Willpower
Are we just losing our willpower year by year? About a third of people in nine states were obese in 2009, a dramatic increase from 2007, when only three states had obesity rates that high, a new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. USA Today has a frightening map of obesity [...]
Local Tomatoes at Pawtuxet Village Farmer’s Market
From Steve Stycos: TOMATOES Tomato season is beginning at the Pawtuxet Village Farmers. Real tomatoes are an unmatched summer treat, whether cooked or fresh. In recent years, supermarkets have presented vine ripened tomatoes year round. A March New York Times article detailed how they are grown. Quaint sounding Backyard Farms in Maine grows its tomatoes [...]
Chipotle Chips in For Better School Lunches
One of the better food places to locate in Cranston of late is the Chipotle in Garden City. So imagine my delight when I heard that they are sponsoring a campaign to give $50,000 to a fund to improve the quality of school lunches. From a blog called Love and Trash: “We don’t like junk. [...]
Amazing Health Benefits of Coffee
This article summarizes research on coffee’s benefits. Enjoy your java as you read!
Arsenic, Lead, and Cadmium in “Healthy” Protein Shakes
Here is some news from Consumer Reports on the quality of drinkable meals out there. The full report is available to subscribers (click here to go to Consumer Reports’ preview of the article). Here is a little more information from Web MD: Consumer Reports says these three products are of special concern: EAS Myoplex Original [...]
How to Eat Less Pesticides
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has two lists to help us eat less pesticides in fruits and vegetables — the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen. Dr. Andrew Weil makes the argument that reducing pesticides in our body tissue helps to reduce the risk of problems with your nervous system, your endocrine system, and other [...]
Update from Steve Stycos
We are on the Vineyard this week, which is wonderful. It’s quieter here this year, results of a difficult economy no doubt. It was interesting to get Mr. Stycos’s update, which starts with a small piece on “Pigs on Drugs” and the good news that the farmers at the Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market sell organic [...]
Just Say No to Mr. Pistachio
Looks like pistachios are joining the legions of foods now suspected of salmonella contamination. From the FDA: The FDA and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) are investigating Salmonella contamination in pistachio products sold by Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc, Calif. The company has stopped all distribution of processed pistachios and will issue [...]
A Sip of Water, a Taste of Sweetness
Growing up in the Rapture-ready 70′s gives you a weird outlook, a kind of survivalist sense. I always wonder how you take care of people without the machines that go beep. A spoonful of sugar to save a life. That’s cool.
Working Conditions Not Kosher, and Neither is Food
Nomi at I Dreamed I saw Grace P. Last Night has a link to a fascinating op-ed from Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld concerning an immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant. The raid uncovered horrific working conditions. The Rabbi cites a precedent for declaring food non-kosher because of the mistreatment of the workers who prepare it. [...]
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