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The Calories that Really Count

May 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · food news, politics

Guest Post By Dr. Susan Rubin Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. When it comes to food, we’ve been counting calories for years expecting a weight loss result that hasn’t materialized. While the food industry would like us to believe that […]

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The Radicalized Gardener

December 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments · garden, politics

I suppose this would be the place where I count up all the noteworthy events that occurred during the past year and list my resolutions for the new decade. But last night I watched a documentary about Howard Zinn, the radical historian, and it reminded me that what growing my own food here in the […]

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What Killed The Anacostia Farmers Market?

December 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments · politics, Wellness

Has there ever been a time when more attention was paid to what poor people eat? Cheap food–and I would argue cheap, refined carbohydrates above all–are blamed for a national epidemic of obesity and diabetes and nowhere has the scourge of modern diseases hit harder than among the poor. It stands to reason, then, that […]

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