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Corn: The American Staple Diet
Whether you eat corn or not, chances are corn already forms a huge part of your diet. This is due in large part to the Farm Bill, an agricultural and food policy tool passed by the US Congress to reduce hunger and control food prices. While it is primarily used to help US farmers, it has become increasingly less successful at doing so. Under [...]
Why Compost?
I realize I am speaking with an eco-savvy group here. Nonetheless, I wanted to share a few astonishing facts that inspire me (and I hope you, too) to urgent action: New Yorkers throw out 32 million pounds of household garbage per day. That’s just residential (less than 25% of the total), and that does not include personal trash generated [...]
Protect Yourself From Radiation by Eating!
As the nuclear industry scrambles to reassure us we are all safe from a catastrophe like Japan’s, the risk of radioactive fallout in the US is very real. Here is a reprint from an article by GCC contributor John Kozinski, teaching us about what foods we can eat in case of radiation exposure. As the crisis in Japan unfolds, there is [...]
How Big, Cheap and Fast Do We Want to Be?
We live in a country where about 80% of the population is overweight, and almost one-third is considered obese. For the first time, babies born in America now have a shorter average life expectancy than their parents, due to obesity. In 1930, Americans spent 24.5% of their income on food; in 2004, that number went down to 9.5%. We've all been [...]
Healthy Eating Habits
Every few years, the U.S. government comes out with a new and improved food pyramid. It’s supposed to offer guidelines about the best way to feed your family. Unfortunately, concern for your family’s health and well being was not at the forefront when the food pyramid was designed. The meat and dairy industries as well as the agriculture [...]
Let’s Talk About Food
With all the choices we have, how do you choose what to eat? How can you balance a healthy diet and still eat food that you like? How adventurous are you with what you eat? Why are some people vegans and vegetarians and what does that mean? We are pretty lucky in New York that we have farmers markets all over the city, usually within walking [...]
