Archive for month: April, 2009

corporate food: the dangers of GM

As I learn more and more about the food system in the United States, the more I become afraid of it.  Doing research for a paper recently, I found out that about 70% of all packaged foods sold in America have at least some genetically engineered components.  For those of you unfamiliar with GM (genetically [...]

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Mahatma Gandhi on Diet and Health

Categories:health, india

Most people know Gandhi as the leading Indian freedom fighter and the man responsible for securing Indian independence. However, Gandhi was also a prolific writer and thinker. He expressed his views in many fields. One of Gandhi’s favorite subjects was diet and nutrition. Throughout his lifetime he experimented with a variety of diets. He tried [...]

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