New York Times health columnist Jane Brody is upset. Like most advocates for public health, she can’t understand why Americans don’t eat their vegetables. The advantages are so great and so obvious, why won’t the population bend to the media barrage and do the right thing? Simple – because they are strongly conditioned not to. […]
Health, not Health Care (9/28/10)
What will be there for you? Over fifty million Americans lack health insurance. Republicans are promising to gut the Administration’s health care bill, claiming it busts the budget. They want to privatize Social Security and talk quietly about doing the same with Medicare. Many health insurance premiums went up 20% last year. The economy went […]
What happens when you “veg out?” (9/19/10)
Vegging out. You can hack, goof, hang, yet the meaning’s the same – idly and passively doing “nothing.” But is your body really doing nothing? Ask a plant. Americans are so used to working and living with machines, and seeing vegetables, fruits and cereals as commodities that magically appear on store shelves like industrial products […]