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Prevention Not Prescriptions: Tuesday, December 8

Welcome back to Prevention Not Prescriptions Tuesday. This is a weekly forum where we’re coming together to inform and inspire each other to better health.

It's straight forward and simple. Tuesdays will be our chance to take our health into our own hands and say “hell no” to the pharmaceutical industry’s endless search for profits. Sound like something you want to be involved with?  Here are the details on how to participate each week.

Once again, a big thank you to all of the contributors below who got involved this week.  This edition of Prevention Not Prescriptions has everything from the low down on what’s in the H1N1 vaccine to the must-have health products you’d want if you were stranded on a deserted island (or at the very least in your cabinet at home). Enjoy!

And we’re starting things off this week with one of the most intriguing interviews we’ve had on the show…

Kicking cancer’s butt with natural remedies


Drugs…

MSG in your H1N1 vaccine?


Personal Responsibility

Do you promise to obey?


Food, Diet & Nutrition

Can we trust the food industry?

Help for cellulite with real food

I wanna be French!

Solving childhood obesity

Nutrition enhances injury recovery

Sprouting for kids


Self Care & Alternative Treatments

Health products you want to have with you on a deserted island

Preventing diabetes

Keeping kids healthy this season

The hormone high wire balancing act of PMS


Fitness

Lessons with a Tai Chi master


Happiness = Healthiness

Appreciate each other

Stepping stones


And your post is next…


In the Media

The Insurance Industry’s Lethal Bottom Line by Wendell Potter

The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods

Questioning a $30,000-a-Month Cancer Drug




Related:

Give the gift of prevention for the holidays…

Thank you Bill Moyers and Wendell Potter

Prevention Not Prescriptions:  Tuesday, December 1

Prevention Not Prescriptions: Tuesday, December 1

Welcome back to Prevention Not Prescriptions Tuesday. This is a weekly forum where we’re coming together to inform and inspire each other to better health.

It's straight forward and simple. Tuesdays will be our chance to take our health into our own hands and say “hell no” to the pharmaceutical industry’s endless search for profits. Sound like something you want to be involved with?  Here are the details on how to participate each week.

Once again, a big thank you to all of our contributors. This edition of Prevention Not Prescriptions is packed full of health questions that will keep you above ground and vibrant. We also have a very interesting discovery about BPAs in organic food, a recipe (and video) for kale chips and a call to action for parents.

Now, in case you missed this must-read article, we’re kicking things off this week with a little satire from Mark Morford (warning: get ready to laugh out loud)…

New Coke mini:  Now with 36% less death


Information is inspiration

Our health report card for 2009: Are we making progress?

Is BPA a problem?

By 2019, obesity will be number one cause of death in America

What the #*%@! is Cellulite?


Food, Diet & Nutrition

Getting real about our children

Krazy kale chips

The end of overeating

Weight loss:  Would a picture in your mind help?


Personal Responsibility

To mammogram…or not


Self Care & Alternative Treatments

Tis’ the season for Chinese herbs


Fitness

Nintendo Wii - Can it make you forget you're exercising?


Drugs…

Does Prilosec increase vulnerability to food poisoning?

Statins and Niacin…a concerted effort?


Happiness = Healthiness

Prevent relationship boredom

Defining moments

The wishing formation

And your post is next…

In the Media

10 Signs Vegetarianism is Catching On by Kathy Freston

Health Care Savings Could Start in the Cafeteria

Women Don’t Work Out Hard Enough, Docs Say



Related:

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Kathy Freston on The Kathleen Show

Pick of the Week: Mark Morford

"New Coke mini: Now with 36% less death!"

 

"New Coke mini: Now with 36% less death!" is brilliant, funny and disturbingly dead on. An argument could be made that it should be required reading in every college and high school throughout the country. 

As for Mark Morford? On his more conservative days, he pushes the boundaries as a PG-13 writer. Every other day, he tiptoes into R and beyond. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Recent picks:

We the Living 

Alexi Murdoch 

Lance Armstrong at 18 years old 

See all of Kathleen's past picks
 

Hold the lemon, PLEASE.

I posted this video a year ago and still haven't been able to touch a restaurant lemon since.

Another great reason to eat and cook at home. Where the lemons are clean.

This entry has been posted as part of Food Renegade's Fight Back Friday.

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I've been "Chopped"

The show that got my kids eating and cooking foods I've never even heard of...

I'll admit it. As much as I am a believer in real food—local and organic when possible—I've never had a lot of patience (ok, interest) in cooking. And as expected, that was the less than stellar example I was setting for my kids.

But one show changed everything in our house. Chopped is one of those slightly cheesy Food Network shows where the editing and music is as over-dramatized as an afternoon soap opera. But hot damn if it doesn't do something right.

Because in a house where we don't watch TV, we can't wait for the next episode of Chopped. And in a house where heavy cooking consists of opening a box of organic cereal, we are now cooking up a storm—focusing on "presentation, taste and creativity". My kids are asking us to buy things like plantains, crème fraîche, and jícama. And then they're cooking it. And eating it. And I'm a more peaceful sleeper.

