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Two major journalism prizes were recently announced and the winners say some interesting things about the state of the profession. The University of Oregon's Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism […]
Nanotechnology, when perfected, may lead to developments including robotic muscles, solar cells, or synthetic muscles for humans.
You know all that stuff you've been told for years not to eat–like animal fat, eggs and butter? Well, Nina Planck, the author of "Real Food: What to Eat and […]
It’s not something generally referenced in the discussion over China’s awesome growth, and it might only be marginally related. But the influx of Chinese students attending American universities hasn’t gone […]
Bestselling author Lionel Shriver isn't embarrassed to admit that her impulse to write stems from her feelings of social incompetence: "You know that feeling of having had an encounter with […]
I’ve been a New York Times junkie since I was thirteen years old. This in itself shouldn’t be a big deal, but if you grew up in a small Southern […]
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Raising the standards of your dairy consumption can be a "gateway" step toward a healthier, more natural diet.
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The author admits she bends her own rules to eat out sometimes, and hasn't eliminated white sugar from her household. But for the most part, the foods she craves most […]
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Substitute foods and engineered imitations are never as good as "real foods."
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An omnivore's diet is best for fertility, pregnancy, and nursing—and will help make sure your offspring are healthy.
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The farmers' market pioneer explains why she and her family drink unpasteurized, unhomogenized milk, and why the rewards outweigh the risks.
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While industrial meat production is environmentally destructive and socially unjust, raising animals for meat on in grass pastures actually enhances the environment.
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Even if they lacked the variety we enjoy in modern supermarkets, our forebears ate healthy food that was, by and large, whole and unadulterated.
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Our ancestors had a much lower incidence of diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Could it be because they ate traditional, "real" foods?
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The author describes how growing up on the farm taught her to love "real foods" and how much healthier she became when she stopped being a vegetarian.
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A conversation with the founder of London Farmers' Markets and author of "Real Food: What to Eat and Why."
A while back I linked to a couple of studies in which scary public-health messages had the opposite of their intended effect: These anti-drinking and anti-smoking ads made people want […]
Roland Martin makes the case that Confederate soldiers in the Civil War were domestic terrorists -- and shouldn't be honored any more than we honor Muslim extremists who try to kill Americans.
Many liberals want President Obama's coming Supreme Court nominee to be in the mold of Justice William J. Brennan Jr. But today's court may not be a place for a consensus builder.
New research shows that children who are spanked are more likely to become aggressive, building on a previous study showing that spanked children scored lower on cognitive tests.