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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 |
Unlocking the Power of Plant-based Nutrition DVD Series
You can buy all three Unlocking the Power of Plant-based Nutrition DVDs--Food for Life, Weight Control, and Heart Health--for $29.95. That’s a savings of nearly $15. $29.95 Food for Life: Unlocking the Power of Plant-based Nutrition Neal |
Doctors List Five Worst Cookbooks of 2010
Fat-Heavy Recipes of Gordon Ramsay, Ina Garten, Trisha Yearwood Get Thumbs Down WASHINGTON—Bad boy TV chef Gordon Ramsay may make the ratings sizzle, but his recipes could put you on the road to a heart attack, doctors say. Ramsay’s cookbook, World Kitchen, is one of the worst cookbooks of 2010, accord |
Celebrity Chefs and New Classes Teach Plant-Based Diabetes Prevention
The new season of the TV show Top Chef just started and it’s packed with celebrity chefs. In the show’s challenges, chefs typically create high-fat, cholesterol-laden meals—like the ones that have contributed to America’s diabetes epidemic. But last month, PCRM presented its own challenge to |
Power Plate Meals Across the Globe: Chef Biographies
Native American chef and food historian, award-winning author, and photographer, Lois Ellen Frank has spent more than 20 years documenting the foods and ways of life of Native American communities throughout the Southwest. She is now completing her doctoral dissertation in culinary anthropology entitled, “The |
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Food for Life: Unlocking the Power of Plant-based Nutrition DVD
$14.95 Neal D. Barnard, M.D.; Chef Toni Fiore 63 minutes The leading killers in the Western world—heart disease, cancer, and stroke—can often be prevented and even treated with dietary and lifestyle measures. Explore nutrition’s role in combating specific health problems, from art |
Celebrity Chefs Teach Plant-Based Diabetes Approach
Four high-profile chefs joined PCRM in August to spread the word that a low-fat vegan diet can help fight type 2 diabetes. During PCRM’s “Celebrity Chefs Cook Vegan and So Can You” program, celebrity chefs taught diabetes educators how to inspire their patients to cook and eat more healthfully. Mor |
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 |
NBA Champion Calls on Congress to Support Vegetarian School Lunch Options
WASHINGTON—Basketball star John Salley is the first person in NBA history to play on three different championship-winning teams—and now he’s aiming to score for students’ health. In a free Capitol Hill event, John Salley joined Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., celebrity chef Lauren Von Der Pool, E |
Tune In to Food for Life TV
PCRM’s online video diabetes support group is such a huge hit that the program is expanding. The new Food for Life TV offers free educational information on diet and disease, including diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, as well as cooking demonstrations and group support for anyone looking to lose weight, l |
The Cancer Project Hosts Symposium, Capitol Hill Cooking Class
What do a charming chef from American Samoa and cancer researchers from major universities have in common? They all demonstrated to people in the Washington area ways to prevent and survive cancer when The Cancer Project held a Food for Life cooking class on Capitol |
The Five Worst Cookbooks of 2010
The Five Worst Cookbooks of 2010 A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine December 2010 Some popular cookbooks of 2010, including recipe collections from top chefs and celebrities, encourage Americans to fill up on high-fat, meat-heavy meals, even as the country struggles with record obesi |
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 |
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