We've even had a few Chopped competitions of our own which makes for a fun, tasty and competitive weekend afternoon. (Alright, mommy has yet to win, but next time I'm digging deep and whipping up some kumquat magic.)

Now that's good television.

(I want to give a special shout out to my best friend Michelle Backes for turning us on to Chopped. The woman runs circles around me.)

This entry has been posted as part of Food Renegade's Fight Back Friday.

Previous Fight Back Friday posts:

Five minutes about your "Ingredients"

The belly of the food movement?  Kids...

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Prevention Not Prescriptions: Tuesday, October 27

Welcome back to Prevention Not Prescriptions Tuesday. This is a weekly forum where we’re coming together to inform and inspire each other to better health.

It's straight forward and simple. Tuesdays will be our chance to take our health into our own hands and say “hell no” to the pharmaceutical industry’s endless search for profits. Sound like something you want to be involved with? Here are the details on how to participate each week.

And a big thank you to all of the contributors below who got involved this week. Let’s dive into these great posts...everything from super boosting our immune systems to taking a peek inside our medicine cabinets. Enjoy!

Food and Nutrition

Poor nutrition driving rise in kidney stones

3 simple steps to a killer immune system

My daughter's eye: a miracle of proper nutrition

Eating like the French

Injury recovery without Rx

Fitness

How are your bones doing?

Strengthen your bones for $5

(Crazy...two entries on bones in one week. Maybe a Halloween thing?)

Body & Soul

Connect with nature and heal

Pro-prevention

What's in my medicine cabinet?

The Politics of Health

Applying tobacco success to alcohol

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“Side Effects” starring Katherine Heigl

“Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety”

Amusing (and creepy) vintage drug ads

Pharma: Still Chasing Skirts

This week: Fast food doesn't have to be crap food

Posted by Cari @ The Kathleen Show

This week on The Kathleen Show we're talking about turning the tide in the fast food industry and making it healthy, ethical and...profitable? Yes, it's possible, and Kathleen is highlighting the company that's leading the way. Here's who she's talking to:

Vaughan Lazar: The President and Co-Founder of Pizza Fusion, a company whose mission is "saving the planet one pizza at a time." Vaughan talks about his innovative restaurant chain, and their quest to change the model of the American fast food chain. They're creating eco-friendly, locally sourced, organic fare that's fast too. This is a show for anybody who's been on the go and was forced to eat the crap they pawn off for food on the side of the highway.

Also on the air this week, Kathleen talks to a woman who's an inspiration to all of us.

Patricia Carlson: We all can name people in our lives (and maybe ourselves?) who catch a cold or get a hangnail and it's the end of the world--they are down for the count and caught in 'victim hell'. Not Patricia Carlson. Despite a lifelong genetic disorder, deteriorating health and physical limitations, Patricia lives a bold and successful life. Not only has she remained a force in her career, but also serves as a source of inspiration, strentgh and optimism to everyone around her. What does she do that most of us don't do? Or more importantly, what does she think that most of us don't think?

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Prevention Not Prescriptions

Tuesday, October 20

Welcome to our first installment of Prevention Not Prescriptions. This is a weekly forum where we’re coming together to inform and inspire each other to better health.

It's straight forward and simple. Tuesdays will be our chance to take our health into our own hands and say “hell no” to the pharmaceutical industry’s endless search for profits. Sound like something you want to be involved with? Here are the details on how to participate each week.

And a big thank you to all of the contributors below who got involved to help us kick-off Prevention Not Prescriptions. Let’s dive into these great posts...everything from keeping our kids healthy at school to trying out a "flexitarian" diet. Enjoy!

10 things we should teach every kid about food

Functional beverages: Un-Red Bull?

Keeping kids healthy at school

Managing your own health

Is Tai Chi only for seniors?

Simple healthy lifestyle choices can thwart chronic illness

Tracking calories doesn’t have to be tedious

Fight back by fixing your digestion naturally

Flex your eating habits

New breed of sweet potato likely culprit in reducing cancer risk

Take it easy

Preparing for delivery, helping to prevent interventions

Why I hate "The Biggest Loser"

Inhale, exhale

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Five minutes about your "Ingredients"

Posted by Cari @ The Kathleen Show

Some of you may already be on top of this one, but we recently started hearing some buzz about the new film, “Ingredients”. And after watching the trailer (above), we know why.

There are so many fantastic quotes about the way we should be eating in those five minutes of footage, that we’re slating it as a must-see film (even before we’ve watched it!).

Here’s one line from the film that really struck a chord with us…“It’s a painfully obvious truth. You can pay the doctor, or pay the farmer.”

It really doesn’t get said any better than that when it comes to reinvigorating our food system and encouraging people to invest in their communities and health.

So “Ingredients” is next on our viewing list. If you’re interested in seeing it, you can buy the DVD online, or if you want to help grow the local food movement in your area, you can organize a community screening of the film.

And if you've seen “Ingredients” we'd love your comments below.

This entry has been posted as part of Food Renegade’s Fight Back Friday.


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