November 2009
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September 2009
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The Ecological Disaster That is Dolphin Safe Tuna →
By trying to help dolphins, groups like Greenpeace caused one of the worst marine ecological disasters of all time. Few other fisheries are as bad for groups like sharks and sea turtles as the purse seine fishery, and none are as large in scale.
Hat tip to mr. Kottke.
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Food In Real Life →
Preaching truth to packaging. Pictures of packaged food, cooked to specifications, compared to the photo on the box.
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Acrylamide, sigh →
Acrylamide is the powerful carcinogen that gets formed when carbohydrates and proteins are cooked together at high temperature, as in dark toast, French fries, and potato chips.
August 2009
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American Heart Association Weighs in on Sugar... →
Americans eat way too much, it says, a whopping 22 teaspoons a day on average.
Whoah.
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We Can't Ask People Not To Own Cars →
Car ownership cannot be sacrificed in the fight against climate change, Tony Blair said today in Beijing, despite a projected tripling of traffic in China over the next decade.
Dumbass… (via @samastur)
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Is Your Independent Local Coffee Shop Really a... →
In one of the more brazen attempts by a corporation to disguise itself as a locally owned business, Starbucks is un-branding at least three of its Seattle outlets.
Truly, the lowest of the low. (via @bittman)
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If My Soy Beans Are Green, Why is My Soy Milk... →
There is some excellent info here, it is definitely worth a bookmark. And yes, it even touches on the “is soy good or bad for you” subject.
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Smart Choices Program Helps Shoppers Identify Food... →
This first-ever uniform front-of-pack nutrition labeling program, developed by a diverse coalition of scientists, nutritionists, consumer organizations and food industry leaders is designed to promote public health by helping shoppers make smarter food and beverage choices within product categories.
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Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin →
The basic problem is that while it’s true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can stimulate hunger. That causes us to eat more, which in turn can negate the weight-loss benefits we just accrued. Exercise, in other words, isn’t necessarily helping us lose weight. It may even be making it harder.
This is a...
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What to Eat and What to Avoid at Chain Restaurants →
Eat This, Not That! put 66 major chain restaurants under the nutritional microscope—so that you and your family can continue to eat out, but do so knowing the types of insider tips and savvy strategies that can help melt fat all year long.
Burger King puts ~160 calories of mayo on just about anything. Wow. (via.)
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How to Get Cancer: Move to the United States →
The risk of cancer for Hispanics living in Florida is 40 percent higher than for those who live in their native countries, a puzzling new study finds.
Hispanics taken only as an example of course, this apparently applies to any social group living in the US which can be compared to a social group outside the US.
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Just a small update regarding the Twitter account. I have removed (hopefully) all of the bots and spammers/marketers/etc. and now the feed seems readable enough with appropriate content. If I have unfollowed you and you think I’ve made a mistake, please email me and I will consider following you back. Also I have removed the auto–following thingie, it proved to be a huge mistake, since bots...
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Vegan Means I'm Trying to Suck Less! →
Hey, I’m vegan, I’m not a total condescending asshole, I’m just trying to do the fucking best I can
I love it (via.)
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The Steve Ward Diet →
You draw a line from the current weight/date to the desired weight/date. Every morning you weigh yourself and plot the result. If the point is below the line, you eat whatever you want all day. If the point is above the line, you eat nothing but broccoli or some other low-calorie food.
For some reason this is probably the only diet that makes sense to me. I’ve personally lost quite a...
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Men Better at Distance Vision Due to... →
Men are better at seeing things in the distance due to their hunter-gatherer past chasing animals, while women are better focusing on things at close range, a British study said.
(via)
July 2009
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How To Make Sun Dried Tomatoes →
In just a few hours, you can have bags to freeze or jars of homemade sun dried tomatoes covered in olive oil. Use in pastas, on top of pizzas, in sauces, etc.
Making sun–dried tomatoes in the oven = win. We’re definitely trying this.
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Last Year's Model →
It’s totally normal to lust after the hottest new geeky gadgets. It’s also cool to put some thought into what we buy, and what we throw away. So this is a place to show the world that a lot of us are choosing to use Last Year’s Model.
An awesome initiative for consuming less by sticking to things that work and you already own.
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Here's the Meat of the Problem →
It’s not simply that meat is a contributor to global warming; it’s that it is a huge contributor. Larger, by a significant margin, than the global transportation sector.
