Tag: Diet - Page 12
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20 Gut-Wrenching Statistics About the Destruction of the Planet and those Living Upon It
Every so often it is good to remind ourselves why we are working so hard to protect the environment and all its creatures. While many of these statistics are depressing, the good news is that we are currently working towards a
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S-COOP is a New Form of Money
The old forms of money aren't working anymore--no one has any--so bartering and swapping are becoming more popular as a way to exchange goods for services without laying out any cash. In Lewes East Sussex, they have printed their own money--the Lewes
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Innocent Sells (Out?) to Coca Cola
It's becoming a familiar story: little ethical company starts up, becomes a success and is bought by huge multi-national. There was Green & Black chocolate, Body Shop, Ben & Jerry's and now the little yoghurt shake that grew:
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20 Ways to Recycle Your Leftover Matzah
Tonight is the first night of Passover. During the eight days of this holiday, Jews all over the world eat matzah. Matzah is unleavened bread, made from flour and water and cooked very quickly. This is the bread that the Jews made for their flight
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Good News For Sharks: Appetite For Shark Fin Soup Down With Greater Awareness & Recession
TreeHugger has covered the plight of sharks being hunted to extinction just for their fins on a number of occasions. Most of the time the news is grim, but a new piece by Reuters is, for once, encouraging. There's a good
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Observer Food Awards Feature Healthy, Ethical Winners
The Observer newspaper Food Awards show how the range of foods available in the UK has changed; no longer a country of turnips and beer, the awards celebrate the ingenuity and dedication of producers involved in the British food
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Corn Syrup vs. Sugar: Which is sweeter for your diet?
In an article published Friday in the New York Times, Kim Severson reports on how food manufacturers are moving away from using low-priced but high calorie corn syrup to sugar. The reason: customer perception. What, did you expect health and
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Fast Food Trash: How to Reduce Your Waste (Video)
The Enviromentals Take on Fast Food Waste On Friday I wrote about a very funny, and very useful, video about how to build your own worm composter, which was brought to us by The Enviromentals - aka Hal Brindley and Leigh Ramsdell of Dodo Films. Now the
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Seven Ways to Eat Green (and Inadvertently Lose Weight)
With the U.S. ranking as the fattest country in the world and therefore home to most of the world’s weight conscious, I’ve often marveled over the fact that the emerging green food movement is never touted as a diet—even
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Blue Dog Bakery Serves Up Lip-Lickin Treats For Dogs
The latest savory creations from Blue Dog Bakery are meat, meat and meat in the form of Grilled Steak, Roasted Chicken, Liver and Beef & Bacon dog treats. Blue Dog Bakery prides itself on making dog treats with all
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Teaching Kids How To Make Lunch Boxes Reduces Food Waste
Image from blogadilla Bento, the Japanese lunch box, is a social phenomena that you could say reaches deep into the psyche here, touching on deep strings between children and their mother, wife and husband, lonely salarimen and their usb-powered meal
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How Cheap Food Distorts Our Choices and Makes Us Fat
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Jamie Oliver Opens His Own Store
Jamie Oliver, aka The Naked Chef, is not your average celebrity chef. He has led a varied and public-minded career. He has a t.v. show, has written cook books, and opened a restaurant training under-privileged young people to be
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Mountain Rose Herbs - Improve Your Health With Green Herbs
Image via: Mountain Rose Herbs Mountain Rose Herbs not only want to improve your health through the use of herbs and tea, but they want to use sustainable practices and products in the process. Hey, why go to all of that effort of healing your body if
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School Lunch: What Do The Kids Eat?
In many countries, schools serve a lunch meal to the children. This is an important source of nutritients and calories for many kids but due to budgetary restraints or lack of information (and/or imagination) the food is often bland
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Expired Food is Much Desired
Food wastage is a big topic. TreeHugger has covered some of the issues: the apples of less than perfect shape that supermarkets refuse to sell. The regulations by the European Union forbidding the sale of certain kinds of fruits
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Promoting a New Way of 'Life' in Turkey
As I sip on an 'immunity-boosting' smoothie and nibble at flaxseed tacos, the conversations going on around me are all in Turkish, but the food seems decidedly Californian. In some ways, that's been a hard combination for Istanbul to swallow.
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15 Healthful, Green Reasons Why You Should be Having Sex... Right Now!
From my experiences as a sex columnist, it just never seems to amaze me of all the healthful reasons for having a plentiful sex life. The most recent Durex Global Sex Survey shows that there are unfortunately a number of
