Blogs That Make Me Think

Strollerderby

Haiti - Jailed Americans Slip NBC Reporter a Note - The situation regarding the Americans in Haiti jailed for trying to take 33 Haitian children across the border without documentation has taken a bizarre tu...
25 minutes ago
Richmond Food Collective

Winter Food Co-op at Goochland Farmer's Market - I am about a week behind on passing along this information, but the Goochland Farmer's Market Winter Food Co-op that runs through April 30 has cut it's reg...
47 minutes ago
64 Weeks, 64 Food Rules

Week 5: Avoid Products That Have Some Form of Sugar in Top Three Ingredients - Pollan says that what complicates this are the many guises sugar hides behind in ingredient labels. Be on the look out for barley malt, beet sugar, brown r...
1 hour ago
Gumbo

Discover this word - heuristic / hyur-is-tik / noun, adjective 1. Practical, hypothetical, based on an educated guess that serves as a practical guide in the investigatio...
1 hour ago
FitSugar

Hankering For Chocolate? - This time of year, with Valentine's Day fast approaching, chocolate is everywhere. They say you are what you wear eat, so I must be bittersweet. While I...
1 hour ago
Go Green Toolshed

Is Green Tea Good For Losing Weight? - You may see a green tea metabolism booster in any drugstore or Wal-mart. Multiple studies have been conducted concerning green tea and weight loss. It is t...
2 hours ago
No Impact Man

The world's easiest first step into growing your own local food - Sprouting. It's cheap, easy, nutritional and you can do it even if you have no access to other forms of local food. Isabella, my little girl, loves sprouti...
7 hours ago
Vegan.com Blog

Blood Orange - Very cool looking when cut open like this. Yet another reminder that many fruits are pretty damned trippy. Uploaded by: sassyradish
8 hours ago
The Stream

Clearing Space with Rule # 5 - This spring cleaning for the body is clearing space for a new burst of energy! After awakening at 2:13 a.m. this morning, my brain was zooming and I could...
10 hours ago
Simple, Good and Tasty

Cooking Up a Special Valentine's Day: What to Skip, Do Instead, and "While You're There" - “Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” - Harriet Van Horne I’ve always said that Valentine’s Day isn’t for the f...
11 hours ago
happy. healthy. balance

Tracy Anderson Fitness Tips - I haven't been able to watch this video in it's entirety due to a very slow internet connection at the moment, but I am sure it's good so check it out. C...
13 hours ago
too good to be true

Book Review-Food Rules - I am reading a wonderful book by Michael Pollan called Food Rules; An Eater's Manual. It is not a cookbook or a diet book or really like any book on food I'v...
13 hours ago
The Body Firm's personal fitness blog

How to Make 2010 Your Best Year Ever! - We definitely had a great time at How to Make 2010 Your Best Year Ever! In case you missed it I’m going to post some video. And I know you can’t see the sl...
14 hours ago
The Green Apple Core

No One Cares What I Had for Lunch - But you should. There's a book on blogging, you see, called No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason. But she doesn'...
15 hours ago
Healthy Eating

Gotta love that Michael Pollan - Cindy Brinn MPH, RD, CDE St. Joseph Hospital Nutrition & Diabetes Clinic If you haven’t heard of Michael Pollan . . . you should che...
16 hours ago
Fingertips

My First Days - I was more excited than nervous to start my first day of clinic. My clinical instructor has 35 years of experience as a PT and is laid back. He is more inter...
16 hours ago
Four Packs For Oggies

“Ideal Diet”: Parasitic Worms Are Latest Diet Fad For Those Who Just Can’t Say No - DISCIPLINE WILL ALWAYS BE THE LAST RESORT IT SEEMS… Some people in Hong Kong are going to such extremes that they’re risking their lives by swallowing para...
17 hours ago
Good Food

Bill Binder of Philippe’s Restaurant Fame Passes Away - I would like to send my heartfelt condolences to the family of William “Bill” Binder who for many years ran Philippe’s Restaurant in downtown Los Angeles a...
19 hours ago
Blog

How (and Why) Baby Carrots Are Made - Several times in recent weeks the question has come up in conversation: How are "baby carrots" produced? Turns out, there are two types of baby carro...
19 hours ago
Words of the Wise Acres

A remote Icelandic homestead... - I wonder if they ever had sheep? You can see the bigger picture here. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, a...
20 hours ago
Cook Local

Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes - Right about the time that Mr. Cook Local and I started dating, he received some surprising news. He was diabetic. Life changed. He’s lucky. His diabetes ...
20 hours ago
Lea Urban Farming

Food - As a cook, both home and semi-professional, food is huge to me. I have been having a huge dilemma for several years about where the food I eat, cook and se...
21 hours ago
Wisdom Tidbits

The Manual of Food Rules - A new book is out, entitled “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,” by Michael Pollan. Unless you are well aware of the consequences of eating processed foods, and...
21 hours ago
Made is a blog

Downhill for a day, Food Rule #16 - First of all, I went off the beaten path last week after I found out my father-in-law had to have open heart surgery (triple bypass, valve replacement). I...
21 hours ago
i'm (not) superhuman

