Eating Healthy

Why not start making small swap-outs? You don't have to go wild in the supermarket buying organic like it's going out of style, but perhaps try some produce, dairy, chicken. Taste the difference.

Our warped agricultural policies have created a two-tier food chain in which fresh produce has become a luxury for affluent consumers while low-income families fill their fridges with nutritionally bankrupt processed crap.

For the last 7 years I have consistently put on weight, a self-protective bubble, in order to be invisible. I thought this was the only way to keep anyone from stalking me and attacking me ever again.

Though the pilgrims had to pork up because their next big meal was Christmas, today's Americans will still be wolfing down another 5,000 calories of leftovers all weekend.

I had never realized before how much produce costs. Even after I had abandoned my ideals about the benefits of organic fruit and considered the alternatives, it still costs more than I had ever realized.

It's a fight that has the nation's largest chicken producers squabbling, Big Sugar and Big Corn skirmishing and Sara Lee mixing it up with Farmer John...