Just recently, I published a post about the congressional battle to preserve the interests of the rent-seeking flock, led by Big Agra-Big Foods. The Wall Street Journal has since published an article about the Obama Administration’s resistance to the congressional definition of pizza as a vegetable because this does not fit well with Michele Obama’s wonderful little war [...]

If you read this article in full (“Pizza is a vegetable? Congress says yes”), it’ll read like a comedy skit. The USDA, Congress, food companies (including huge players like ConAgra Foods and Schwan Food Company), and industry lobbyists (for frozen foods, potatoes, and salt) have been fighting over what non-food foods will be available for [...]

By now, the word is out on honey – that most of what consumers buy ain’t really honey at all. Even the Food Safety News can occasionally run a good article – “Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey.” After testing honey sold in grocery stores that was found to have little or no pollen, [...]

My latest article is up at LewRockwell.com: “21 Days Away From Dumping the Federal Food Pyramid.”

This article and video on CBS San Francisco highlights the August 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium at UCLA, and the reporter interviews doctors, scientists, researchers, and enthusiasts about the ancestral health lifestyle that has enriched the health and lives of so many dedicated adherents. From the article: A growing number of scientists, medical doctors and nutritionists [...]

Charles and Julie Mayfield have put together a great paleo-real food cookbook that promises to be a winner: “Paleo Comfort Foods: Homestyle Cooking for a Gluten-Free Kitchen.” I met and spoke with them at the Ancestral Health Conference in August. These paleo-real food recipe books are so important because the recipes are always simple (for [...]

A lot of folks (enquiring minds?) want to know how one goes about obtaining quality – real! – food at an affordable cost, and part of that effort involves finding the right resources. Hence my upcoming article on how to do this. It’s a long article, so it has been talking some extra time. Meanwhile, [...]

Lew Rockwell interviews Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon, on eating fat to lose fat.

Dr. Donald Miller is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He writes for LewRockwell.com, including his recent piece, “Enjoy Saturated Fats, They’re Good For You!” Dr. Miller’s great article was based on this presentation, which is now online. Follow me on Twitter @karendecoster.

The only thing worse than the name of the program – the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act of 2010 – is the premise of the program, which is to repeat the same mistakes, only this time with a dash of whole wheat. In an earlier post (titled “Shoot me in the head with a whole grain, [...]