Food

What Does the Environment Have to Do With Diseases That Affect the Immune System?

By Lindsey Konkel / Ensia

The rise in recent decades of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis suggests that factors in the environment are contributing.
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Common Pesticides Are Found in Majority of Human Umbilical Cords and May Harm Almost All Endangered Species

Center for Biological Diversity

Here's How to Find Out If Your Tap Water Is Okay to Drink

By Lorraine Chow / AlterNet

The 17 Best Ways to Maintain Weight Loss

By Brianna Elliott / Authority Nutrition

Is There Such a Thing as an Ethical Meat-Eater?

By Joe Loria / Mercy for Animals

Food

  • 150 Years Later, Black Farmers Are Still Fighting to Farm

    Alexa Ahern / Food Tank

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 01/23/2017 - 12:00

  • How Trump's Appetite for Privatization Could Threaten Your Drinking Water

    George Potanovic / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 01/21/2017 - 23:45

  • How Big Dairy Is Producing Poorer Farmers, Sicker Cows and Unsafe Beef

    Will Allen & Michael Colby / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 01/19/2017 - 23:30

  • EPA Announcement on Bee-Toxics Pesticides at Odds With Latest Independent Science

    Beyond Pesticides  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 01/19/2017 - 12:00

  • 18 Foods and Drinks to Avoid Because They Are Surprisingly High in Sugar

    Helen West, RD / Authority Nutrition  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 01/19/2017 - 12:00

  • School Lunches Across the U.S. May Be Moving Towards Healthy Organic Food

    Anna Lappé / Earth Island Journal  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 01/18/2017 - 12:00

  • What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags?

    Robin Scher / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/17/2017 - 23:30

  • 13 Ways to Get More Antioxidants—and Why You Need To

    Manal Elfakhani / The Conversation

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/17/2017 - 12:00

  • 10 Superfoods Healthier Than Kale

    David Zinczenko / Huffington Post

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 01/16/2017 - 12:00

  • 10 Celebrities Advocating for a More Sustainable Food System

    Alanna Wittet / Food Tank

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 01/14/2017 - 12:00

  • Are You Eating Smuggled Avocados?

    Melissa Kravitz / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 01/13/2017 - 23:30

  • 3 Innovative Projects Strengthening Local Food Economies Around the U.S.

    Erin Sagen, Araz Hachadourian / Yes! Magazine  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 01/13/2017 - 12:00

  • Monsanto's Roundup Linked to Fatty Liver Disease

    Lorraine Chow / EcoWatch  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 01/12/2017 - 12:00

  • If You Think Healthier Foods Are More Expensive, You're Not Alone—but You May Be Wrong

    Kelly L Haws, Kevin L. Sample, Rebecca Walker Reczek / The Conversation  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 01/12/2017 - 12:00

  • As Trump Takes Office, the Public Interest Is in Danger of Being Exiled

    George Kimbrell / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 01/11/2017 - 23:30

  • 8 Simple Ways You Can Increase Your Metabolism

    Dr. Atli Arnarson / Authority Nutrition

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/10/2017 - 12:00

  • The Ultimate Global Warmer's 3-Course Dinner

    Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 01/09/2017 - 23:30

  • How 'Open Source' Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production

    Rachel Cernansky / Ensia  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 01/08/2017 - 12:00

  • EPA Bans 72 Toxic Ingredients in Pesticides, but Hundreds of Others Remain—and Aren't Even Listed on Labels

    Beyond Pesticides  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 01/06/2017 - 12:00

  • Beans Are Popping Up in Healthy Snack Bars—and Helping Farmers and Food Security in Africa

    Georgina Smith / International Center for Tropical Agriculture  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 01/06/2017 - 12:00

  • Weed Power: Milk Thistle, Liver Disease and the Endocannabinoid System

    Sarah Russo / Project CBD  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 01/06/2017 - 11:31

  • Congress Is Poised to Make the Most Far-Reaching and Damaging Shift in the Way Government Safeguards the Public

    David Goldston / NRDC

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 01/05/2017 - 12:00

  • 4 Reasons Why Plant-Based Protein Will Be a Major 2017 Food Trend

    Kristie Middleton / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 01/04/2017 - 23:30

  • 12 Bad-for-You Food Additives to Avoid

    Linda Bonvie, Bill Bonvie / Skyhorse Publishing

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 01/04/2017 - 07:27

  • 8 Health Benefits of Eating Organic Foods

    Joey DeMarco / Food Tank  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/03/2017 - 12:00

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    5. 4 Ways Goldman Sachs Will Wreck America from Inside the White House

    6. Donald Trump, Imperialist: He Longs to Build Up Our Military and Then Use It

    7. Civil Rights Lawyer Sums up the Struggle for Suffrage in the 21st Century in 60 Seconds

    8. 'It's Day 4 and It's Already Happening': Rachel Maddow Sounds the Alarm on Trump's Science Gag Order

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    10. National Parks Service 'Goes Rogue' in Response to Trump Twitter Ban

    11. Reich: Trump's Infrastructure Scam

    12. Trump's Dakota Access Pipeline Order 'Offends the Rule of Law'

    13. Ta-Nehisi Coates Schools Seth Meyers on Racism in America: 'Not Possible to Imagine a Black Donald Trump'

    14. 10 Actors and Actresses of Color Who Deserved an Oscar Nod in 2017

    15. South Dakota Republicans' 'State of Emergency' Is a Brazen Political Coup Against Anti-Corruption Law

    16. How Sugar Became the Great Public Health Hazard of Our Time

    17. Donald Trump's Watching a Lot of Television, and It's Worrying His Aides: Reports

    18. White House Sources Say Trump Was 'Visibly Enraged' at the Size of the Women's March: Report

    19. Here's How to Find Out If Your Tap Water Is Okay to Drink

    20. 'Women Will Die Because of This': Planned Parenthood on Trump Signing Anti-Abortion Global Gag Rule

    21. Is There Such a Thing as an Ethical Meat-Eater?

    22. Bowe Bergdahl's Attorney Calls Fair Trial Impossible Under Trump

    23. GA Tornado Victim Recounts Horror: 'Some People Weren't Even Fortunate Enough to Have a Front Door to Walk out Of'

    24. Donald Trump's 'Day of Patriotic Devotion' Has Echoes of North Korea

    25. AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on the Toddler Who Won the Presidency

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    1. Four More Journalists Slapped With Felony Charges for Covering Inauguration Unrest

      Jon Swaine / The Guardian

      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 15:06

    2. WATCH: Shia LaBeouf Shouts Down White Supremacist Until He Flees During Anti-Trump Livestream

      Erin Corbett / Raw Story

      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 07:07

    3. Donald Trump's Watching a Lot of Television, and It's Worrying His Aides: Reports

      Matthew Rozsa / Salon

      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 10:13

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 01/25/2017 - 06:08

    5. Reich: Trump's Infrastructure Scam

      Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 10:56

    6. White House Sources Say Trump Was 'Visibly Enraged' at the Size of the Women's March: Report

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 10:06

    7. Trump's New CIA Director Enters a Maelstrom at the Agency

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 06:13

    8. 4 Ways Goldman Sachs Will Wreck America from Inside the White House

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 08:09

    9. The Corporate Media Isn't Coming Close to Holding Trump Accountable

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 07:06

    10. Seth Meyers Offers Mock Empathy to President Trump for His Puny Crowd Size

      Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet

      Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 01/24/2017 - 03:33