Diets can make you overweight in the long term
Food As Medicine
This was the last column I wrote for the Fredericksburg, Virginia, Free Lance-Star: You won't find "Food-medicine" in the Pharmacy To celebrate March being National Nutrition Month, the Fredericksburg Food Coop and Mary Washington Healthcare sponsored a recent seminar on ‘Food As Medicine’ at Stafford Hospital. Six local dietitian/nutritionists described the importance and scope of…
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Beyond “You Are What You Eat.”
The idea that we are what we eat apparently was touted first by French lawyer and epicure Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in a meditation on the effect of gastronomie on gout in 1826. [caption id="attachment_2555" align="alignnone" width="836"] There's Many Ways Our Food Gets Contaminated[/caption] The exact term “you are what you eat” was first used in…
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How White Man’s Diet is Decimating Native Americans
I wrote this after the local library had an exhibition of native American culture - including a lot of information about diet and how change from “Pre-Captain Cook Diet” is causing an epidemic of diabetes. You may have wondered if you saw the Patawomeck village outside the downtown library last month. It was not the local…
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