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Seafood Watch Super Green List

John Serrao — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:41:41 +0000

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has released a new 'super green' list of the best seafood choices you can make as a consumer. We have the list annotated here for you.

Making the Connection Between Sustainable Seafood and Nutrition

Christie Wilcox — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:37:39 +0000

You have a lot of choices as a consumer. Those choices alter the marketplace. You influence what kind of movies Hollywood produces when you stand in line to buy tickets, debating between an action thriller and a romantic comedy. And the choices you make when it comes to your dinner, particularly which fish you pick for the 16 pounds of seafood the average American eats every year, drive the fisheries hauling in over 11 billion pounds of fish annually. Choices make a difference, not only from an economic perspective, but from a nutritional and ecological one.

Mailbag: Is milk good for me? Sheep Milk?

John Serrao — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:14:31 +0000

How good is milk for me? In particular, how good is sheep milk of the Spanish Manchego variety?

Jessica, Washington DC

Thanks to flickr user redfishid for this awesome shot!

The Best Nutrition to Beautify Your Skin

Christie Wilcox — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:44 +0000

So you want to look good without dousing your skin in all kinds of chemicals you can't pronounce? Scientists have spent a lot of time looking at how different foods and their nutritional components affect our skin. It turns out there are some compounds which are really good for our skin that we can add to our diets - and they tend to have other benefits, too, like improving the immune system or fighting cancer. Here are the big ones you should make sure you aren't lacking in... (picture from Flickr User: FranUlloa)

The Sialic Quirk of Humanity

John Serrao — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:04:35 +0000

Why are people susceptible to so much disease? How is it that the most sophisticated creatures on planet earth succumb, sometimes completely, to some of the most simplistic viruses, like the flu? We would expect that our bodies have seen every intruder possible in our evolutionary trek to becoming human - and should have developed a solution. But we haven't. So, what then is this evolutionary step that has made us so susceptible to microscopic pathogens? A fascinating physician-scientist may have uncovered the answer.

Organic Fish Standards Announced by the USDA

John Serrao — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:49:14 +0000

Last week, the USDA announced their first organic guidelines for fish. The new guidelines uphold some of the traditional mainstays of organic agriculture, like banning the use of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides and GMO feed in some instances while weakening other provisions at the same time.

Most notable in the new guidelines is the inclusion of a loophole that allows aquaculture farms to obtain up to 25% of their feed from unregulated wild seafood stock (see the NOSB draft literature). The loophole does specify that organic producers use 'sustainable' wild seafood as the feed for their fish stocks but does not go so far as to require 100% organic feed. This is the first time ANY livestock producer (NOTE: the USDA classifies fisheries as 'livestock') has been allowed to include any non-organic feed into their own animal's feed.