7, 2020 - Category: Balanced Diet
There’s a myth afoot in the Environmental/Health Movement, that, if you’re really serious about saving the planet and being healthy, you have to stop eating meat! After all, don’t animals produce methane that increases global warming and doesn’t meat contains all kinds of hormones, antibiotics and other stuff bad for human well-being?The reality is, there…Saving Our Planet: It’s Not The Cow; It’s The How
...Is Organic Worth The Expense? By Marion Nestle
May 7, 2020 - Category: Balanced Diet
A recent Stanford University study caused a big flurry when it concluded that organically-grown food is not necessarily more nutritious than factory-farmed, though organic had fewer pesticides.Many criticized the study because it was based on a questionable evaluation of previous studies and for its very narrow concept of "nutritious"as just about nutrients rather than the…Is Organic Worth The Expense? By Marion Nestle
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May 7, 2020 - Category: Balanced Diet
American supermarkets today - vast caverns of colorful canned, boxed, frozen, fresh "goods" - dazzle the eyes and project an image of aplenty in the Land of the Free. And the prices are low. Americans spend on average less than 7% of their income on food, far less than in other countries. But cheap food…Why Organic Food Is Really the Least Expensive Food on Earth
...Have Snack, Will Travel By Consuelo Reyes
May 7, 2020 - Category: Balanced Diet
In early times - as in really early, like Prehistoric (before plastic bags or instant anything) - if people got hungry going about their daily drill, they could usually find something chemical or additive free to munch along the way, like berries, shoots or roots. Of course, there was the occasional poison mushroom, but in…Have Snack, Will Travel By Consuelo Reyes
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Genetically-modified (GM) foods were first introduced on a commercial basis in the United States in the mid-1990's. The new technology made it possible to splice desirable qualities from one species into another - such as inserting the gene that keeps a flounder from freezing in cold water into a tomato for longer cold temperature storage.…Genetic Modification (GM) – Seeds of Controversy By John Tarleton
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