Ever driven down a street, and for miles and miles you don't see a single healthy place to eat? It's all fast-food and chinese takeout? Ever wanted a snack, but the local corner store only sells Little Debbie's, Starburst, Doritos and Diet Pepsi? If the answer is yes to any or all of these, you probably live in a "food desert". ”Food desert” is a term that describes geographic areas where mainstream grocery stores are either totally...

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Everybody in the free world knows what a First Lady is. The wife of the president. However, a lot of people don't realize quite how powerful she can be. Eleanor Roosevelt used her position to advance civil rights and women's rights. Edith Wilson stepped in when Woodrow had a stroke, and screened all legislation. Now it's Michelle Obama's turn. With the obesity epidemic still a looming issue here in the U.S., the First Lady has...

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  With a little assistance from Catalyst, and other minneapolis youth activists, that could be the headline of the Star Tribune soon.    The Tobacco-Free Youth Recreation Program Coordinator, Derek Larsen, approached us at Catalyst asking for our assistance with the creation of a new Parks & Recreation policy. This policy would ban cigarette's from Minneapolis Parks. How could we say no? So, here we are. We plan on helping him, and I'm hoping you plan...

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Looks like I was wrong every time I said fast food is bad for you. Or at least, partly wrong. Although McDonald's makes that argument easy, there is still a dark horse in the race for fast food dominance. Burgerville, a Pacific Northwestern fast-food chain is changing the way people see fast food one grass-fed anti-biotic free beef patty at a time. Their eggs come from cage free hens, and those are anti-biotic free as...

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            Recently, the ever so wonderous Andy B. linked me to a great site, WWW.GOOD.IS. While perusing this wonderful site full of mindblowing information I stumbled across an interesting little Flash tidbit. This interactive menu shows the USDA requirements for school lunches as well as two different meals that meet these requirements. One is a standard school lunch, the other is a healthier, and in my opinion tastier, alternative. I won't tell...

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    I don't want to be a Denzel Downer, but, I have some bad news people. Adult smoking is on the rise. According to a study released yesterday by the CDC, Ciggarette Smoking in adults has once again risen above 20%. However, the rise was only a .8% difference, and according to Hammon MacNeill, a repreentitive ofthe CDC "The increase was so small, it could be just a blip".     Don't get too worried though,...

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