Food for thought

A Bloomberg Businessweek article on powerful people changing their diets to save themselves and the planet. Steve Wynn, Russell Simmons, Bill Clinton and a comparable cast of heavies are now using tempeh to assert their superiority. A look at what gives. On quitting meat, dairy, and eggs: "It's pretty clear the benefits are undeniable and many." http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_46/b4203103862097.htm

From The New York Times, this is a very important article. It just may make you think twice about eating cheese. If you would stop eating cheese, it would do you, the earth, and cows and goats a world of good. While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

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How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change. This is quite an article from the New Yorker magazine. go to http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza This is a very long article, at 10 pages. It's very informative if you can make it through the whole thing. If you don't want to have to click each time you go to the next page, at the bottom of the first page click on "View As A Single Page", then just scroll away. The article does not paint President Obama in a positive light when it comes to climate change. He had his chance to follow through on a campaign promise to do something about climate change, but under pressure he dropped the ball- in this case the ball representing the Earth. To me it doesn't mean it's too late, but lawmakers have to pull their heads out of the sand and do something NOW, before it IS too late. In the meantime, we can each do something to help. How we each eat, and how ...

POSTED ON NOVEMBER 1, 2010 BY JOEL FUHRMAN, M.D. A study of 40,000 women in Norway aged 50-69, recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, investigated the effects of screening mammography on breast cancer mortality. Some counties in Norway conduct mammography screenings, while others do not. Four groups of women were studied: a screening counties group and a nonscreening counties group followed from 1996 to 2005; and also ‘historical’ screening and nonscreening groups, who had been followed from 1986 to 1995. The goal of the study was to find out how much of the reduction in breast cancer mortality that has been observed over time was due specifically to mammography screening. The reduction in breast cancer mortality over time was 10% greater in the screening groups than the nonscreening groups. [1] What are the risks and benefits of screening mammography? The Nordic Cochrane Centre, an independent research group that conducts extensive and thorough reviews of the medic...

Earthsave is a wonderful organization started by John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution, Diet for a New America, and Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples. His prayer and wish:" May all be fed, may all be healed, may all be loved." The mission of EarthSave is to help people make food choices that promote health, reduce health care costs, and provide greater health independence. Please go to http://www.earthsave.org/index.html to watch the VIDEO: EarthSave's Meals for Health Program. Dr. John McDougall is a part of this program/is in the video!