19 posts from 2006

Eating your way to health

Is the greatest source of information about healthy foods the site http://whfoods.org/index.html ?

They tell us the following about the healthiest foods:

The World's Healthiest Foods

130 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating. Links to the articles about these foods can be found below.

Of course, there are many other nutritious foods other than those that we have included on our list that we feel are wonderful, health-promoting foods; if there are other whole foods - such as fruits, vegetables, nuts/seeds, whole grains, etc - that you like, by all means enjoy them. Just because a food is not on our list doesn't mean that we don't think that it can be included in a diet geared towards the Healthiest Way of Eating as long as it is a whole, natural, nutrient-rich food.

To find out why some of your favorite nutritious foods are not included in our list, read The Criteria Used to Select the World's Healthiest Foods.

Common Knowledge Trust

Is common sense rarer than hen's teeth?  Not quite but it seems to be rare and getting rarer. 

Since common sense is in such short supply amongst our 'rulers and betters', and since the deification of the (disconnected) expert is so widespread - along with manipulation of the uninitiated - I have decided to blog any examples of common sense that I come across!

Please send me any examples you come across.  Here is an interesting example that has as its aim the sharing of traditional indigenous health knowledge of cultures around the world.  They are the Common Knowledge Trust and they say;

About Common Knowledge Trust

Common Knowledge Trust is a grassroots organization interested in sharing the traditional and indigenous health knowledge of cultures around the world.

Initially formed as an incorporated not-for-profit in Australia in 1993, the Trust was also established as a Registered Charitable Trust in 1995 in New Zealand. We hold an affiliation to the Traditional and Medical Clinic run by Dr. Barbara Sibanda in Zimbabwe. (See the Gathering Newsletter)

The Goals and Objectives of the Trust are:

      greenarrow.gif: To help transmit the diverse health knowledge from cultures worldwide.
      greenarrow.gif: To encourage the preserving of cultural health knowledge in an era when the homogenization of modern health systems is occurring throughout the world.

http://www.commonknowledgetrust.com/why_how.htm

These four quotations appeared on my desktop at the same time: 

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
  - Gustave Flaubert

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
  - Sacha Guitry

Ghost: The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. Ambrose Bierce (41)

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
    --George w. Bush Arlington Heights, IL 10/24/2000  

Is 4 Quote Serendipity the hot new game for Christmas?  Make it up. Rules = group votes 3, 2 or 1 on each players sequence of four quotes.