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Dietary Concerns: 'Sesame Street' Hit Hard - Debuts Starving Muppet
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Friday, October 14, 2011. Sesame Street' Hit Hard - Debuts Starving Muppet. This week "Sesame Street" unveiled a new Muppet character named Lily, a 7-year-old girl representing one of the 17 million American children that the Department of Agriculture estimates are "food insecure," meaning their access to food is limited or uncertain. Here's a clip from this "very special episode":. But thankfully the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act. In reading about show's ...
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Dietary Concerns: A Wholesaler's Campaign for Better Ingredients
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Thursday, November 3, 2011. A Wholesaler's Campaign for Better Ingredients. One of my favorite food writers is Mark Bittman. A columnist for The New York Times. Opinion section and Times. Magazine. Every Tuesday, Bittman offers his take on current food issues and their impact on our health and the environment. His commentary also extends to the Times. Website, where he writes a blog called On Food. While Bittman points out before printing the letter in its...
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Dietary Concerns: McAmerica
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Friday, November 11, 2011. A map of every McDonald's in the United States has been making its way around the blogosphere after it was posted. On Reddit and then picked up. By the aggregators at HuffPo. For your review:. While the image is getting some attention now, it was actually created in 2009 by artist and scientist Stephen Von Worley, whose blog Data Pointed. Offers a wealth of data visualization research (be warned, it's quite the time waster).
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Dietary Concerns: September 2011
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Friday, September 30, 2011. This week was that at least 13 people in eights states died after eating cantaloupe contaminated with listeria, a bacteria that can be very dangerous to the elderly or those with weak immune systems. The cantaloupes were grown by the Colorado company Jensen Farms, which recalled. Coincidentally, on Tuesday the Food and Drug Administration lifted import restrictions. In fact, as Gretchen Goetz reports. In Food Safety News. When c...
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Dietary Concerns: Are the Kids All Right?
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Thursday, October 6, 2011. Are the Kids All Right? In previous posts I've discussed the alarming statistic. That nearly 20 percent of children ages 6-11 years in the U.S. are obese. Fortunately, this statistic has also had an impact on the current administration - Michelle Obama announced a nationwide campaign called " Let's Move. The "Let's Move" campaign is comprised of four strategies to lower childhood obesity rates:. Focus more on physical education.
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Dietary Concerns: Food For Thought
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Thursday, November 24, 2011. Today is Thanksgiving, and before we start giving thanks for our deep-fried turkeys. And $200 flat-screens, we should all take a moment to consider the issue of food insecurity in this country. In a previous post. While Jamison barks orders at a group of Harvard kids who are volunteering that day, Lawson stands quietly by a waiting truck at the opening of the warehouse. You’d easily mistake the warehouse for a junkyar...Jamison...
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Dietary Concerns: A Fresh Nation Follow-Up
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Friday, November 25, 2011. A Fresh Nation Follow-Up. As promised, here is my follow-up to my interview. Last week with Hannah Pullman about Fresh Nation Farmers Markets. On its website. Fresh Nation describes its mission as being "to foster strong and enduring relationships between farmers, food artisans, and consumers to bring local, healthy eating into the mainstream of American life.". While the market features many returning vendors from Fresh Nation's...
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Dietary Concerns: Eating for the Future
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Thursday, December 1, 2011. Eating for the Future. People have a variety of motives for becoming vegan: in my first blog post. I discussed how unsustainable food production practices drove me to give up meat; and in my interview. With Hannah Pullman, she said she became vegan for moral reasons. With meat being the major contributor to that number ( 80 percent of agricultural emissions stem from meat production. On its website, the magazine New Scientist.
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Dietary Concerns: A Meatless Interview With A Real Life Vegan
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Thursday, November 17, 2011. A Meatless Interview With A Real Life Vegan. This week I had the opportunity to interview Hannah Pullman (center in the picture below) who is part of the team behind Fresh Nation Farmers Market. Fresh Nation's strategy is to partner with shopping centers in order to bring local food to the masses. So far, the company has one location in Connecticut's Danbury Fair Mall - you can learn more about the company on its website. Over ...
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Dietary Concerns: Breaking News: Pizza Is a Vegetable
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Thoughts on adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Friday, November 18, 2011. Breaking News: Pizza Is a Vegetable. This overhaul in a previous blog post: at the beginning of October I wrote about the The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which President Obama signed into law towards the end of 2010. One aspect of the law was that it gave the Department of Agriculture the authority to set nutritional standards for all foods sold in schools during the school day, including vending machines. Of course, now we're...
