Science writer Gary Taubes We may look back on this week as the moment when public opinion finally turned against the idea that fat is what makes us ill and embraced the emerging science implicating sugar as the nation’s number one threat to good health. In Sunday’s New York Time’s Magazine, science writer Gary Taubes […]
Tags:diabetes·falvored milk·heart disease·obesity·school food·sugar
The D.C. Environmental Film Festival always presents a mind-boggling area of great documentaries. Here’s a schedule of up-coming screenings directly related to food and agriculture. March 17 7:00 p.m. Maret School Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Wine Welcome by Kathy Sweeney-Hammond, Academic Affairs Director, Maret School. Introduced by Andrea Meditch, Chair of Development Committee, Maret School. Portrait […]
Tags:food films
To celebrate the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans [PDF] issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday, we cooked the fattiest pork chops we could find. Actually, they were just barely streaked with meat. I found them at the Dupont Circle farmers market on Sunday at the Ecofriendly tent. That’s the Virginia outfit run by […]
Tags:dietary guidelines·pork·USDA
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