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This Healthy Monday tip was written by Pooja Mottl.
Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Eat Less Meat!
Surprise! Eating a bit less meat can lengthen our individual lives as well as the lifespan of our planet. This is the message coming from two recent Nobel Prize winners and a slew of grassroots and non-profit organizations. In an op-ed [...]

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This post was written by Pooja Mottl.
Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Watch your bread (labels).
We’ve talked about reading between the lines of the label-crazed food industry before. Earlier this month, our government’s watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), released a report giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency responsible for oversight of [...]

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This post was written by Pooja Mottl.
Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Go organic whenever you can.

The buzz surrounding pesticides rages on as an increasingly larger amount (including herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) continues to be used all over the world. Today, more than 5.0 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year, mainly in the agriculture market. [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday Tip: Be an egg-head and know your labels.
This Healthy Monday post was written by Pooja Mottl.

Labels. They are truly becoming ubiquitous in the food industry. On even a quick run to your local grocery, you can’t pass an aisle without reading words like: “all natural”, “nitrate-free” or “gluten-free”. According to a [...]

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Here’s another one from Pooja Mottl, our newest guest blogger, who was lucky enough to get over to Europe a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
During a recent visit to Europe, my taste buds couldn’t help but take note of some fantastic organic produce and meats while my eyes couldn’t believe how many listings of “free-range” [...]

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