Study: Cost of diabetes $218B
usatoday.com 7/28/2009 — A new study, released Tuesday exclusively to The Associated Press, puts the total at $218 billion last year — the first comprehensive estimate of the financial toll diabetes takes, according to Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S, which ...

Type 1 diabetes
blogher.com 11/8/2008 — One of my best friends throughout high school was a type 1 diabetic, he was diagnosed in 7th grade and liked to remind people , teachers especially — who for some reason thought it had something to do with him not eating correctly — that type 1 diabets was an autoimmune disease , a process ...

Nitrates and Nitrites May Cause Alzheimer's, Diabetes and Parkinson's Disease Eat organic foods
borganic.org 7/9/2009 — (Borganic.org) According to a new study by scientists at Rhode Island Hospital, millions of Americans could be at risk of serious and even fatal diseases because of chemicals used to fertilizer and to preserve food. Scientists have found a strong link between increasing levels of nitrates and ...

Join the Organic Consumers Association's national boycott of "organic cheater" brands
borganic.org 15 days ago — (www.Borganic.org) Many popular brands of personal care products use words like "organic" on their product labels or company names, but the products they're selling don't meet organic standards. So the Organic Consumers Association ( www.organicconsumers.org ) has been waging a public campaign ...

What is the difference between "100% organic" and "organic
borganic.org 6/26/2009 — (Borganic.org) In the year since I have been writing this column, readers have sent in many questions about organic foods. With the White House and the U.S. Department of Agriculture planting organic gardens, these questions have become more urgent. Q: What is the difference between "100% ...

Is organic food healthier?
borganic.org 7/30/2009 — (www.Borganic.org) Tough break for the organic food industry, said Britain's Marie Claire magazine . It was "already struggling in the economic downturn as shoppers turn away from more expensive goods," and now the British government's food watchdog, the Food Standards Agency, has declared that ...

Horizon Organic brand dairy ditching Organic to Natural Soybeans
borganic.org 7/24/2009 — (www.Borganic.org) It was a decision that made good business sense. With the cost of producing organic soybeans on the rise and consumer demand flattening, Broomfield-based WhiteWave Foods Co. — a subsidiary of Dean Foods of Dallas — ditched organic in favor of conventional soybeans in all but ...

Certified Organic Foods
easyecoblog.com 8/25/2009 — A recent Q&A article from a NYU professor answers some questions regarding Organic food and Nutrition. Some of the most interesting tidbits from the article: Certified 100% Organic means that all the ingredients in a product have been grown or raised according to the USDA’s organic ...

Why Bother with Organic Food When You Can't Even Know What it Means?
planetgreen.discovery.com 7/28/2009 — There are all kinds of words being used these days to describe food; Natural is popular, and local is giving organic a run for its money as the hot trend. But when it comes down to it, Organic is a term with legal meaning as defined by the US ...

Top 10 Reasons to Eat Organic, Even if it Isn't More Nutritious
planetgreen.discovery.com 8/18/2009 — There's a picture that has been branded on my brain: A farm worker spraying fields with pesticides; he's wearing a contamination suit and a gas mask.It's just my humble opinion, but I've noticed a difference in the taste of strawberries, peaches, ...

The humane, organic turkey trot — All MNN Content 21 days ago
The day of the feast approacheth, but you've still got time!

Taza organic chocolate — All MNN Content 20 days ago
I was sent a sample of Taza’s Cinnamon Chocolate Mexicano. It’s a stone ground and organic chocolate disc that is just one of the many Mexican chocolate products that the company artisinally creates.   Stone ground chocolate has a ...

Food, Inc. available on DVD — All MNN Content 19 days ago
Last summer, I took my husband to see the movie Food, Inc., and I advised you all to take someone who doesn’t know much about our food situation to view the movie with you. If you didn’t get to do that, now is your chance.

How To Start An Organic Garden — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 19 days ago
From Associated Content, by Ilene Springer: If grown properly, your organic garden will produce higher quality, healthier foods '" and will be good for the environment and wildlife. Many people have high hopes for starting their own ...

Friday food news roundup — All MNN Content 19 days ago
It’s Friday afternoon, and that means it’s time for me to give you a little weekend reading from around the web. Here are a few food related items that I thought might interest you.   USA Today reports that Kellog is taking the ...