True Food - 8 Simple Steps to a Healthier You

You may have heard the phrase “out of true.” It means not in correct alignment. During the last 40 years or so, most of us have been eating a diet that is wildly out of true compared to what our bodies need, and equally out of true considering what is best for the health of the planet.

There are many people and groups today working to get the food system back in true alignment, working to preserve and sustain “true food,” but we — the food shoppers and eaters–are the most important. This is why we –Melissa Breyer, Wendy Gordon, and I–wrote True Food (National Geographic, 2010). More>>>>

I’ve been on a quest for a healthy breakfast that will also help with weight-loss for a long time. I love my toast with almond butter, but I am such with carbs that I will gain weight on that (or certainly not lose it). I lose weight on Atkins, but my cholesterol goes sky high and, well, it hardly feels healthy.

I posted an early version of this as a bread on the site, but this new version is working much better, and yes, the photo is true to the bars. I took it myself.
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According to Science News, bisphenol A, the hard plastic found in water bottles and other food containers, is found to cause heart arrhythmias and reproductive damage in animals, according to new studies. The plastic is also found to last much longer in the body than previously thought.