Bring on the starch, for your health!

Starch Still Getting a Bad Rap
By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.
 
Just after the new year on the NBC Today Show, a young, energetic woman was ladling advice about getting and staying fit by exercising and eating right, catering, I suppose, to the throng that had just sworn to do so just a bit earlier, at or around midnight December 31st.
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You'll love the LOVE Diet: Locally Sourced, Organically Grown, Vegetable-Based, Ecologically Natural

Food Shed Crumbs (for thought)
By Don Wilkin, Ph.D.

If I get my way, the Foodshed Co-op will offer the healthiest diet in the world, the LOVE* Diet.  The LOVE* Diet is . . .

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Thanksgiving 2015: Don't be S.A.D.

Killing Ourselves (slowly) with Our Knives and Forks

By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.

Thanksgiving Thursday, November 27th, Breakfast, Drury Inn, Joplin, Missouri. Piggin’ out on rolled oats. A darling, maybe 10 year old, girl heads for a table to join her family, taking care to not drop or spill her food. Like the old song says, “it’s a wonderful sight when the family unites.”

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More intensive wildlife/livestock grazing needed to restore carbon balance

Another Side to the Meat / Climate Change Issue
By Don Wilkin, Ph.D.

I try to eat strictly vegan, less out of moral or climate-change considerations than to reverse the ravages of more than 70 years of the standard American diet (S.A.D.) on my arteries. 

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