Heading to the Hamptons? If you’re looking to eat healthfully while lounging on the beach, be sure to stop by Juicy Naam for delicious, organic, smoothies and raw foods. If you want to take things up a notch, try the Juicy Naam Cleanse and transform your health. With locations in both East Hampton and Sag Harbor, you can enjoy a delicious, healthy juice and raw foods while soaking up your vitamin D!
Check them out at: www.thejuicynaam.us
Which fruits and vegetables are the most important to buy organic? Check out the 2010 Dirty Dozen, the Environmental Working Group’s list of the top 12 most contaminated varieties.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a vegan or a carnivore; concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) can affect you either way. Take a look at journalist David Kirby’s investigation into the poisoning of a North Carolina river and its residents – animals and humans alike.
Dr. Mercola recently reported in the atrocities inherent in factory farmed animals, giving us graphic details about why grass-fed, free-range meat may be a more humane, ethical diet choice. Learn more on Dr. Mercola’s website, and then use Clean Plates to find all the restaurants in Manhattan using humanely-raised, organic, hormone and antibiotic-free animal products! Warning: the video on this site may not be appropriate for all viewers.
New research from the University of Washington in Seattle has identified the pesticide atrazine as a potential cause of an increased rate of birth defects in the local area. An unusually high number of babies born with gastroschisis, a serious condition affecting the development of digestive organs, prompted researchers to investigate the chemical, which is used primarily as a pesticide on corn, sorghum, and sugarcane plants (although also as a lawn care product in other parts of the country). Learn more about atrazine (and the consequent benefits of an organic diet) at the Natural News website.
Clean Plates-approved restaurant Angelica Kitchen got the New York Times’ thumbs up for its delicious organic vegan brittle, which Florence Fabricant describes as “nothing short of addictive.” We’re thrilled to hear praise for organic’s taste as well as healthful qualities. Kudos to the folks at AK!
Read the review on the New York Times website.
Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter is setting a new precedent for world-class athletes: she adheres to a strict vegetarian diet, donates her competitive winnings to humanitarian organizations, and uses the proceeds from her maple syrup company to sponsor clean drinking water infrastructure in Kenya. Not your typical dumb jock! In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, she describes her lifestyle and her commitments, remarking on vegetarianism, “I feel stronger than I’ve ever been, mentally, physically, and emotionally. My plant-based diet has opened up more doors to being an athlete.”
Read more at the Huffington Post website.
Nutrition expert Marion Nestle contends that the modern grocery store is a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for your purchases with profits-not health or nutrition-in mind. Her acclaimed book, What to Eat, helps readers navigate the supermarket aisles and make sensible food choices, from produce to packaged foods. Is organic food better? Are carbohydrates bad? What are “functional foods?”
At this event, Nestle will address the science of nutrition, explaining how hard nutrition science is to do and to interpret, and yet how easy it is for food marketers to confuse the science to sell products. Nestle will discuss the hot topics of sponsored science, functional foods, health claims, and self-endorsements.
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003.
What to Eat: Diet, Nutrition, and Food Politics
An Evening with Marion Nestle
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
6:30 – 8:00 pm
The New York Academy of Sciences
7 World Trade Center (at Barclay St.)
250 Greenwich Street, 40th Floor
New York, NY 10007
TICKETS:
Non-members: $25
Students: $20
Members: $15
Learn more and purchase tickets at www.nyas.org/whattoeat.
An evening of excerpts from upcoming documentary films tackling food and agricultural issues will take place on December 15, 2009. A lively panel discussion and Q&A with the filmmakers, moderated by food activist and author Anna Lappé, will follow the screenings. Hungry Filmmakers is a not-for-profit event hosted by Anthology Film Archives and Jimmy’s No. 43 and curated by food writer Cathy Erway and filmmaker Shelley Rogers. Proceeds will benefit Just Food, a nonprofit working to promote access of fresh, seasonal, sustainably grown food for all New York City residents.
On view:
What’s “Organic” About Organic?”
by Shelley Rogers
Big River and Truck Farm
by Curt Ellis & Ian Cheney
The Greenhorns
by Severine von Tscarner Fleming
Grown in Detroit
by Manfred & Mascha Poppenk
Faces From the New Farm
by Liz Tylander, Kat Shiffler & Lara Sheets
Untitled Film by Sara Grady
Hungry Filmmakers
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Doors open at 7 pm, screenings begin at 7:30 pm,
after-party at 9 pm at Jimmy’s No. 43 (43 East 7th Street)
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue (at E. 2nd Street)
New York, NY 10003
Admission: $10
Tickets available at www.hungryfilmmakers.blogspot.com
Many companies, such as Safeway and IBM, are turning to nutrition programs for employees to improve health and thus cut health care costs. Learn more at http://tiny.cc/7Attw. If employing healthy people can save money for giant corporations, imagine the money we could each save by keeping ourselves healthy! The price of organic food pales in comparison to the cost of health care over many years…