This post comes from our friends at Meatless Monday…
Elizabeth Puccini is co-founder of the NYC Green Schools initiative and parent of a student at The Children’s Workshop School in Manhattan. With the help of like minded parents, Elizabeth brought Meatless Monday to three New York City schools. She tells us how easy [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Christina Roberto, M.S. and PhD candidate at Yale University, recently authored a study about the effects of calorie labeling on food choices. The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity study found that calorie labeling on menus improved choices, but posting the 2000 calorie a day [...]

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Today’s post comes from our friends at Meatless Monday…
Manhattan Borough President, Scott Stringer, has embraced Meatless Monday – and is recommending that the New York City Department of Education institute Meatless Monday in all city public schools! As part of his recent report, “FoodNYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System,” Stringer points to the [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Wellness guru Dr. Andrew Weil calls garlic “one of the best general tonics for the healing system”.  Those pungent, spicy little cloves reportedly have the ability to lower cholesterol levels and blood sugar, fight cardiovascular disease, enhance your immune system, and protect your liver and brain [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Two weeks ago the New England Journal of Medicine released a study that found cutting back on the salt in our diets has the potential to prevent 32,000 strokes, 54,000 heart attacks and 60,000 cases of heart disease a year. This Valentine’s day the best thing you [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Stuffed and Starved author Raj Patel is back with his new book The Value of Nothing. It’s slim but it’s brimming with ideas challenging our market system and the consumer passivity that brought us to economic collapse. The Value of Nothing shows how the environment and the economy come together [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Next time you look at a bunch of broccoli, think of those stalks and florets as a bouquet bursting with beneficial compounds.  Açai and goji berries may be the darlings of the superfood set, but there’s a reason why the Romans revered broccoli.  Ounce for ounce, this offspring of a [...]

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On Tuesday (because we were off on Monday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day) from our friends at Meatless Monday:
Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I want to state unequivocally that discrimination on the basis of color is never, ever acceptable–unless we’re talking about the respective merits of white grapefruits versus pink or [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
A healthy leap for mankind! Compass Group, the world’s largest food service company, says go meatless one day a week in 8,500 U.S. corporate and academic cafeterias! Its brand new “Be a Flexitarian” initiative is set to launch this year with a tag line that says it all: “It’s simple. [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
2009 was a landmark year for health reform, nutrition education and preventative medicine. Take the lessons of the past year to heart and have a healthy 2010! Here are our tips for better health in the year to come and the events that brought us here:
1- Recommit to a Healthy [...]

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