Can Biodiversity and Agriculture Coexist? How Super Metrics Made Wildlife...
Think back to a time before agriculture existed. Hawks pounced on squirrels, coyotes chased field mice and bison roamed the Great Plains. Then came Homo sapien. As super hunters, we first decimated the...
View ArticleNutrition Wonderland Travels to the Intermountain West
Nutrition Wonderland marches eastward towards Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado after an incredibly interesting time in California learning about development + agriculture in Oxnard, food safety in...
View ArticleFood System 2.0: Can New Approaches Make Local Food Happen?
What is the price of food? $3.99 for a gallon of milk? $0.99 for an energy bar? Complex market and policy forces make those prices. Its a process that starts far from the point of sale. Centralizing...
View ArticleSeafood Watch Super Green List
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has released a new 'super green' list of the best seafood choices you can make as a consumer. We have the list annotated here for you.
View ArticleDeja Vu? FTC Sizes Up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity
The breath of the obesity epidemic being witnessed in the United States is troubling. Theories have been entertained to determine what is causing the obesity problem in children. Sedentary activities...
View ArticleGenetically Modified Foods – Jeffrey Smith
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View ArticleWho Owns Organic? Nutrition Wonderland’s List Updated for 2010
If you ever wondered about who owns your favorite organic brands, look no further. Our comprehensive list covers most of the brands you will find in the grocery store as you shop - and our list is up...
View ArticleNutrition Wonderland Launches Mobile Site for iPhone, Pre and Droid
Nutrition Wonderland fans - great news for those of you on the go and want to read our information. We have recently launched a completely new mobile site, optimized for touch-enabled devices like the...
View ArticleFructose in Disease – Great Video
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Book Review: The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson
Few public health issues in American history have riled people quite like fluoride. Its story is replete with famous figures in American history, dramatic tales from the Manhattan Project, corporate...
View ArticleNutrition Wonderland moving towards v2.0
Over the next couple months, I will be rolling out a new version of Nutrition Wonderland. This update is substantial and will significantly effect this site – for the better I hope. I have taken into...
View ArticleCorn Sugar: HFCS by a different name?
There was an article in the Cleveland daily today about The Corn Refiners Association, the lobbying arm of corn agribusiness, petitioning the FDA to rename high fructose corn syrup, 'Corn Sugar'.
View ArticleEntering the Genetic Age: Enviropig and GMO animals
The October 2010 edition of Popular Science landed in my mailbox today with a brief overview of the genetically modified Enviropig. I would give you a direct link but, for some reason, Popular Science...
View ArticleWinds of Change: Antibiotics in Livestock
The New York Times has a really good piece on the coming rules regarding the amount of antibiotics that can be given to confinement livestock. Now, after decades of debate, the Food and Drug...
View ArticleFood Safety Legislation S.510 Stalled by One Senator
Ezra Klein's excellent blog on the Washington Post website highlights a Politico story today about the status of the long awaited food safety legislation (s.510). It is currently being held up by one...
View ArticleNeurophotonics Coming to a Human Being Near You
Researchers at SMU are working with DARPA (the US hyper-advanced military research group that initially developed the internet) to create an artificial fiber optic signaling system that will directly...
View ArticleObesity Rates in America Continue to Rise, Adenovirus May Play Role
The latest examination of obesity rates by the CDC comes to some sobering conclusions about the state of public health in America. Their findings show a block of states, mostly concentrated in the...
View ArticleVitamin B3 Niacin (Niaspan) beats Zetia as Heart Medication
I know this information is already about a year out of date but I thought it might be worth republishing (as I just ran into this article and study this last weekend.) At the 2009 meeting of the...
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Why the SOLE Food Movement is Failing
A friend of mine sent me an article from a publication called Zocalo that reviews American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields by Rowan Jacobsen. I'm not going to review this...
View ArticleHave we figured out what is causing honeybee colony collapse disorder?
The New York Times recently reported on a new discovery in understanding the devastating phenomenon of bee colony collapse disorder (CCD). Apparently a cocktail of a rare fungus and a virus have been...
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