Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.
DON’T LOOK FOR THE MAGIC BULLET IN THE TRADITIONAL DIET.
A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic sal...
Wes Jackson calls our species homo the homogenizer.)
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car yo...
There are three things human beings are afraid of: death, other people, and their own minds.
Pensar no alimento como puro e simples combustível é interpretá-lo mal.
One of those rare books that demands you either defend the way you live or change it. Because
Its power to imbue everything in our field of experience with a heightened sense of purpose and consequence.
What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?
What should we have for dinner?
Traditional diets are more than the sum of their food parts.
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.
Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.
My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple thi...
Eventually the potato's undeniable advantages over grain would convert all of northern Europe, but outside of Ireland the process was never anything less than a struggle. ... Louis (XVI) hatched an in...
Easy. You want Americans to eat less? I have the diet for you. Cook it yourself. Eat anything you want—just as long as you’re willing to cook it yourself.
Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.