Sustainable food. Yes, absolutely. Of course, we’re all for it.
But what exactly is it?
It’s a question that was debated at Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sustainable Food Institute on Thursday.
There were some agreed-upon yeses, according to The Daily Green.
Local is better
Why? it requires far less energy to get food from the farm to your plate than when […]
Archive for May, 2007
What is sustainable food?
Published May 25th, 2007 in body/mind, Body & Mind and human world. 11 Comments“I didn’t do it!” Tell it to an MRI.
Published May 24th, 2007 in body/mind, Body & Mind, human world and Science. 4 CommentsMagnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, is not a truth serum.
But researchers are saying it’s a top notch lie detector that far surpasses the polygraph in determining whether or not a person is lying.
The polygraph just measures physiological responses to stress - your pulse rate, sweating, irregular breathing - and has largely been discredited as […]
Want to eat? Then we need to heal the honeybees.
Published May 14th, 2007 in animals, human world and Science. 28 CommentsIn the past few months, U.S. beekeepers have lost a quarter of their honeybee colonies. If you’re thinking “Good, less bee stings on the playground,” you’re thinking way too small.
“About a third of the American diet can be traced back to bees,” said May Berenbaum, professor and head of the department of entomology at […]
Diet if you want. You can lose weight, sure. But unless you want to live like a starving person, it’ll come back.
You pretty much are who you are, weight-wise, according to Gina Kolata’s new book, Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss — and the Myths and Realities of Dieting.
In her New York […]