Support System: Where Men and Women Differ - photo by dmitry_morozov Let’s discuss support. No, I’m not talking about the kind that comes from a sports bra; that’s an important yet completely irreleva...
1 day ago
The Beagle's Lament

In Which I Bitch about Facebook and Praise NPR - Yesterday I heard a great piece about digital breakups on NPR. (“I blocked her sister, I blocked everyone that knew her…and she is still friends with my fr...
1 day ago
Eco To The People

My Oh Meyer’s, What a Wonderful Soap - I am currently living in New York playing nurse for the next several months. It’s not the fun would-you-like-a-sponge-bath-you-big-stud sort of nurse-play;...
1 day ago
Foodie in a Warzone

Winter salad - radishes with ginger, nuts and blue cheese - On the topic of my Radish obsession, here is radish salad rendition II. I know, I know – *what?* Trust me, it’s divine. *Radish, ginger, nuts with blue ch...
1 day ago
The Goods Are Odd

Pollan on a Roll - I have really been appreciating Michael Pollan’s recent tour circuit for his latest book Food Rules. With both The Daily Show and Oprah he has been hitting...
1 day ago
The Scrumptious Pantry

Food Person of the Decade? - I have been thinking about this for a while now. You remember, like six weeks ago? New decade, big thing, Person’s of the year and the decade all around. I...
1 day ago
Eat for Change

Book Review - In Defense of Food and Food Rules - Before I get to my review of Michael Pollan's books, you probably want to know how we're doing with our experiment. I think we are making excellent progres...
1 day ago
Veggie Queen Adventures

Michael Pollan and The Veggie Queen Agree on Vegtables and Cooking - The other day I went to see my former schoolmate, Michael Pollan, speak about his new book *Food Rules*. I find this ironic because in junior high and high...
1 day ago
A Good Eater

OUT THE WINDOW - Every since I started this blog, in August 2009, I have been extolling the virtues of cooking from scratch. Homemade food tastes better, is more economic...
1 day ago
Keeping It Real: Real Life, Real Food

How Far Should You Go To Avoid Processed Foods? - A few years ago, everyone was carb-phobic. Before that Americans went to great lengths to avoid fat. Could processed goods be the next "fear food?" I found...
1 day ago
JenNourish

Food Rules - There is a new book out by Michael Pollan called Food Rules. The book contains 64 guidelines about eating and how you should approach food. I think many of...
1 day ago
David Olive's Everybody's Business

Enjoy your day. - [image: Enjoy your day - polar bears]
1 day ago
Chewing the Fat

Tangents on target - (More here later) http://www.asiaing.com/food-rules-an-eaters-manual-by-michael-pollan.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/health/nutrition/08junk.html?...
1 day ago
Minda Homemaker

Book Review: Food Rules - I downloaded Michael Pollan’s Food Rules for my Kindle at a price of $5. For the same amount of money, I could have a) Bought two packages of organic vegetab...
1 day ago
KitchRN's Blog

Zevia Soda: Is it worth the carbs? - Some shocking news from Jorge Cruise about Zevia soda: You must now count it as 1 carb serving on “The Belly Fat Cure” diet plan! Yikes! If you’ve been ...
1 day ago
welcome to wolfie's wide world of wellness

WHO NEEDS THE MASSAGE OF A LIFETIME...? - I guarantee you - this massage will be one of the most meaningful sessions you've ever received! Join me & more than 200 massage therapists this Friday as...
1 day ago
Tim Waygood- Articles and Rambling

From Democracy Now - [image: hit counter script]Michael Pollan on “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual” Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, d...
1 day ago
Weighting for What?

Monday, Monday - The problem with going slow is that it's hard to keep up the momentum. I could say I got tackled by the Super Bowl party I went to, but honestly this was ...
1 day ago
What I learned today...

For Jill... - I told you a couple weeks ago that I was going to get Michael Pollan's new book Food Rules. I picked it up that day, and read it all that day twice. It doe...
1 day ago
Michael-Eddie

Two pleasures, one simple, one small - *Sunday, February 7, 2010* Kay and I celebrated Valentine’s Day early this year. (We’ll be traveling next Sunday). We went to the top of Lake Point Towers...
2 days ago
Natural Weight Loss Blog: The Token Fat Girl

No S - Hi! If you're living in the northeast right now I'll imagine that you're either crazily digging yourself out for work or still in your pj's when you read t...
2 days ago
Weight Maven

Metabolic syndrome and the liver - I can’t recall where I first read the suggestion that metabolic syndrome is essentially a liver problem, but I find the idea curiously compelling. Over at ...
2 days ago
mcgillville - where it's all about the mcgill

Personal Health - Food Rules From Michael Pollan Worth Following - In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligen...
4 days ago
In her own Write

Food Rules: “Eat real food. Not too much. Mostly vegetables.” - Michael Pollan says that and Petaluma’s Mayor Pam got the point as usual and repeated his mantra in her comments introducing Pollan at his appearance held ...
4 days ago
Welcome to the Ranch!

Food Inc. - At Cross Creek Cattle Company, we do not just raise grass fed beef. We garden organically. We pick wild grapes and berries. We tend our fruit trees. We...
6 days ago
Food Politics

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Blogs That Make Me Think

Blogs That Make Me Think

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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