Please enjoy a guest post today by Tracy Stevens of Intuity Wellness regarding selecting the healthiest type of milk for your family. Thanks Tracy! “Milk Does a Body Good.” Does it? That’s what the ad campaign in the 1990s told us. But it does definitely depend on the body and the choices you make. Milk […]
Nutrition in the News
What is a GMO?
Today I’m in California to speak about health and nutrition at a symposium on neuromyelitis optica (NMO) hosted by the Guthy-Jackson Foundation. NMO is a rare disease that is often mis-diagnosed as MS, and as always, my emphasis is on eating real, clean whole foods rather than processed, polluted, or otherwise modified foods. What has […]
Drought Drives Up Food Costs; How to Stretch Your Food Budget
As my friend Nonna Joann Bruso predicted, we are seeing rising food prices as the effects of this summer’s drought conditions sink into the food supply chain. Restaurants are responding by shrinking portions or raising prices, but the home cook needs to get creative to stretch the food budget. Here are some tips for making […]
The Non-GMO Project and GMO Labeling
The Environmental Working Group estimates that the average American now consumes more than his or her own body weight in Genetically Modified foods (GMOs) – 193 lbs. – every year. Since the EWG only took into account corn, soybean oil, and sugar beet consumption and there are many other GMO crops infiltrating our food supply, […]
Next Generation GMO Influenza Vaccine Coming Soon
It might seem as if I’ve been on an anti-flu-shot rant for the past few posts. There’s a lot to learn about this government-led public-health push to give everyone flu shots, and I’m not even going to go into who profits from it. I’m more concerned with our health: yours, mine, and our collective wellbeing. […]
