Originally posted at the Better D.C. School Food blog. Cheap carbohydrates are the favorite foods of school districts across the country. What’s wrong with carbs? Unlike protein and fat, carbohydrates turn into sugar (glucose) when you eat them, which signals the body to produce insulin. A powerful hormone, insulin is responsible for storing fat in [...]
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Finally, here is a medical researcher who warns that carbohydrates are behind the obesity epidemic. Worse than most carbs, Robert Lustig of the University of California at San Francisco says that fructose, because of the insulin response it generates, is the metabolic equivalent of poison. An obesity expert who has worked extensively with children, Lustic [...]
Robert Atkins was pilloried by the medical profession for having the nerve to question the prevailing dogma that fat is at the root of our dietary ills. Not fat, Atkins insisted, carbohydrates. Quit carbohydrates and the fat will melt off your body and restore your health. His words were like mana to millions of Americans suffering [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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