My fresh, organic garden tomatoes, onions, and garlic simmer away on this early September afternoon, evoking the smells and flavors of my first autumn in northern Italy as a 6-year-old. My maternal grandparents lived on the farm where my mom grew up in the 1920s and ’30s. In the mountains of Piedmont, less than an […]
Author Archives: Stephanie Selene Anderson
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It only costs eight bucks. And it’s a quick read. But Pottenger’s Cats: A Study in Nutrition foretold the nightmarish results of dietary experimentation on the American population. “We now observe in the human race the successive generational decline, exogenously imposed, by a degrading food supply. All this is done not for the good of […]
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Joel Salatin wants to give curious young apprentices hands-on training with the animals at his farm. He wants to sell his neighbor’s pickles and salsa along with his own fresh meat and dairy products. He wants to give educational tours of his farm to classes of young students. Mostly, he wants to empower Americans to […]
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Dubbed the “Fightinist” Leader in Nutritional Science, Dr. Royal Lee led the whole-food nutrition battle against organized medicine, the FDA, and the food manufacturing industry from the 1930s through the early 1960s. He spent a great deal of time in court, standing for the scientific facts that proved whole-food nutrition supported health. Big Medicine and […]
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Food is always in the news because our fight to protect our right to good food is alive and well. And that fight is on 24/7 because of government overreach and overregulation. Imagine people who are willing to work hard on the land and in the barn every day to bring superior nutrition to your […]
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“I’m lactose intolerant, but I have no problem drinking goat milk,” my friend Lauren lamented recently. Lactose intolerance is yet another demon that haunts us these days, so you’re probably hearing your friends and family dealing with it. Let’s look a little closer: Lactose is a simple milk sugar. The lactose in goat milk is […]
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Gluten sensitivity is another demon in what seems an endless march of demons entering our lives each day that we eat farther from the Garden of Traditional Foods. Although many of us have become gluten sensitive, that is not the whole story. Gluten is formed from a combination of naturally occurring proteins in wheat and […]
Has anyone noticed the growth of government lately? Did you ever think you’d be looking over your shoulder just for making personal food choices? You are free to buy cigarettes that the Surgeon General plasters with health warnings on the top 50 percent of both the front and rear panels of each cigarette package. Yes, […]
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Sugar Wins Again
By the time of the Roman Empire, 250 generations of farmers had already reduced the protective nutritional factors in our food, says author Jo Robinson. In this article, Robinson draws the history of food from much earlier beginnings than the previous 100 years we tend to look back on. Many of the wild foods that contain the […]
Where are the honeybees disappearing to? Scientists increasingly believe several interacting factors—from disease-carrying parasites to poor nutrition to pesticides—are responsible for the mass die-off. For instance, studies show that exposure to even nonfatal levels of neonicotinoids may make bees more susceptible to disease. But nothing makes a living creature more susceptible than malnutrition. Commercial beekeepers feed […]
Soy infant formula should only be used as a last resort, says the Israeli Health Ministry, French Food Agency, German Institute of Risk Assessment, British Dietetic Association and other government health organizations around the world. As far back as 1999, warnings about soy and infant formula have rocked our world. In this shocking letter, two FDA toxicology experts officially […]
What d’you s’pose gave those British girls their rosy cheeks and great bone structure back in the day? Could it ‘ave been the raw milk and cream, luv? Raw amino acids, critical to collagen and protein production, figured into the diet of every indigenous person, be it fish, dairy and fermented dairy, or meats (salami […]
As Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! Guide to Healthy Food Shopping points out, a shopper has to be savvy even when shopping a health food store. This article brings the point home: “My Adventures with Liquid Chicken.”
There is a newly identified form of malnutrition called IFS: Intentional Food Stupidity. It’s caused by a deficiency of survival instinct. Apparently, Stanford U has it bad. Pardon my snark, but it irks me that the “science” from Stanford reported in September 2012 wants to convince us that the only benefit of organic food is […]
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Salmon will become the first approved GMO animal produced for human consumption. Is it a safe food? Who knows. Certainly not the FDA. As Earth Open Source points out, based on the evidence presented in their report GMO Myths and Truths, there is no need to take risks with GM foods when effective, readily available, sustainable solutions already […]
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