2010 Resolution: Slow Down For Success
I've never been big on New Year's resolutions. But instead of resolving to do more this year, I'm aiming to do less. To slow down.
I've never been big on New Year's resolutions. But instead of resolving to do more this year, I'm aiming to do less. To slow down.
You don't need to pay people to tell you what to do (except for us, of course). Living a good life is all about finding balance in what you eat and how you behave. Put your energy in a better place.
Some people want to be told what to eat. Ever get asked about "the Slow Food diet?" I do. Countless times I've explained that there is no slow food diet, that it's not meant to be a dogmatic philosophy.
Farming is hard work, yet the farmers I meet are some of the most satisfied people I know. Odd, because in my experience, running a small business can be stressful and not a whole lot of fun.
So far, only thousands of people have died from swine flu. Unless we radically change the way chickens and pigs are raised for food, though, it may only be a matter of time before a catastrophic pandemic arises.
Many Americans are far too liberal with their servings of meat, dairy products, eggs, and other less-than-healthy foods. And they are getting more so with each passing year.
You decided a long time ago to go with artificial sweeteners. After a while, you didn't even notice the slightly different taste compared to sugar-sweetened beverages.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is clearly an odd man out in the Club of CEOs.
The first thing I do everywhere January 1 is review the INs and OUTs for the new year. Someday my insights will be really valuable, but for now I offer them to you for free.
Your new year's resolutions may include losing weight. But even if they do not, everyone's list this year should include the resolution to look at nutritional information on menus.
They. Don't. Have. Lattes. Had I landed on another planet? Had I crossed too many time zones and landed in the 1970s?
If we pay a little more respect to food, we can reclaim the pleasures of dining, of family-time, and even cooking.
Through a series of public policies and private sector decisions, millions of low-income families in America have been condemned to subsist in vast urban "food deserts" that pose serious health threats.
In the beginning, the Bible says, God created the heaven and the earth. And it was good. Really good. Earth's natural bounty blew us away -- lavish...
A friend of mine (who shall go unnamed) recently harvested about a half a pound of quality marijuana from his backyard. He grew it from some seeds he ...
As food aid stamped with the World Food Programme's logo is shipped to Sudan, thousands of tons of wheat and rice are shipped out -- to Riyadh, Beijing and Seoul.
We need to go in to our resolution knowing that we are likely going to mess up in a few weeks, and that's okay, because for every two steps backwards we make another half-step forward.
Traditions can adapt and evolve with time, a good thing to remember as we head into a new year. Even the most ordinary of things can surprise us, delight us, and put us on a new path of discovery.
Knowing that this is the time of year when everyone makes a resolution to eat better, and 90% of resolutions fall away after the first week, why not make it easy on yourself?
What if I told you it ain't that hard to make over your entire diet? And in a month, you'll be lighter, more rested, less stressed and have more vitality and energy?
Humanity will return to organic agriculture because it is the only farming system that can supply the world with sufficient quantities of healthy food in the emerging era of global warming, erratic weather, declining fossil fuels, and water scarcity.