nutrition

Fresh – New Thinking About What We’re Eating

If Food, Inc. had you feeling sad and angry about all that is corrupt and unhealthy about our industrial food system, Fresh, The Movie presents a vision of the possible by profiling heroes all over the country who are changing the way we eat for the better. Fresh shows us how a sustainable food system [...]

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Got a Beef with Beef? Try Traditional Tartare!

Many people give animal foods a bad rap, blaming them for cancer, heart disease and a host of other health problems. But humans have been eating mostly animal products for our entire existence. In fact, the healthiest and longest-lived peoples on our planet, the Okinawans (Japan), Maasai (Kenya and Tanzania) and Hunzakuts (Pakistan) eat traditional [...]

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The Real Cause of Tooth Decay (and How to Stop it Naturally)

Ever wonder why some people seldom brush their teeth and have no cavities, but others brush and floss religiously and still have dental problems? Here’s why.

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Protecting Your Children’s Teeth, Part 1

My husband and I have a history of lots of painful dental work and orthodonture, and both of us have mouthfuls of toxic mercury fillings we wish we had had an alternative for when we were young. (Dating ourselves here, I guess!). Now that Babyzilla has 8 teeth, we are particularly concerned that they remain [...]

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Fixing Our Broken Food System, Part 2

In the tradition of Michael Moore (Sicko, Bowling for Columbine) and Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, 30 Days), Food Matters is a hard hitting, fast-paced look at our current state of health. Discouraged by the terrible side effects that pharmaceutical drugs were having on the health of their families, nutritionists-turned-filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch set off on [...]

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Fixing Our Broken Food System, Part 1

I am studying for an MS in holistic nutrition, and as a result, learning more and more about our industrialized food system, and its related health problems such as obesity, diabetes, allergies, cancer and more. The more I learn, the more uppity I am becoming about food. Next to air and water, food is our most [...]

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