Health and Sustainable Organic Gardening

• Gardening Gain With a Lot Less Pain
  Anyone can garden. I know people who tend water gardens from wheelchairs, and people with severe arthritis who still rake, prune, hoe, and tend to their yards as if they were still as young and spry as we all would like to be. Our gardens may not be as large as we once dreamed, and we may bypass some of the finickier plants that demand lots of pampering. But we can still garden.
  
  
• Research on Carbohydrates and Diet
  Recently, the role that carbohydrates play in the diet has been the subject of much debate, the result of the new popularity of low-carbohydrate fad diets.  Barilla has collected summaries of recent scientific research into low-carb diets and their effectiveness.
  
  
• Vegetarian Food Pyramid
  Dietary data from vegetarians across the world that enjoyed the lowest recorded rates of chronic diseases and the highest adult life expectancy show a pattern similar to the one illustrated here. The healthfulness of this pattern is corroborated by epidemiological and experimental nutrition.
  
  
• Can GMO's Help Feed the Hungry?
  "I wish I could speak more highly of GM foods and their potential. But the technology is now held tightly in the hands of corporations whose motives are, I’m afraid, very different from what they would have us believe."
  
  Don’t buy the hype.
  
  
• Should We ALL Be Vegetarians?
  Would we be healthier? Would the planet? The risks and benefits of a meat-free life.
  
  
• Stress Management and Relief – The Keys to Health
  Stress has become one of the main causes of poor health in the modern world. We all 'know' stress; we have all felt its impact upon us. But did we also know that we can easily and readily reduce it, saving ourselves the pain and anguish of many illnesses? It's time to remember how!
  
  
• About Eating GREEN
  Your salads will be fresher, maybe less expensive – and there's just something more satisfying about eating something you've produced yourself. You can even grow your own outdoors and indoors under lights winter and summer.
  
  
• About Whole Grains
  It's easy to add inexpensive, fiber-rich whole grains to meals and sneak them into your favorite recipes.
  
  
• About Flavanoids...
  Information on bioFlavanoids, complete with a large, printable chart of foods that contain the highest amounts of this super antioxidant.
  
  
• The Eight Laws of Health
  Health is delicately balanced on eight health principles.
  
  
• Water the Ultimate Cure
  We love water. We play in it, spend our leisure time around it, build our most luxurious homes next to it, enjoy some of our favorite sports on it, exercise in it, travel to exotic vacation spots just to be near it. Nearly seventy percent of the earth's surface is covered with water. And, whether it be by coincidence or divine, our human bodies are also nearly seventy percent water and the salinity of our extracellular fluids is also approximately that of ocean water.
  
  
• A History of Vegetarianism
  The term "vegetarian" was coined by the British Vegetarian Society in the mid-1800's. (The Latin root of the word refers to the source of life.) However, vegetarianism itself dates back to a time before recorded history.
  
  
• Consequences of Meat and Dairy
  Since our early years in grade school, we have all known that meat and dairy make up two of the four major food groups we need for a balanced diet. We were told we need meat for protein and strength, we need milk for strong bones and that eggs are the perfect food. If you still believe this, then reading Diet for a New America could be the dietary equivalent of hearing 500 years ago that the Earth isn't flat.
  
  
• America's Health Myth
  One hundred years ago, heart attacks and strokes were the cause of death for less than 14% of our population. Today, heart attacks and strokes are the cause of death for almost 50% of our population. That is an increase of almost 400% in 100 years!
  
  
• Dairy Foods and Heart Disease
  
  
• Dietary Research
  An excellent collection of well researched articles on why and how to eat vegatarian
  
  
• MILK: NECTAR OR POISON?
  Is there a time bomb in your diet? Exploding the myths about milk
  
  
• Vegetarian foods plant stronger sales
  No signs of slowing down for growing industry
  
  
• It's Never Too Late to Be Healthy, Studies Show
  
  
• Alzheimers:
  Losing Your Mind for the Sake of a Burger
  
  
• Alzheimer's risk linked to diet
  
  
• PepsiCo Kids Caffeine and the First Amendment
  Apparently, defending children from the perils of caffeine "upsets the applecart."
  
  
• Water: Drink Up!
  
  
• AtkinsExposed.org
  Atkins "Nightmare" Diet
More on 'Low Carb' Nonsense

• Good riddance to low-carb claims: Carbohydrates are not the enemy
• High Carb Diet Linked to Breast Cancer – REALLY?
• The Dangers of Low Car Diets



• 7 Strategies To Stop Eating Junk Food!
  FACT: Obesity accounts for 300,000 deaths in the U.S. alone.
  Research into junk food and fast food restaurants have found that there is a direct relationship between the number of fast food restaurants located within your local area and obesity rates.
  
  
  Subscribe to Garden Notes
and we will inform you of new articles as they are posted!