Ezra Klein, ch–ch–ch–check it out. I also love this — Switching to a vegan diet would have a bigger impact than trading in your gas guzzler for a Prius (link to a .pdf file.)
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Are We Really What We Eat, or How We Act? →
[…] many of us eat the way we do because we believe that it makes a difference in the greater world. We believe that if enough of us “vote with our fork,” we can change the very food system that feeds us.
I wholeheartedly believe in this, but remember to make your beliefs and choices wisely.
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“To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a...”
– Fuck Yeah Facts
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Use NEAT Activities to Burn More Calories →
Using what’s known as “non–exercise activities” (things such as moving around while waiting, tapping feet, making gestures while speaking, etc.) can burn up to 350 calories a day, so you might want to start picking up on some new habits if you’re aiming to lose some excess pounds easily.
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Benefits of Grass Fed Beef →
For the health of the animals, the environment and you (not to mention your taste buds) grass-fed beef is a good option for meat-eaters.
Good read, especially for meat–eaters who don’t know the difference, or don’t know actually how their beef is grown.
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Fancy Fast Food →
This is actually Domino’s pizza. The stuff’s still bad for you, it just looks good.
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Giant Garbage Patch Floating in Pacific →
An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. […] The trash stew is 80 percent plastic and weighs more than 3.5 million tons.
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Meat vs. Veggie: From Depression to Infertility,... →
I just can’t help but notice how much the illnesses caused by these two diets differ.
Meat eaters:
arthritis,
gallstones,
alzheimer’s,
osteoporosis,
food poisoning.
Vegetarians:
infertility,
dental erosion,
depression,
muscle atrophy.
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“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.”
– Leo Tolstoy
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8 Ways the Food Industry Tricks You to Overeat →
In the 21st century the food industry is creating and marketing unhealthy food in much the same way that tobacco companies manufactured and sold cigarettes in the 20th century.
Also I love the phrase “when in doubt, slap cheese and bacon on it.” And when I say “love”, I mean “fear.”
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“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are...”
– Mark Twain (via)
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Quality, Scale and the Regular Kind →
Seth Godin on eggs and quality. (via)
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“One single tablespoon of flax seeds contains 200% (=2281mg) of your daily...”
– Things the fish lobby doesn’t want you to know
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Salad ID Chart →
A cool chart to help you differentiate your greens.
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How To Eat Tofu Without Really Trying →
An oldie, but a good one.
I have quite a couple of vegetarian friends who simply refuse to eat tofu, or soy in general on account of taste.
The problem is, almost no one likes tofu initially. It’s an acquired taste, like caviar or asparagus, though for the opposite reason—it has barely any flavor, so you focus on the consistency. And most people don’t care for the consistency.
She then...
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June 2009
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How to Find Safe Natural Deodorants →
I would be really interested to see how well these work, as I’ve only used regular deodorants. I think I’d have a tough time using one since I always go for the strong ones (usually in a black or a navy blue container.)
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Pine Nuts May Temporary Destroy Your Sense Of... →
Britain’s Daily Mail warns that consumers of chinese pine nuts may experience a “foul, metallic taste” for up to two weeks “making practically all food and drink unpalatable.”
Beware of pine nuts I guess. :)
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An Experiment in Brooklyn-Style Subsistence... →
The “locavore” movement says we should only eat what is grown within a few miles of where we live. How about a few feet?
Guy builds a farm in his 800 square feet backyard in Brooklyn and plans to feed his family off of it for a month. Awesome story.
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Eating Meat Is Not Natural →
The point is this: Thousands of years ago when we were hunter-gatherers, we may have needed a bit of meat in our diets in times of scarcity, but we don’t need it now.
I’m hoping not to start another flame war on this age–old debate, but I really agree with the thought that we learned to eat meat, and that we essentially don’t need it. People usually like meat because of the way...
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Best and Worst Fast Food: McDonald's Edition →
To put this post together, we pored over the nutritional fact sheets for all the items at McDonald’s. The following list of healthiest and unhealthiest foods was compiled based on several factors, including total calories, fat, and sodium content.
“Healthy fast food” is an oxymoron. It’s processed deep-fried crap in a bagel full of sugar.
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Will We Still Eat Meat, Drink Milk, and Fry Eggs... →
Teacher: Good morning class. Today we are remembering what life was like in the days of Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American president of the United States.
A very interesting story about a history class in 2109 about today. It sent chills up my spine.