Blog Entries about Health

Comedian Stephen Colbert made news when he testified last Friday before a Congressional subcommittee in support of migrant farm workers rights. Some representatives took issue with his choice to appear in character as the blustering conservative commentator he plays on his Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, but it was also noted that his appearance gave the hearing much more exposure than it would have had otherwise. Keep Reading →

Mark your calendars; Saturday, September 25th through October 2nd is Eat Local Week! Kanu Hawaii is organizing a grassroots effort to educate the community about the benefits of eating locally grown food. Kanu Hawaii was started by a group of forty young people who wanted to make change in their communities. It now has over 12,000 members on the islands who commit "to protect and promote island living - a connection to the 'aina, a culture of aloha, and local economic self reliance." Keep Reading →

As an aid to keeping you healthy, movie theaters and airplanes, among others, will soon be posting calorie counts of their food offerings. Keep Reading →

But if they're not fertilized there's no chicky inside, right? So then it's just a menstrual period of a hen. Well…seems the hens are fed bone meal, and that could be the source of the contamination in the recent massive egg recall due to salmonella poisoning. Keep Reading →