Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Then let me strongly recommend Michale Pollan's recent book, In Defense of
Food. Hit #1 on the NY Times nonfiction bestseller list. I never suggest
everybody buy and read a book, but this is the exception. He connects real
food versus foodlike substances with the skyrocketing health problems
sometimes lumped together and labeled metabolic syndrome. And the more we
jump from one diet fad to another the worse we get.  Considering a lot of
us who even have good health insurance can't afford so-called health care
these days, it's time to get radical about where we get our food. 

And btw that site http://whfoods.org/ and the book look very promising. 


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/25/2008 at 6:44 AM Pumpkin Lady wrote:

>Honestly, I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion on this 
>subject.  I haven't read Jeavons' book in depth in quite a few years. 
>While I realize it wants to cover a balanced diet...I wasn't interested 
>in that back when.  Also, my idea about what is food is different than 
>his. So basically, you have to figure a lot out for yourself.
>
>One thing that might help people do this is : http://whfoods.org/
>
>There's also a book you can buy with the info in it. It is NOT a cook 
>book although it does contain some recipes. It is a nutrition and how to 
>prepare food so it retains most of its nutrition book.  It has been 
>getting some noise on one of my gardening lists.
>
>Happy Growing,
>Morgan
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