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Healthy Eating

Can you eat locally in Dallas/Fort Worth?

July 10, 2009

Concerned about the quality of your fruits and vegetables, or just longing to recapture the garden-fresh tastes from your childhood? You don’t have to leave the country for the finest, freshest, healthiest food in the world — locally grown food is right here at home in North Texas.
Join the Trinity River Audubon Society’s panel of [...]

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Urban gardening: get the lead out

May 16, 2009

Urban (and suburban) gardeners, beware. If you live near a major thoroughfare or in an older neighborhood, your garden’s soil may not be safe for growing your own veggies, fruits and herbs. You probably shouldn’t eat food grown in lead-contaminated city soil. What’s more, children who play outside are likely to get liberal doses of [...]

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Local restaurant reviews: local and sustainable foods

May 8, 2009

D/FW Earth/Food/Animal/Green Building serves up these quick restaurant reviews for healthy, sustainable and local eating right here in Dallas/Fort Worth.
Ann’s Health Center & Market has many vegetarian/vegan selections, sandwiches and fresh veggie juices. Their mock chicken salad is my favorite — as a wrap in the store, or take some home to stuff in a [...]

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Spa chocolate special for moms during May

May 7, 2009

V Spa at the Hilton Anatole is offering a special on every woman’s favorite culinary treat: chocolate! Bissinger’s Spa Chocolates are healthy so that you can indulge without the guilt.
Bissinger’s has collaborated with Connie Diekman, MEd, RD/LD, a former spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, to handpick healthful fruits, nuts, and seeds to combine with [...]

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McKinney Farmers Market season now in progress

May 6, 2009

If you live near McKinney, the McKinney Farmers Market is now in season. This year’s MFM is bigger than ever, with more vendors joining since last year.
Bring the whole family for entertainment and activities. Saturdays are main stage days at the market’s Faires House Porch:
May 16 Emily Chappeleau from Austin (vocals and guitar)
May 23 Kate [...]

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When “good enough” just isn’t good enough

April 30, 2009

What’s a “good enough” life for you? Is it good enough that we slow down carbon emissions (or must we stop global warming cold)? Is it good enough that we eat whole foods and organic foods when it’s convenient (or should we expect manufacturers to stop producing so much toxic junk in the first place)? [...]

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Food allergies and engineered food: What’s the connection?

April 27, 2009

The peanut butter scare, the pistachio scare, the ground beef scare … People seem awfully scared of food these days. Yet a potentially even more alarming food scare has been building for years, rarely reported and often dismissed as too “radical” to be true: Is there a link between the dramatic rise in childhood allergies [...]

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Save money, save the planet: Texoma Earth Day festival

April 6, 2009

The Texoma area will celebrate a different kind of celebration of Earth Day this year. “Save money, save the planet” will introduce ideas, products and practices to Texoma area residents that will help them save money while they reduce their impact on the environment. The festival is slated for Saturday, April 18 in Sherman.
Held at [...]

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Conscious parenting for peace

April 3, 2009

Join other families at the Conscious Parenting for Peace Conference, part of The Global Peace Project’s Conscious Community Expo and Concert held Saturday, April 4 at Unity Church of Dallas. The free conference calls for nationwide and world wide unity and service and will offer a full day of speakers, events, ideas and activities.
A [...]

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Whole Foods opens greenest store in this part of the country

March 24, 2009

Whole Foods’ brand, spanking new Lakewood store is the greenest store the natural retailer has ever built in this area of the country. “When we open new stores, we try out all kinds of innovations,” the retailer noted in its Whole Story blog. “Some work, some don’t. We learn from them and share the scoop [...]

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