Food Is Your Best Medicine - by Henry G. Bieler MD

Originally published in 1965, Food Is Your Best Medicine by Henry G. Bieler, MD, is a classic must-read for anyone seriously concerned about nutrition and good health.

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One of Dr. Bieler's greatest contributions is Dr. Bieler's Health Broth, a healthful combination of cooked celery, zucchini, string beans and parsley that will sooth and massage your gastrointestinal tract from the inside. Here is the recipe, or you can find it online at the link below: Dr. Bieler's Health Broth

Adapted from Food Is Your Best Medicine Wonderful for a Fall or Winter Detox
3 stalks of celery
3 whole zucchini
2 cups of string beans
1 cup of parsley

Here is Dr. Bieler's Health Broth recipe for energy, weight loss, and cleansing:

Put 1 cup of water into a stock pot. Put the string beans in first and steam for about 5 minutes. Then put celery and zucchini into the pot and steam for another 5 - 7 minutes or until tender, but still crisp. Do not overcook. When done put the water that the vegetables have cooked in into the blender. Follow with the vegetables. Blend until liquefied. Add a teaspoon of raw unsalted butter and a large handful of parsley. Blend again until parsley is liquefied.

*Optional: Add 1 clove of garlic. Dr. Bieler's Health Broth

Eat Smart - Your Food Choices Affect the Climate

Eat Smart. Your Food Choices Affect the Climate Different foods have different impacts. Here's how the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) of twenty common foods compare.

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I think about nutrition this way... our bodies break down our food before it can be assimilated. The simpler the food, the easier it is for our bodies to break down and assimilate. Mammals (beef, pork, lamb, venison) are NOT simple foods.

Should Hot Dogs Have Health Warning Labels?

Put down the tongs and step away from the grill! Those hot dogs are a serious health risk. Yes, even during National Hot Dog Month, the summertime standbys are facing criticism. Hot dogs are just as bad as cigarettes — or so one group would have you think.

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My comment... As little as 3.5 oz/day of processed meats increases the risk of colon cancer by 36%. Processed meats includes all the toxic things they put on pizzas. Something to think about ;>)

The 30 Worst Foods in America

UPDATED FOR 2021

King Corn (2007) DVD

Picking up where Super Size Me left off, King Corn examines America's health woes through the multifaceted lens of one humble grain. Director Aaron Woolf and co-writers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis offer irrefutable proof that the US is virtually drowning in the stuff. Corn meal, corn starch, hydrologized corn protein, and high fructose corn syrup fuel a multitude of products, from soft drinks to hamburgers. The starchy vegetable grows with ease and government subsidies insure over-abundant production.

Woolf documents the 11-month effort of college friends Cheney and Ellis, who trace their ancestry to the same small Iowa town, to raise their own crop. After finding a farmer willing to lend them an acre, they meet with agronomists, historians, and other experts before plowing, seeding, and spraying. Prior to harvesting, the easygoing Yale grads travel to Colorado to compare the grass-fed cattle of yore with today's corn-fed counterparts; then to New York to explore the links between corn syrup, obesity, and diabetes.

With assistance from author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), a whimsical score, and stop-motion animation--farm toys and corn kernels--Woolf and associates bring biochemistry to vivid life. On a micro level, this genial eye-opener celebrates friends and farmers; on a macro level, King Corn bemoans the subsidies and genetic modifications that have turned a formerly protein-filled product into the fatty yellow dent no. 2.

Bonus features include a music video, photo gallery, and The Lost Basement Lectures, an amusingly fake instructional movie about the aims of agriculture. -- Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan

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Product Description: A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.