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Michael Pollan

Calorie Count Disclosure And The Health Care Bill: Will This Lead To A Food Revolution?

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Food, Michael Pollan, Nutrition-Information, Health Care, Food Inc., Nutritional Labeling, Calorie Counts, Food Politics, Green News

One aspect of the health care bill that is taking effect immediately is that chain restaurants will be required to prominently display nutrition infor...

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Michael Pollan: The Food Movement, Rising (New York Review)

The New York Review of Books | Michael Pollan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Fast Food Nation, Fast Food, Michael Pollan, Food Movement, Food Politics, Books, New York Review of Books, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Cheap food has become an indispensable pillar of the modern economy. But it is no longer an invisible or uncontested one. One of the most interesting ...

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While HCR Vote Is Underway, Connecting Health and Care to the Stove

Kim O'Donnel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Health Care Reform, #Hcr, Michael Pollan, Health, Cooking, Home News
Kim O'Donnel

As the country waits in nail-biting anticipation of the House vote on health care reform, there is something we can actually do: Cook. Remember that ...

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Stress Less, Restore More

Erica Heinz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Eating, Stress, Yoga, Michael Pollan, Relaxation, Sleep, Healthy Living News
Erica Heinz

We all know that stress is killing us. Or at the very least, aging and annoying us. By cultivating beneficial stress and eliminating unbeneficial stress, you'll be more productive while doing less.

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General Mills Declares War On Our Kids' Health

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Strong-Bones, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Pollan, Lucky Charms Cereal, Calcium, General Mills, Cheerios Heart Disease, Childhood Obesity, ADD/ADHD, Health, Healthy Living News
Christina Pirello

The ad on television for General Mills' cereals was seemingly benign. Just more marketing of sugary cereals to kids under the guise they are healthy and have whole grains in them.

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Public Space = Public Health

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: El Paso, Mexico City, Chicago, Public Health, Soda Tax, Obesity, California Center for Public Health Advocacy, Guadalajara, Pepsi, Los Angeles, Metro, New York, Bike Culture, Santiago, Infrastructure, In-N-Out Burger, Bogota, Diabetes, Lax, Sacramento, San Francisco, Miami, GOOD Magazine, Amazon, Ciclavia, Portland, Michael Pollan, Nokia Theatre, Mass Transit, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

In a city with many neighborhoods starved for public space, CicLAvia promotes a creative way to make over LA for a few hours a week by converting city streets to pedestrian thoroughfares.

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The Food Bail-Out

Marcie Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Slow Food, Michael Pollan, Childhood Obesity, Green News
Marcie Ferris

It's time to demand real food for our children -- what food activist Michael Pollan defines as "food our great-grandmothers would recognize." And if it's not real, government should step in.

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20 New Anticancer Rules

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Tumeric, Instinct to Heal, Organic Food, Fda, Michael Pollan, Health, Health Tips, Cancer, Wellness, Food Rules, Cancer Rules, Healthy Living News
David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D.

Michael Pollan's recent little gem of a book Food Rules inspired me to compile my own "rules" about what I'd like every person to know about how they can help avoid cancer.

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Michelle Obama Steps Up As Health Champion

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fast Food, Food Pyramid, Michelle Obama, Mehmet Oz, Weight Gain, Healthy Diet, School Food, First Lady, Fast Food Industry, Obesity, Diet, Mark Hyman, Deepak Chopra, Childhood Obesity, Food Rules, Michael Pollan, Health, Nutrition, Exercise, Dean Ornish, Food, Weight Loss, Andrew Weil, Healthy Living News
Alison Rose Levy

I cheered when I learned of First Lady Michelle Obama's new initiative, Let's Move, aimed at the mounting epidemic of childhood obesity. It's a breakthrough for government to address obesity's systemic causes.

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An Open Letter To Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King

Riva Greenberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Type 1 Diabetes, Michael Pollan, Oprah Winfrey, Positive Thinking, Type 2 Diabetes, Diabetes, Myths, Health, Entertainment News
Riva Greenberg

Many people are thankful that you shined a light on diabetes. However, while I'm sure your intentions were to help us, the show also added to some of the myths already floating around out there and left many people confused.

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Solving Seafood -- Sustainably

Julie Packard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Target, Aquaculture, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Pollan, Marine Life, Seafood Choices Alliance, Fish, Sustainable Fishing, Seafood Summit, Seafood Watch, Fishing, Oceans, Sustainable Seafood, Blue Revolution, The Green Revolution, Ocean, Seafood, Green News
Julie Packard

I just returned from the Seafood Choices Alliance Seafood Summit in Paris, a gathering of over 600 business and NGO leaders concerned about the future of seafood.

