The Benefits Of Eating Farm To Table Food

foodNowadays, it’s becoming harder and harder eating healthier because food has become processed into what we now call ‘junk food,’ preserved with artificial sweeteners and chemicals, and delivered to you in a packaged box. We’re losing our raw connection with food day after day and we’re not entirely sure how the meals we are eating are made or where they came from. Enter the Farm-to-table food movement which attempts to rectify our eating habits and repair your relationship with food.

What is farm to table eating?

Farm to table is a term used to describe how food is locally produced and literally brought to your table. It’s brought to you by a local farm directly without involving a grocery store or a food distributor. Continue reading

Why Whole Foods Are More Than The Sum of Their Parts

foodMargie King – What makes an apple so good for us? Is it the vitamin C? Vitamin K or B6? Is it the soluble fiber or the insoluble fiber? Is it the potassium or the phytosterols?

Or is it the apple? What a concept.

Western science is obsessed with deconstructing food, researching and analyzing its component parts, isolating the “active ingredients,” repackaging them in pills or powders and prescribing them in daily doses. But according to Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D., author of Food and Healing, this chemistry-based theory of nutrition is completely upside down. Continue reading

Your Medicine is in Your Pantry

foodKarta Purkh Khalsa – Food has been the medicine of humanity since the dawn of time. Many herbs that we associate only with seasoning our food are, in fact, potent herbal medicines.

The distinction between herbal food and herbal medicine is actually quite subjective. There is a wide area of overlap with the two categories. If you think of all the plants we consume, for whatever purpose, as being on a spectrum, from food on one end, to medicine on the other, you will see what I mean. On the food end would be plants like potatoes and carrots- potentially medicinal, but mild and safe. The other end of the spectrum contains medicine plants like opium poppy and foxglove, the source of digitalis- definitely not food, but clearly serious medicine. Continue reading

Local, Small-Scale Organic Farming Poised to Save the World

foodCarolanne Wright – When a strongly worded report by the U.N. Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was published in 2013, about the need for an immediate shift in our agricultural practices to avoid serious consequences, it largely fell on deaf ears in the United States. Through the examination of agricultural practices worldwide, the U.N. discovered that unless we radically transform our current food system, food insecurity, drought and social unrest will become the norm rather than the exception. But the report didn’t just address the severe ramifications of using harmful methods of agriculture, it also provided concrete solutions.

Wake Up Before it is Too Late

“While Monsanto and others continue to use their multi-million dollar PR budgets to push the narrative that GMOs are needed to “feed the world,” an oft-overlooked report released in 2013 by the United Nations tells a completely different tale: that small scale organic farming is the key to feeding the world and improving food security for the needy after all.” ~Nick Meyer, Althealth Works

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Kansas City Will No Longer Pour Bleach on Food for the Homeless After Outcry

foodMeadow Clark – Kansas City, Missouri Health Department made a national splash when their staff literally poured bleach on food intended for homeless people earlier this month. A coalition of friends called Free Hot Soup (FHS) Kansas City had formed picnic-style food gatherings to provide hot meals for homeless people, and all went according to plan until officials trashed the food and doused it in bleach to render it inedible.

The Washington Post reported:

“It looked ugly Sunday,” the Star reported last week. “Home-cooked chili, stacks of foil-wrapped sandwiches, vats of soup and other food prepared by volunteers with Free Hot Soup Kansas City were dumped in bags and soaked in bleach to make sure no one went back to try to recover it.” Continue reading