Agrihoods Use On-Site Farms to Draw Residents APRIL THOMPSON For thousands of homeowners in “agrihoods” across the U.S., homegrown is a way of life. Planned developments…
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Excessive TV Viewing Linked to Cognition Researchers from the University of California at San Francisco, working with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and other research agencies,…
Trace Element Level Disturbances Could Cause Attacks Research from Turkey’s Yüzüncü Yil University has concluded that migraines may be linked with higher levels of heavy metals…
Edible Insects Can Help Feed the Planet Insect expert and bug farmer Sarah Beynon, Ph.D., a research associate for England’s University of Oxford, reports, “Two billion…
Supplement for a Healthy Attitude Recent research from the Netherlands’ Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition has discovered that negative and aggressive thinking can be changed…
Eating this Fruit Helps Consumers Make Better Choices Eating an apple before buying groceries may help consumers make healthier shopping decisions. This was the finding of…
Guatemala Just Says No The government of Guatemala has repealed legislation dubbed the “Monsanto law”, which was approved last year to grant the biotech giant special…
Choosing Meat that’s Sustainable and Safe MELINDA HEMMELGARN In his essay The Pleasures of Eating, Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer and poet, writes: “If I am going…
McCormick Going Non-GMO McCormick, the world’s largest spice company, plans to eliminate almost all genetically modified (GMO) ingredients from their product line by 2016. In response…
Our Wholehearted Attention Is Our Greatest Gift KAY LINDAHL Perhaps one of the most precious and powerful gifts we give another person is to really listen…
Humor and Fantasy Play Increases Interpersonal Abilities Research published in the journal Cognitive Sciencehas found that toddlers with parents that played with them using humor and fantasy…