Category Archives: preventive health

The Power of A Local Food Group and Community Supported Agriculture!

Although the idea of local food and community supported agriculture is not a new one, growing consciousness about how wrong things are in the mass-production food industry and recent films like Food Inc. and King Corn have created a surge of interest in urban gardening and farm-to-table food. The benefits of getting most of your [...]
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Why Dean Ornish is Wrong

Hot Air in the Huffington Post In a much-publicized brouhaha this week, Dr. Dean Ornish wrote an article in the Huffington Post summing up his take on a recent observational study comparing animal and plant-based diets.  The cohort study, which was published last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, studied long-term mortality rates among [...]
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