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Tableware for the Slow Food Movement: Plate Tells You When You Are Eating Too Fast
The Mandometer was originally developed to treat eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa; it was developed to "teach patients how to eat and recognize hunger and satiety." There are clinics using the technology in Sweden, the USA and
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Bioneers 2009: Michael Pollan Drinks Oil
Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers 2009 - a weekend-long gathering in San Rafael, California of social and scientific innovators focused on environmental issues - kicked off on Friday with Michael Pollan as a headlining speaker. His talk came in the
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Michael Pollan's Dietary Rules To Eat By
The New York Times devotes an entire issue of the magazine to food, and of course, Michael Pollan has a place on the menu. He takes our our beloved KFC double down sandwich, Froot Loops being a smart choice, and
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Surprising Agreement On The Connection Between Obesity and Healthcare Costs
Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times about the connection between the American diet and the cost of health care; Surprisingly, conservative writers like Marie-Josée Kravis are saying much the same thing,
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Quote of the Day: Michael Pollan on Boycotting Whole Foods
TreeHugger has covered the issue: Whole Foods CEO Causes Scandal Over Anti-'Obamacare' Article and asked our readers: Should "Progressives" Boycott Whole Foods Over CEO's Statements on Health Care? Now Michael Pollan gives his (I think sensible)
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Michael Pollan on How No One Cooks Any More
Michael Pollan wonders in the New York Times why there has been such a proliferation of shows on food, even a whole food network, not to mention Emeril and others on Planet Green. But Pollan notes that in fact
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Chat Today With the Famous Omnivore, Michael Pollan
O.K., yes I have a crush on Michael Pollan and have had ever since I interviewed him during an infamous Portland ice storm. And yes, my husband knows. And yes, Michael Pollan is married. But also, big yes, as part of the press around the opening of the
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A Trip to Italy and Michael Pollan, Too
I can see the allure of a beach vacation if you lead a high-powered life and you need a week to stretch out and do nothing but read and swim and drink fancy cocktails. Personally, I like some intellectual stimulation when I travel. I want to learn
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Survey: Do You Prefer Sugar To HFCS?
Pepsi is proudly selling a premium pop made with real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, a substance that we have criticized here and here. Daniel asked Corn Syrup vs. Sugar: Which is sweeter for your diet? and we ask you: Sugar, HFCS or
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How Cheap Food Distorts Our Choices and Makes Us Fat
900 Calories
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Survey: Can a Burger and Fries Be Green?
In Kristen's post on the Burger Lounge, she notes that they use sustainably raised happy meat, transfat free oils for the fries and onion rings, and you can follow it up with a cupcake "baked daily from real ingredients, by real people" for dessert.
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New Yorkers and Food Politics
I was surprised the other morning when Brian Lehrer, on his eponymous WNYC radio show, stated that he had received 600 comments suggesting Michael Pollan as
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Film Review: Food Fight Is (Mostly) Delicious
Food Fight opens with a bit of history about food production and America's eating habits over the past half century. Beautifully shot and well written, we are treated to a series of interviews with food luminaries such as Alice Waters, Dan Barber,
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Obama Cites Michael Pollan's Sun-Food Agenda
In a recent National Public Radio interview, Michael Pollan talks about how he was approached by a Democratic party staffer about his New York Times article, Farmer in Chief. The article is an open letter to the next
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Michael Pollan Proposes A "Sun-Food" Agenda In Open Letter To Next U.S. President
Writing in The New York Times, Michael Pollan has outlined the way path to a sustainable agriculture strategy for the next U.S. administration. The journalist and
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Monsanto and Michael Pollan Talk About Creating a World That Can Feed Itself
Michael Pollan and Hugh Grant (president and CEO of Monsanto, not the floppy-haired British actor) on the same panel? Bring it. In this 36-minute video, taken on Sept. 17, 2008, Pollan, Grant, and Sonal Shah, a development expert at Google.org, talk
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Review: King Corn- You Are What You Eat
Blame Earl Butz. That is how we started our post on Peak Corn, noting that Richard Nixon's Secretary of Agriculture told farmers to "get big or get out," and to plant crops like corn "from fence row to fence row." Almost forty years later, Director
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Biofuels, Food, and Sustainability Examined: Michael Pollan Interviewed by Yale Univ.
By way of intellectual disclaimer let me say that I’m a big fan of Michael Pollan's work. He shows an uncommon insight and clarity of thought, as well as an ability to synthesize the many strands of what I consider to be the
