We all know that vegetables are a very important staple for our daily diets and an ample source of healthy nutrition. But how about fermented vegetables? Not only are fermented foods a way to preserve your garden or farmers market bounty for longer, they are also rich in ...read more

A former executive of the Trader Joe's grocery store chain says he will open an experimental grocery store that repurposes expired products in an attempt to curb food waste and feed lower income communities. As Organic Authority reported last week, misleading food expiration ...read more

A new study by celebrity doctor Dean Ornish suggests that easy lifestyle changes can actually reverse the aging process. Ornish conducted the study with Elizabeth Blackburn, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009 for her work on telomeres,the parts of the chromosome that ...read more

Montana's “small herd exemption bill” could allow some farms to sell raw milk to consumers despite the controversy and legal issues that have made it essentially illegal elsewhere. The state Senate has made several significant changes to the bill (HB 574), which received ...read more

New research published in the journal Science and featured in last week'sNew York Times may shed some light on the reasons why you can't ever seem to find a tomato that tastes… like a tomato. According to the team of scientists (which included members of the USDA's Research ...read more

British scientists have created a type of broccoli that reportedly contains three times more glucoraphanin than regular broccoli—an active chemical compound that may help decrease the risk of developing chronic illnesses including heart disease and cancer. Called Beneforte, the ...read more

Reducing food waste is a critical responsibility not to be dismissed by any individual or industry, but concerns over ammonia-treated low-quality beef otherwise used as dog food and winding up in burger meat is sounding major alarms for food activists and concerned consumers. ...read more

The USDA has yet to find the source of contamination for beef that has sickened 16 people with a strain of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella. Last week, Hannaford grocery stores recalled ten types of possibly-contaminated beef products with sell-by dates of Dec. 17, 2011 or ...read more

New research on cooked food may have raw foodists second-guessing their diet choice. The study, conducted by Harvard researchers and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that cooked food provides more energy than raw. According to study ...read more

Daily intake of probiotic "friendly" bacteria showed the ability to effect a considerable increase in immune function, reports a recent study published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Conducted in partnership between the University of Southampton in England and the ...read more

As the biggest season for fresh fruits and vegetables rolls across the country, the Environmental Working Group has finally released The 2011 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which updates consumers on the total pesticide loads found in conventional produce on a list ...read more

The devastating plum pox virus has led scientists to create the genetically modified (GM) HoneySweet plum, making it one of only two USDA approved GM fruit trees. Plum pox (also referred to as Sharka disease) is an invasive species in the U.S. and considered the most damaging ...read more

In a covert 2010 investigation titled "Operation Safe Seafood", GotMercury.org, a non-profit advocacy group working to protect people and the environment from mercury, revealed startling levels of the toxin found in fish served in restaurants and grocery stores across ...read more

There are two sides to every story. I’d like to call your attention to a hot debate sparked by my blog post Corporate-Backed and Bogus: The Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement. If you haven't done so, read it now to check out the range of opinions and responses on this important ...read more

I don’t eat meat, but I eat fish. And I love sushi! All kinds, like salmon and mackerel, even weird stuff, like octopus and squid. It’s all good. Sushi is a very sheik thing to eat. Celebrities love it. Today, sushi is synonymous with New York City and Los Angeles. But now, ...read more

Here’s another innovative Christmas tree alternative. Yesterday we saw the space-saving, eco-conscious recycled cardboard tree. Sure, a great idea. But you can’t eat it! That’s why the brussel tree rocks. As in, rocking around the Christmas tree! And just think, after ...read more

February 25, 2008 Before we get to day 125, let me take a moment to comment on the recent footage of slaughterhouse mistreatment of downed cows and their continued presence in our beef supply. If you did not see it, words cannot suffice to describe how hard it is to watch. But ...read more

February, 12, 2008 A quick update before we get to day 96: I've been mostly raw now for over a year and a half--and I love it! I eat a mostly vegan diet, with no meat. Many of the physical problems I still struggled with on day 96 are completely gone now. I discovered Univera ...read more

Day 86 was written on: August 26, 2006 I haven’t written in a while for three reasons: 1. I have been really sick, 2. I have not felt good about writing the truth that I’d been not eating well and I didn’t want to lie about it, and 3. I had lost my passion. I am sure that the ...read more

January 3, 2008 Coming up is my entry chronicling the beginning of my third month of eating raw last year. I am now 16 months into this Raw Food Detox Journal, lifestyle. Quite honestly, I still have some days where I don’t eat as healthily as I’d like, but on the whole I remain ...read more

Nov. 30, 2007 Hello fellow organic, healthy wannabe people! (And I mean that in a good way…) On July 1st last year, I made a paradigm shifting, literal gut wrenching (I'm talking big, here) change. It included adopting an 80% raw food diet. I began a journal detailing the ...read more

On July 1st last year, I made a 180 in my life. After becoming more and more ill during the previous decade with various assaults to my body, I decided it was time to get serious about healing and take matters into my own hands. I knew the first thing that had to go was my diet. ...read more

On July 1st last year, I made a 180 in my life. After becoming progressively ill during the previous decade, I decided it was time to get serious about healing. I knew the first thing that had to go was my diet. So I took the plunge. I went raw. What follows is day 45 of this ...read more

Here's day 10, folks. July 10, 2006 Up 'til now I’ve been focusing this journal on eating more alive, organic food and my withdrawal from the ridiculously unhealthy and made-exclusively-for-profit foods that are manufactured by corporate pushers. That’s the way I think of those ...read more