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The Origin of U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Current U.S. dietary policies still reflect the basic design of the food guides from the early part of this century. In 1894, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed the first food composition tables and dietary standards for Americans. In 1916, the first daily food guides appeared in U |
Good Medicine Archive
2011 Issues Ivy League Animal Cruelty: PCRM Uncovers Shocking Animal Cruelty at Nation's Top Schools Good Medicine Autumn 2011 Vol. XX, No. 3 |
Save the Planet with a Vegetarian Diet
By Patrice Green, M.D. This opinion piece was published on July 19, 2007, in The Baltimore Sun. Temperatures are rising around the world, ice caps are melting, and storms are becoming more severe. Even the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding island communities are at risk. Death tolls from the increasing heat |
resources
Resources Steps for Going Vegan Step-by-step plans for making the switch to a healthier diet from PCRM's NutritionMD.org. Recipes Choose the foods to include in your routine, and we’ll make it easy by g |
New President Must Confront Global Food Challenge
By Caroline Trapp, M.S.N., C.D.E. This opinion piece was published on Oct. 27, 2008, in the Houston Chronicle. It might be the first world crisis facing our new president. Fifty years ago this fall, President Harry S. Truman called on Americans to avoid meat one day a week to free up grain to feed millions of star |
2000 Year in Review
RESEARCH ISSUES On Capitol Hill PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D., and research coordinator Andy Breslin provided in-depth critiques of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) High Production Volume Challenge, a massive animal |
Fighting the Food Crisis One Bite at a Time
By Hope Ferdowsian This opinion piece was published on May 8, 2008, in the Fresno Bee. Ntombi must be so hungry - and so desperate. That's all I can think as I read the endless stream of headlines about skyrocketing food prices. Amid the talk of abstract economic factors, her memory brings home the human cost of |
Power Plate Meals Across the Globe
Power Plate Meals Across the Globe Below, you'll find low-fat plant-based recipes from cultures across the globe that traditionally consumed a diet based on fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains. Through these traditional meals, these cultures avoided many of the chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, and hea |
Doctors Weigh in on
WASHINGTON—Doctors and dietitians with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are available for interviews on two major nutrition stories—a cover article in yesterday's New York Times Magazine about the Atkins Diet and |
Worse for Climate than Cars: Eating Meat
By Mia MacDonald and Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H. This opinion piece was published in The Oregonian on Dec. 30, 2007. Should you give up your burger or your car? Or both? When delegates in Bali, Indonesia, recently tried to hash out a new agreement to combat climate change, this question wasn't on the formal age |
Good Medicine Magazine: Expelled! Processed Meats Cause Cancer: So Why Do Schools Feed Them to Children?
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