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  • 10 Alternative Steps for Staying Healthy
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  • Myth: Sugar is toxic
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  • Myth: Avoiding grains (i.e. the Paleo diet) is true to our ancestors
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  • Recipe: Whole Fruit Pops
  • Myth: You should cut out gluten to lose weight or be healthy
  • A look at the bright side of overfishing…
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  • Myth: Climate change is years from affecting our food supply
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  • Slow Food’s slow decline
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  • Myth: Genetically Modified Foods are safe to eat
  • Playing the Blame Game with Soda
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  • Recipe: Cooling Cherry Granita with Mint
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  • 1 Promising and 9 Scary Facts about the State of the Planet
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  • Myth: Complimentary proteins should be eaten together
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  • Myth: To maximize your workout, join a gym
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  • Myth: Coffee is bad for you
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  • Myth: Exercising at a low intensity burns more fat
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  • Myth: Craving a food means your body is lacking those nutrients.
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Silencing ‘Ag-Gag’ Bills

Published April 11, 2013 at 9:00 am - No Comments

I want to shed some light on an  appalling trend in legislation, that has emerged in the last 12 months: Ag-Gag bills.  I’m hoping that with a catchy name, people will listen and lobbyists won’t have a fighting chance of getting more of these nonsense bills passed. Basically, Ag-Gag is a term for any proposed [...]

10 Alternative Steps for Staying Healthy

Published April 4, 2013 at 9:00 am - No Comments

Let’s play a visualization game.  I’d ask you to close your eyes, but since I don’t have voice over for this blog post, I’ll just ask you to read slowly and really think about this: Think of the last time you were hungry.  A time when your stomach ached with emptiness and growled for food.  [...]

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