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  • Meatless Monday vs. Meat Only On Monday

    Some Scientific Support for a sound idea Take data from 55,504 people’s diets — plus information from 38,000 farms in 119 countries — and what do you find? Peter Scarborough, professor of population health at Oxford, found something incredible. He looked at vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters, and meat-eaters and their food consumption, and how that eating…

  • Eating Local Equals Eating Healthful

    Windowsill, Patio, Backyard, Community, CSA, Farmer’s Market: All types of Gardening and local farming are great for your health! The previous post encouraged Meatless Mondays and highlighted the vegetable and fruit-focused EAT-Lancet eating pattern. But you will not benefit from this type of food consumption if the fruits and vegetables you eat lack nutritional value. Would…

  • It’s Not Your Fault

    All the Snacks and Plastics Coming At You Are Hard to Avoid In my previous two posts (How Sweet It Is – or Is It?) and (Sweet-Drink Free Sunday), I put a lot on YOU! Instead, I would like to help you find some of the Ease that I wrote about in my very first…

  • My Climate Story

    Why does the climate matter to me? Even though I was not able to have any children — so I will never have grandchildren, or great-grand children, or great-great grandchildren — I feel a huge sadness because of the burden we have left to our young people. Greed and ignorance have made a global mess…