It is ironic that today, the day that Massachusetts elected a Republican who vowed to stop health care reform in its tracks, we got a letter from our health insurance company saying that they are going to raise our premium by 70 percent.  SEVENTY percent.  Is that even legal??  Not that they ever paid a [...]

 
Alright, I just can’t resist responding to the hysteria that is going around regarding the swine flu.  This post doesn’t have much to do with being gluten-free or dairy-free but rather health and wellness in general, and peace of mind.  The media is acting like the world is about to end, and people are going along with [...]

Today in the Science Times there was a piece by John Tierney on Mayor Bloomberg’s initiative to cut the amount of salt in processed and restaurant foods in half in New York City (link to article here).  Mr. Tierney asserts that the initiative is unwillingly making all New Yorkers participate in a study to see [...]

Hi all, well the growing demand for good old-fashioned straight-from-the-cow raw milk has caught the attention of the mainstream media in a favorable review on msn.com (click here).  The article discusses the difficulty of obtaining raw milk, which is perfectly legal to buy and consume anywhere in the U.S. but is illegal to sell in [...]

Many of you know I am a huge fan of Michael Pollan, food writer and journalist for the New York Times Magazine.  If you haven’t read Omnivore’s Dilemma or In Defense Of Food, you need to.  Michael Pollan is one of our strongest advocates for healthy eating, leading a movement from an industrial, processed food [...]

How many of you saw the story yesterday in the New York Times about the decline of the Mediterranean diet?  (here’s the link)  It seems that their diet is not so Mediterranean anymore - it’s more like American now.   As countries like Greece and Spain have abandoned their traditional diet of olive oil, fish, unrefined grains and [...]