As I tentatively begin to step into the pristine landscape of 2013 and leave my footsteps behind me, it seems inevitable that I would look back at the past 12 months and contemplate the year that was 2012. What a whirlwind year it was, after pulling myself out of a personal year-long hell in 2011. [...]
Category: Health and nutrition
Guest blog: Water quality and your food safety
Food Safety Concerns Drive Research By Susanna Eden and Katharine Mitchell, WRRC Graduate Outreach Assistant Fungicide in orange juice, Arsenic in apple juice, Listeria in cantaloupe--these are the latest “food safety issues you care about” listed at foodandwaterwatch.org. But how important are these issues? The public can see Food and Drug Administration reports on all three by [...]
Guest column: The Dodd-Frank Net Might Ensnare the Family Meal
By Don CourseyAmeritech Professor of Public Policy StudiesHarris School of the University of ChicagoFederal regulators recently roiled America's farmers with the release of new rules for financial instruments. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, one of the agencies charged with implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, officially announced the new requirements and said they would [...]
Streamlined healthy passions on Facebook
I finally just went ahead and did it. About four or five months ago when I first began to blog seriously about my passions, I had likewise fiddled with the idea of starting up a Facebook page to specifically broadcast my posts on holistic health & lifestyle, cooking, gardening, etc. I fiddled with Facebook, figuring [...]
Healthy eating: Room at the table for Fluffy and Spot?
I remember the first time I heard of someone feeding their pets “people food” as a health boost. A friend of mine would give his dogs a leg of whatever animal happened to be on the human menu that day, “to help shine their coats and clean their teeth,” he said. I was about 16- [...]
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