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health
Supermarkets say: Please don’t buy the dreck we sell
Marty Kaplan
March 4, 2013
I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was in a Minneapolis branch of Byerly’s, an upscale grocery chain in Minnesota. Scanning the aisles for a small extravagance for my dinner hosts, I noticed that the shelf labels included not just the price-per-unit, which I’m used to, but little blue and white linked hexagons marked on a scale of 1 to 100 – a “NuVal” score.
Being American is bad for your health
Marty Kaplan
February 4, 2013
“Americans are sicker and die younger than people in other wealthy nations.”
CON PROP 37: Should genetically engineered foods be labeled?
Norman Lavin, M.D, PhD., UCLA Medical School
October 3, 2012
Integrating foreign DNA (gene splicing or recombinant DNA) to make a new product is overwhelmingly common throughout the world.
PRO PROP 37: Should genetically engineered foods be labeled?
Jewish Journal
October 3, 2012
Did you know that you have been enrolled in the largest research study ever conducted in the United States, but you never signed a consent form or agreed to participate? That’s because since 1996, you — and basically everyone you know — have been eating genetically engineered foods.
Feeding the hungry, keeping It ‘light’
Jonah Lowenfeld
January 6, 2012
On a recent Friday morning, about an hour and a half into his regular weekly shift as the Friday manager of the North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry (NHIFP), Jerry Rabinowitz, 86, broke into a smile.
Kosher coaching fuses spirituality, nutrition
Judy Gruen
January 4, 2012
Do women and food always have to be locked in a complicated, co-dependent relationship? Not if Shimona Tzukernik and Miriam Wiener have anything to say about it.
My anorexia: How I became a survivor
Jewish Journal
June 15, 2011
About seven of us have gathered for group therapy in a large room scattered with chairs. A woman with frizzy red hair and a head that looks several sizes too big for her emaciated body sits across from me. Next to her, a statuesque blonde has a polished demeanor that belies the fact that, after lunch, staff members will try to keep her from going to the bathroom to vomit.
What to look for, where to find help
Jewish Journal
June 15, 2011
As a loving and concerned parent, you may notice that when your daughter enters puberty she will gain weight. Most of this gain is due to her body developing and preparing her to grow taller; the weight usually precedes the growth spurt. A healthy adolescent may gain anywhere from 20 to 50 pounds. Because there is so much focus on weight and body size in our culture, however, adolescents are not given the opportunity to go through these changes with the weight fluctuations that are necessary for normal development. This is the time that most eating disorders start. Over the years, I have heard my clients say that they started their eating disorder between the ages of 11 and 15 years old. Most started with a diet or over-exercising.
When challah becomes the bread of affliction
Adam Wills
May 2, 2008
Rabbi Marvin Hier fondly recalls bakery-fresh buns and muffins in his lunch when he attended yeshiva. He also admits to a penchant for challah.
Hier hasn\’t eaten challah, let alone matzah, in several years. But this bread-free existence isn\’t part of some Passover-inspired, Atkins-style diet. The founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center was diagnosed with celiac disease (CD) more than four years ago.
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