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Why Daily Vitamin C is Good for Your Immune System
Worried about getting a cold or the flu? For many of us, the knee-jerk action is to take a big dose of daily vitamin C. For many years, C has been the vitamin with the biggest marketing budget (thanks in part to the citrus industry). Now, in the era of COVID-19, with many of us trying to figure out how to eat to best support our immune systems, let’s separate fact from speculation. Can vitamin C really help to prevent colds, flus, and other viral infections? How does vitamin C work in the immune system, and is it worth considering taking a daily vitamin C supplement? And if so, which ones are best?
Healthy fat hidden in dirt may fend off anxiety disorders
Photo by Seth Cottle Thirty years after scientists coined the term “hygiene hypothesis” to suggest that increased exposure to microorganisms could benefit health, University of Colorado Boulder researchers have identified an anti-inflammatory fat in a soil-dwelling...
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
WILL POWER / FLICKR By Helena Norberg-Hodge If you’re seeking some good news during these troubled times, look at the ecologically sound ways of producing food that have percolated up from the grassroots in recent years. Small farmers, environmentalists, academic...
Why Bother?
By Michael Pollan Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer. I don’t know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment in “An Inconvenient Truth” came long...
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
By Dr. Mercola I believe many of our country's chronic health problems would simply disappear if greater attention was paid to the root problem — the food you eat.Americans' reliance on processed foods is a major factor that drives the rampant disease increases in the...
Seeing the Connections: Food, Health and Climate Change
In this era of oil, technology and information, all of us are busy all the time. There is so much to do, so many demands from within and without, and we need all the comforts and entertainment we can get to avoid falling off the treadmill of daily work. It is also an...
When children warmed up to the charm of slow food in Delhi
You use hing (asafoetida) in your cooking, but do you know what it actually is? No? Then go and find out. This challenge was given to a group of 25 children, ages 12 to 18, from different low-income areas around Delhi, during the week-long Slow Food Junior Chef’s...
Monsoon Recipes
Image courtesy better butter.in Food has been a network of relationships which has evolved over time in a geographical context! Traditional food recipes have woven in folk wisdom drawn from observing and relating to a context. Thus, it enables the body to...
How millets were displaced across Uttarakhand’s hillsides (and why we need to bring them back)
“Dal chawal. Aloo sabzi.”“Roti. Chawal. Aloo fry.”“Aloo paratha. Maggi.” In August last year, I spent nearly two weeks in Uttarakhand. For the most part, I ate on the go – in roadside dhabas, train stations, and guesthouses. Whether I was in Almora or Ranikhet or on...
Why is Food allowed to Travel across Continents? Why not popularise local products and local markets?
Devinder Sharma writes on the dangers of food shipped across continents – grown in one, processed and repacked elsewhere and shipped back to the country from where it all started. Some decades back, I had written on how Pepsi was shipping its used PET bottles, used...
