Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s official: America is suffering an obesity epidemic. Despite volumes of information available on healthy foods, diets and lifestyles, Americans continue to choose foods high in saturated fats, cholesterol and refined sugars. The Medical Research Council (UK) found that quantity of food may not be as much of a contributing factor to obesity as the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Genetically Modified (GM or GMO) food crops are no secret. Controversy over splicing animal genes into vegetable crops began in the 80’s prior to the commercialization of this technology in the early 90s, and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) 1992 decision that GM foods would not need to be labeled, and that mandatory pre-market […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s been eighteen years since John Robbins’ bestseller, Diet for a New America, was published with its trifold message that connected diet to personal health, the environment and the treatment of farmed animals. Public response to the book was overwhelming and generated a rapid grassroots movement. Forming the non-profit organization, EarthSave, was Robbins’ response to […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trans fatty acid consumption should be as low as possible. However, many doctors and healthcare experts contend that our trans-fat consumption ought to be zero.