Learning To Cook, In Unusual Environs

I heard a really interesting piece today on NPR about a restaurant in Massachusetts, located inside a minimum security prison!    Inmates learn how to cook and wait tables; skills that serve them well once they’ve served their time and are then able to find work, which in turn, lowers the risk of re-offending. The […]

Read More

Progress on School Lunches?

Let me start by saying that apparently, pizza still counts as a vegetable.  Not kidding. “Millions of schoolchildren in the United States will see more fruit and vegetables and less fat on their lunch plates under new U.S. Department of Agriculture standards unveiled Wednesday aimed at improving child nutrition and reducing childhood obesity”, begins a […]

Read More

Big Food’s Insane Weight Loss Program

A post today on Bruce Bradley’s blog entitled ‘Big Food’s Insane Weight Loss Program’ does a great job of outlining just how far off base the billion dollar diet industry really is. Even more unfortunate is that we, as a society, are buying it. He reviews three weight loss brands which have, sadly, become one […]

Read More