Love those salad days

In the background, my garden; in the foreground, my dinner.

Twice this week, in mainstream supermarkets, I've found punnets of "living salad" - and I reckon you can't get much fresher or more nutritious (well, it could - and probably will be - organic, one day) than that.

It's delicious and a sign of how things are changing so fast. In fact, I reckon things are changing at an exponential rate now as we appear to be nearing conscious critical mass.

For the official news release, go to: http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/index.asp?PageID=422&subsection=&Year=2005&NewsID=549

Message to Euro-Americans: eat local food, buy global biofuels

The BBC has an interesting story on how Mr Peter Ndivo and Mr Samuel Mauthike, both small Kenyan farmers, are affected by the confusion around concepts such as 'carbon footprints', 'fair trade' or 'food miles'.

Euro-American consumers buy large quantities of fresh luxury products, such as orchids, baby corn, tiny tomatoes, palm hearts, mangos or carambola stars. Most of these exotic vegetables, fruits and flowers are grown by small farmers in the tropics, like Peter and Samuel. The products are flown to Euro-America on a daily basis, in jumbo jets. The smallholders depend on the market for their livelihoods - it feeds their families and allows them send their children to school.
read on at http://biopact.com/2007/02/message-to-euro-americans-eat-local.html

for a further explanation of the abve article on food miles read Saturday, June 09, 2007

Researchers: 'Food miles' too simplistic - 'green' needs 'red'
http://biopact.com/2007/06/researchers-food-miles-too-simplistic.html

Caveman Cuisine

Thanks to Dr John Briffa for this:

"Common sense dictates that the best diet for us is one based on the foods we've been eating the longest in terms of our evolution. After all, these are the foods we'll be best adapted to, right?

Those looking for some science to support this common sense approach might be interested to read the results of a recent study in which a primal or 'palaeolithic' diet was pitted against an eating regime inspired by the much-lauded 'Mediterranean' diet."

Take a new look at old ways at: http://www.thetrueyoudiet.com/articles/primal-diet-outperforms-mediterranean-diet-in-study.html

Dr John Briffa

Discover the truth about healthy eating and the foods that are right for YOU at: http://www.thetrueyoudiet.com