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Another Assault on the SOLE Food Movement

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Food Agenda, Farming, Will Harris, Ethical, Local, Farm Bureau, Organic, Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs), Sustainable, Slow Food, Usda, Kathleen Merrigan, Michael Pollan, Local Food, Food Safety, Weekly Standard, Gmos, Practical Farmers of Iowa, Perc, Pfi, Sole, Politics News
Kurt Michael Friese

Causing no end of difficulties in our national discourse is the steadfast belief held by both the right and the left that everything is either right o...

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Health Care Begins With a Grocery Cart

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Farming, Michael Pollan, Robyn O'Brien, Allergykids, Health Care Reform, Usda, Diabetes, Cancer, Subsidies, Diet, Organic, Health Care, Allergies, Oprah, Healthy Living News
Robyn O'Brien

Safe food is a social justice issue that our taxpayer dollars could be used to support. Perhaps it's time to invite the USDA into the health care debate.

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Edible Cinema Makes Good: Food, Inc. Earns an Oscar Nod

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Michael Pollan, Robert Kenner, Food Documentaries, Food Inc., Food Politics, The Queer Farmer Project, Oprah, Julie and Julia, The Greenhorns, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

Food, Inc. is an amazing film that caught fire upon release and is still burning bright, having caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey.

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Healthcare Reform Is Irrevelant Until Americans Improve Their Lifestyles

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Junk Food, Michael Pollan, Emergency Room Care, Junk Food Ads, Oprah, General Mills, McDonald's, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Obama Health Care Reform, Fast Food, Fitness, Health Insurance, Healthy Living News
Christina Pirello

A plan that bases health care premiums on nutrition and lifestyle choices could ignite the food revolution we need to rid ourselves of the burdens of preventable chronic diseases.

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Michael Pollan On Oprah: Let's Vote With Our Forks (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Food Rules, Michael Pollan, Oprah Winfrey, Video, Michael Pollan Oprah, Food Inc., Food Politics, Green News

Wednesday, Oprah hosted Michael Pollan author and food expert to talk about his latest book, Food Rules, and the Documentary Food, Inc. which takes a ...

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Got Ethics? Dirty Dairy Exposed

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Michael Pollan, Cafos, Alicia Silverstone, Food Inc., Dairy, Eat Well Guide, Humane Society of the US, Vegan, Milk, Cafo, Oprah, Hsus, Tara Lohan, Nightline, Alternet, Animals, Healthy Living News
Sarah Newman

You don't have to give up dairy, but you can start buying dairy from local farms that treat their animals humanely.

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My Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Cooperatives, Newspapers, Twitter, Civil Disobedience, Evictions, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Media, Facebook, Democratic Party, Green Energy, Single Payer, Barack Obama, Movies, Campaign Finance, Michael Pollan, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Protest, Sarah Palin, Showdown-in-Chicago, Financial Crisis, Capitalism: A Love Story, Universal Health Care, Climate Change, Foreclosure, Medicare, Unions, Global Warming, Politics News
Michael Moore

I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!

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Meatless Monday: Listening To Your Broccoli

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Mel Brooks, Broccoli, Michael Pollan, Ccf, Meatless Monday Recipe, Meatless Mondays, Green News
Ellen Kanner

In an old comedy routine, Mel Brooks plays a therapist who advises his patient, "Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli will tell you how to eat i...

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Eco Etiquette: How Can I Avoid Genetically Modified Foods?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Green Living, Roundup Ready, Michael Pollan, Monsanto, GMO Corn, Genetically Modified Food, Genetically Modified Organisms, Gmos, GMO Labeling, Organic Food, Non-GMO Shopping Guide, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

I'm on a kick to boycott all GMOs [genetically modified organisms] because I don't want to support environmentally toxic agricultural policies. But ho...

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The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Pesticides, Usda, Michael Pollan, Kathleen Merrigan, Research, Tom Vilsack, President Obama, Cafo, Big Ag, Food Safety, Food Policy, Technology, E. Coli, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Green News
Paula Crossfield

A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.

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The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Veganism, Farming, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Why Our Health Matters, Books, Dr. Andrew Weil, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Books News, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Dr. Andrew Weil

If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.

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Michael Pollan's Collection Of Food Rules

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food, Michael Pollan, Green Living, Health, Eating Healthy, Green News

Earlier this year, Michael Pollan posted a request for reader's rules about eating on Well, Tara Parker Pope's health blog. Within days, more than 2,5...

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The Perfect Food World and Its Missing Ingredient

Elissa Altman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: The Edible Schoolyard, Tom Philpott, Michael Pollan, Laura Shapiro, Culinary Education, Csa, Green News
Elissa Altman

Tthe problem is at the very end of the supply chain, and it's something that no one ever really talks about. The problem is in the kitchen.

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Michael Pollan On The Daily Show (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Video, Jon Stewart Michael Pollan, The Daily Show, Michael Pollan, Food Rules, Food Politics, Green News

Jon Stewart started out with a simple question Monday night for Michael Pollan, journalism professor and author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, and the new...

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