Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Add Flax to the Grocery List
More reasons to buy flax seeds (ground 'em up and sprinkle on salads) and flax seed oil. New research offers evidence that including flax in the diet may help prevent colorectal tumors or keep tumors from growing as quickly when they do form. The new South Dakota State University research results were published February in the peer-reviewed international journal Nutrition and Cancer.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
The Face on Your Plate
"Collective denial has been our modus operandi." Thoughtful WaPo book reviews on the prevailing "don't ask-don't tell" food culture sheds light on food that's bad for the eater as well as the eaten. Click here
Event Waste Rescue
Robin's April 5 Eco Simple column in the Examiner newspapers nationwide. The topic: Event Waste Rescue. Access the San Francisco edition by clicking the title above. SF edition: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=26&refresh=Zi5120yC1xN9&EID=9cd40f00-2f82-4181-a1be-e8d116e7a820&skip=
DC edition: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=42&refresh=7Ee1x0Z6Y31c&EID=9255354b-66ba-45f4-a509-5b3df379753c&skip=
Friday, April 3, 2009
Artful Spring Break in NYC
Click the title for Robin's April 3 article in Lenny Campello's Art News.
Image: Future New York, The City of Skyscrapers, 1910s. One of the postcards on view at the Met. Artist unknown. Photomechanical reproduction. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Evans Archive.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Soy when young helps cut disease risk
Asian-American women who ate higher amounts of soy during childhood had a 58% reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Check this site for tasty recipes and soy health facts http://www.soyfoods.org
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