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Nina Planck
Author, “Real Food”
Author and food activist Nina Planck was raised on a family farm in Virginia, where she learned to appreciate "real," traditional foods. She worked as a reporter for TIME Magazine and wrote speeches for the U.S. ambassador to London before opening the first farmers’ markets in London. Today her company, London Farmers’ Markets, runs fourteen markets. She is the author of two books: "Real Food: What to Eat and Why," and "Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods."
Planck is a Big Think Delphi Fellow.
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In the future, there will be more small slaughterhouses, more small creameries, and more regional food operations—and we’ll be healthier as a result.
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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.”