Over the past 2 nights I watched the 4 part series from HBO, “The Weight of the Nation”. For the most part, I thought this was a pretty good look at the obesity epidemic and recommend people watch it. That said, there were definitely a number of things that I …
NOTE: Its 2 am, my 2 kids are both having sleepovers at our house and watching non-stop movies, and to top it off my 2 dogs are being sick out of both ends. What a night! May as well write a blog post. I can’t vouch for the coherence of …
As so often these serendipitous things happen, last week I watched the 1973 film “Soylent Green” and this week finished the 2012 book by Josh Schonwald, “The Taste of Tomorrow“, both views of our impending food future. That they were produced almost forty years apart is amazing. Mainly, in my …
Ever since I started on this journey almost a year and a half ago, I have been voraciously reading books and blogs, listening to podcasts, watching videos and generally inundating my brain with as much information as possible about diet, overall health and disease, obesity, permaculture and farming…the list seems …
I just saw the documentary “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead” (thank you Netflix) and was blown away by this inspirational story. The Aussie filmmaker, Joe Cross, spends 60 days traveling around the US while doing a juice & vegetable fast and talking to Americans about their diet. So why is …