Eating Fruit and Veggies a Recipe for Health

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Did you know that September is “National
Cholesterol Education Month,” “Prostate Cancer Awareness Month,” and “National
Childhood Obesity Awareness Month?”

It’s interesting that all three of these disease awareness holidays are grouped together with “Fruit and Veggies—More Matters Month” (yep, it’s that too). Why? Because eating plant-based foods like fruit and veggies can actually prevent and even reverse high cholesterol, cancer, and obesity, as well as other common ailments such as heart disease and diabetes.

Tomato or Potato: The Farm-to-Plate Knowledge Gap

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Despite eating as often as three meals a day, somehow we’ve become disconnected from exactly what it is that we’re eating.

Case in point: a suprising new study out of the UK showed young adults are even more misinformed about their food than we thought. The survey revealed that more than a third did not know bacon comes from pigs or that eggs come from hens. In fact, 11% thought eggs were made from wheat or corn and only 40% knew that butter comes from a dairy cow, and 40% failed to associate milk with an image of a cow—7% actually linked it to wheat.

The Ethics and Economics of In-Vitro Meat

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What if someone told you that you could eat meat without harming animals? We don’t mean plant-based meats, though developments there are exciting, too. We mean meat from animals—but it’s grown in a laboratory and without the need to raise and slaughter conscious animals. Sounds like weird science?

It may be, but in vitro meat is also one of the most interesting approaches to addressing the animal welfare, environmental, and public health issues associated with industrial animal agriculture.