Recovery from a broken elbow (clumsy+roller skating = ouch) has made blogging these last few weeks nearly impossible. Just now, I’m getting enough use of my right arm back to type for 10 minutes at a time. Brevity -not my strong suit – has become imperative. On the other hand, being wrenched away from writing gave [...]
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 The Un-Boring Potato: Nutritious, Cheap, and a Beautiful Sight! Make the potato – wholesome, delicious, versatile, cheap – into the villain. Make Kraft’s Stove Top – nutritionally devoid, scary sugary chemical concoction – into the hero and YOU could win a $100 gift card!!! C’mon bloggers, sell your soul for a chance to win a measly $100! [...] That’s Dr. Lidy Pelsser of the ADHD Research Center in the Netherlands talking. In a groundbreaking study, researchers found that diet alone basically reversed moderate to severe cases of ADHD. We’re not talking about kids with sugar highs here, we’re talking kids that have been clinically diagnosed. Basically, someone finally got around to testing the Feingold Diet [...]  It was great to be interviewed by Foodia’s Tastemakers blog last week – it delves a little deeper into some themes that have been weighing heavily (pun intended) on my mind lately. You can read the whole interview here, but here are some excerpts I thought worth sharing: Q. What are some of the changes that need [...]  The only scale my daughter will ever be subjected to… Anti-Obesity. The phrase is so common in my circles I barely even see it any more. And yet, when I get blogged without my permission by an anti-obesity website, I am forced to pay attention. I cringe to have my work or words characterized under a [...] Nobody can be shamed or scared into eating better – over 50 years of research shows it just doesn’t work. Wait, what’s the definition of insanity again? Oh right — doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that definition, we are a nation of insane eaters. If we want the next [...]  Silicon Valley is a shockingly inequitable community with a sad legacy of pollution and shortsighted land use decisions. With more superfunds per acre than anywhere else in the country, the high-tech industry has made this valley home to many of the country’s top one percent of earners. It’s also the same industry that has polluted our lands [...] Today in the San Jose Mercury, Hank Herrera and I make the case for an urban agricultural land trust, moving beyond dot-com to model a new economy in what was once The Valley of Heart’s Delight! Farms should be the new new thing for Silicon Valley It’s time for us to start connecting the dots between children’s health, food [...]  Did you know that the number of small farms in California is actually increasing? For the last decade, California has gained an average of 680 farms between 1-9 acres, and 160 farms between 10-49 acres each year. Many of these new farms are urban and urban-edge sustainable agriculture like Veggielution in San Jose or Dig Deep [...]  Today, the kick-ass iconoclast food blogger Food Renegade posted a fascinating article about the resurgence of rickets in kids (a degenerative bone disease caused by lack of bioavailable vitamin D) despite sun exposure and plenty of synthetic vitamin D in everything from milk to breakfast cereal. If kids ARE getting enough sunshine, AND they’re getting plenty of vitamin [...] |
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