Kind of. The thing with measuring health these days is that everyone is grading on a curve. For example, people in the United States are by-and-large fat, but Coloradans are less fat than most. Something to be proud of? Sure, …
Okay, so it’s not really a secret, but it’s not exactly common knowledge either. Turns out there is a merry band of earthy custodians who play a sort of collective Robin Hood to the land. They sift through the soil, …
Can Coca-Cola kill you? Not exactly, but according to a new study by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health, it and other sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to 184,000 deaths globally each year. The study, presented at an American Heart …
We live in a technical, “connected” world. Whether or not a digitally tethered populace is a good (and collectively healthy) thing in the big picture is a post for another day. But the reality is that technology isn’t going anywhere …
At least that’s the idea, when David Backus gets Local Organic Lunch off the ground. Backus is no ordinary meal peddler. All of his offerings are raw, vegan, organic, non-GMO, gluten-free and soy-free. And he’s launching to the denizens of …
After a bleak beginning to 2013, the anti-GMO lobby got encouraging news last week, when Whole Foods Market announced that by 2018, it will require all products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be labeled as such. “While we are …
On February 21, HB 1192 was voted down by a 7 to 2 margin after hours of emotional testimony. This bill would have defined what it means to be “genetically engineered” and would have required a person selling, distributing, or …
Over a Happy Hour beer with a friend, I recently confessed to something I have told no one: I’m addicted to the Biggest Loser. So is my husband. So are my kids. There, I said it. Each Monday night for …
Real ingredients. Real food. Real good. People are realizing this in droves, waking up from a decades-long slumber where food production is concerned. And many are taking it one step further, by becoming intimately connected to the source of those …
Before grabbing that package of pork chops on your next shopping trip, take a moment to consider this: It almost surely contains potentially harmful bacteria, and chances are good that if those tiny microbes manage to make you sick, it …
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