5 Sure Ways to Eat Healthier...Really In my last article, I shared five of my favorite foods that support a sound body, mind, and spirit. This week, I’d like to switch the focus from what I eat to how I eat. Most Americans do not know how to eat. Well, let me rephrase that. As I have come to understand my personal diet, I recognize the importance of its extension beyond specific foods and into the realm of practice. 1. Ah…the elusive pastime. Taboo’d as it may seem, cooking is pretty easy. So when approaching cooking, think of it as an achievable task. 2. This may sound counterintuitive, but when I was living abroad I saw the cultural advantages of shopping more often and buying less food per trip to the grocer. Now I know this is as nostalgic as it gets and that many of us can not and will never run to the grocery store twice a day, but what I learned from mi madre was that we can enjoy fresher foods, while avoiding wastefulness by making a couple trips to the store a week. 3. 4. Let’s take a step back. 5. Recent Trackbacks
Home - SAVE FOOD Bhutan Bets Organic Agriculture Is The Road To Happiness : The Salt hide captionA Bhutanese farmer puts her harvest of chilies on the roof of a shed to dry and protect it from wild boars, deer, and monkeys in 2006. James L. Stanfield/National Geographic/Getty Images A Bhutanese farmer puts her harvest of chilies on the roof of a shed to dry and protect it from wild boars, deer, and monkeys in 2006. The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan drew international attention a few years back for saying gross national happiness should trump gross domestic product when measuring a nation's progress. If you're going to prioritize happiness, the Bhutanese thinking goes, you'd better include the environment and spiritual and mental well-being in your calculations. But Bhutan, which has only 700,000 people — most of whom are farmers — has another shot at international fame if it can make good on a recent pledge to become the first country in the world to convert to a 100 percent organic agricultural system.
Et si notre mode de consommation était entièrement guidé par l'esthétisme ? Atlantico : Notre alimentation est-elle essentiellement régie par l'esthétisme? Jean-Pierre Corbeau : Je ne pense pas qu'aujourd'hui notre alimentation soit gérée essentiellement par l'esthétisme. A moins que l'on considère le packaging de produits transformés comme forme d'esthétisme et que l'on affirme qu'il est déterminant dans l'acte d'achat (ce qui ne se vérifie pas dans les enquêtes menées à ce sujet). Dans votre exemple vous faites référence à des produits basiques végétaux. On arrive alors à une sorte de paradoxe, les légumes ou les fruits les moins chers (ceux dont on a du mal à connaître l'histoire - provenance, type de production, type de conservation, etc.) qui ne possèdent pas de signe de qualité particulier sont ceux qui doivent- esthétiquement être irréprochables. Faut-il réhabituer les personnes à manger bon et non beau ? Je pense qu'il faut habituer les gens à manger bon et à être acteurs de cette alimentation en participant à la réalisation de celle-ci.
BoP Innovation Center | blogAccess to Food and Improved Nutrition at the Base of the Pyramid | Improving food and nutrition security through better availability, accessibility, and utilization of food and food products is another complex challenge. It involves a sector where key activities – such as the production, distribution and consumption of food and the identification of food markets – are largely in the hands of private enterprises. Interventions by the private sector in the food value chain can increase the income of the actors in the chain by involving the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) as consumer, producer or entrepreneur. In collaboration with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we have identified five different business interventions for BoP ventures in a new publication. Interventions focusing on smallholders to improve quality and volume of production. You can download the report here.
Opinion / Columns : Taking the poison out of our food I am not someone who usually goes shopping for vegetables or even other food stuff. My present professional requirements don’t allow me this luxury. But I remember when I was a child I would often accompany my mother or my aunt when they went shopping for vegetables, fruits and other food stuff. We can test the freshness of a fruit by holding it, smelling it, giving it a soft squeeze, checking for bumps and spots and bruises. Why do we eat food? Green Revolution In the 1960s, India experienced what was called the Green Revolution. Nature has its own way of keeping a balance and therefore, each one of these pests which destroys our crops, also has predators. Plight of the farmer If pesticides in our food affect us, how does it affect our farmers? The arguments for and against pesticides are many and have been dealt with in great detail on our show. (Aamir Khan is an actor. The Amir Khan ColumnJuly 23, 2012 No green signal yet for the Yuva Kisan March 17, 2012
Quand l'industrie de la viande dévore la planète Les projections démographiques moyennes de l’Organisation des Nations unies (ONU) montrent que la planète accueillera neuf milliards de personnes en 2050, date à laquelle la population mondiale commencera à se stabiliser. Un vent de panique souffle sur la planète, certains Etats agitant le spectre de la surpopulation… Y aura-t-il alors suffisamment de ressources et de nourriture pour tous alors que déjà, en 2011, plus d’un milliard de personnes ne mangent pas à leur faim ? Depuis quelques années, les pays qui craignent une pénurie se sont lancés dans une course effrénée pour acquérir de nouvelles terres arables que se disputent les industries de l’agroalimentaire et des agrocarburants. Et une violente controverse oppose ceux qui veulent utiliser les produits agricoles pour faire tourner les moteurs à ceux qui préféreraient qu’on nourrisse les êtres humains. Nous sommes deux milliards à trop manger Pâturages entre meurtres et déforestation Exploitation hors sol, pollutions et famines
Toxin from GM crops found in human blood: Study : North, News Dinesh C. Sharma New Delhi, May 11, 2011 | UPDATED 19:06 IST Fresh doubts have arisen about the safety of genetically modified crops, with a new study reporting presence of Bt toxin, used widely in GM crops, in human blood for the first time. Genetically modified crops include genes extracted from bacteria to make them resistant to pest attacks. These genes make crops toxic to pests but are claimed to pose no danger to the environment and human health. Till now, scientists and multinational corporations promoting GM crops have maintained that Bt toxin poses no danger to human health as the protein breaks down in the human gut. Scientists from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, have detected the insecticidal protein, Cry1Ab, circulating in the blood of pregnant as well as non-pregnant women. They have also detected the toxin in fetal blood, implying it could pass on to the next generation. None of them had worked or lived with a spouse working in contact with pesticides.