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Green your take-out food experience

October 16, 2011

Today is Blog Action Day 2011. This year’s topic is food. In America, people have a huge addiction to take-out food, which creates quite a trash issue.  Paper or plastic bags, wrapped plastic silverware, straws, paper cups, plastic or Styrofoam containers and more trash, makes take-out food, not so very eco-friendly. Plus, most of this [...]

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Food successes at my house

July 6, 2010

In the last post I told you about the food challenges at my house. However, we also do very well in some areas. For example… Organic and minimally processed – we buy most food in organic form and avoid junk like high fructose corn syrup and other additives in foods as much as possible. We [...]

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Is childhood obesity child abuse?

July 5, 2010

In my opinion there’s a direct link between eco-friendly eating and a healthy fit body. If you truly eat green and healthy plus live green (i.e. get outside into nature and get moving) I think you and your whole family will be healthier. At my house: Today I was talking to my boyfriend Dave about [...]

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Is the obesity epidemic an environmental issue?

April 30, 2010

In a previous post about fast food toys being banned I said I’d be back with more on healthy eating and the obesity issue. First I thought I should point out some of the connections between obesity and green living… There are some pretty out-there reports that say things like, “People who are overweight are [...]

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Happy Meal Toys Banned – Just One Less Excuse for Poor Parenting

April 28, 2010

As you may have heard, Santa Clara County just decided to ban those little plastic junk toys that come in kid-sized meals from fast food restaurants, if said meal doesn’t meet specific nutritional standards. The specific nutritional standards that meals must meet are based on federal standards and recommendations from the Institute of Medicine and [...]

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The most depressing part of my day

March 1, 2010

Look at this! Really? This is the saddest thing I’ve seen in a good long while. I don’t watch much TV (we don’t have cable) but I’m pretty sure I’m going to try and catch this show online. I’ll be back to comment on what I think about this whole situation at some point soon.

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