Great post by Chris Kresser, also known as The Healthy Skeptic, although these days he’s just blogging under his name. Usually focusing how to be healthy by what food you put in your body, particularly for pregnant women, Kresser takes a step back and looks at the value of measuring overall health. Not just what […]
Interesting follow-up article to a post I linked to earlier this week about people creating “food corridors” in Olympia, WA; according to this study, simply installing grocery stores “oases” doesn’t solve the problem: There was never much hard science linking the obesity epidemic to so-called food deserts – inner city neighborhoods lacking stores selling fresh […]
This month, kick your self-maintenance into high gear! Image via Wikipedia Interested in joining me for a little “me” time? How about a whole month of it? My mother and I have decided that for June, 2011, we are going to be totally self-centered. That’s right, we are going to focus entirely on ourselves; our […]
Just read about this cool example of urban farming: Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in good ol’ New York City. From the site: On the shoreline of the East River and with a sweeping view of the Manhattan skyline, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a 6,000 square foot green roof organic vegetable farm located atop a warehouse […]
So much for my New Year’s Resolution “Eat Healthier,” and good reminder that it’s all relative; although, in my defense, my definition of healthy may be a little more stringent than the average American: Nine in 10 Americans say their diet is healthy but only a quarter limit the amount of fat or sugar they […]
