More damning evidence that high-fat foods (I’m assuming animal fats) affect both memory and exercise performance. In a bad way. Here’s the Aug. 13, 2009 New York Times story and blog discussion on a report in the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
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For the first time since WWII, a vegetable garden is being carved out of the White House lawn. The First Lady says it will provide organic food for family meals, but more importantly, will help educate children about healthful, locally grown fruit and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have become a national concern. Here’s the New York Times story.
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NYT re-runs ‘Best 11 Foods’
A New York Times June 30 article on “The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating ” has reappeared on the NYT Web site as one of their most-viewed stories of 2008. If you missed it the first time around or have forgotten its advice, here it is again.
Influential food writer Michael Pollan has written a nine-page open letter to the president-elect in the Oct.12 New York Times magazine on why he will have no choice but to pay attention to how we grow and eat food. He says that cheap and abundant food will die with cheap energy. But on the positive side, he says, we have a chance to produce healthier foods in a less polluting way.
(Hey, next president, be a hero. Make Pollan your Secretary of Agriculture.)
Reminder: Pollan will be speaking at Bates at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the College Chapel, College Street, for the annual Otis Lecture. His talk is titled “In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution.”
Pollan is the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) and this year’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.
