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Award winning food author, activist Michael Pollan lectured before an overflow crowd of CDC scientists last week about the way Americans obsess over what we eat, and the how the healthy eating benefits are overshadowed by confusion. We worry so much about dietary health, yet we have the worst diets in the world. The CDC [...]

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You, sir or madame, are nothing more than a walking corn chip! I am too, of course. Each of us is personally responsible for consuming a ton of corn and corn by-products every year. How did we get to this ridiculous nutrition situation? The answer is nicely (and very troublingly) explained in Michael Pollan’s new [...]

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Did you know that your diet may be contributing to greenhouse gas emissions? Raising cows, be it for beef or dairy production generates 18% more greenhouse gas emissions than vehicles do worldwide, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). A 2006 study from the University of Chicago found that greenhouse gas emissions [...]

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This book’s an eye-opener and a guilt-inducer and will ultimately, I think, be a pocketbook-hurter. Pollan heads up and down the food chain in search of the origins of four meals. The fast food meal has Pollan talking about corn products, farm subsidies, industrialized monoculture and factory farms or CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations). The [...]

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