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WASHINGTON, July 31, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today encouraged consumers to visit their local farmers markets in honor of National Farmers Market Week, which will take place from August 2-8.“One of the Obama Administration’s top priorities is to make sure that all Americans – especially children – have access to fresh, nutritious food, and USDA’s ongoing support of farmers markets is important to reaching that goal,” Secretary Vilsack said. “At the same time, farmers markets help
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Megan McArdle makes a number of striking and counterintuitive claims about obesity here to follow up on the striking and counterintuitive claims she makes here teaming up with Paul Campos, author of the interesting 2004 book The Obesity Myth . That said, whatever value this sort of thing may have as a kind of granscian intervention into the hegemonic media climate, I think it’s all pretty irrelevant as an intervention in public policy disputes I’m familiar with. For example, I would ma
Improving Performance with Nutrition by Shery T. FletcherYou can only increase strength, endurance and muscle size by following a consistent training program and a proper nutritional plan. Training programs of pro bodybuilders and athletes are divided into several phases or stages with different performance objectives tied with specific nutritional requirements for each phase. The bulk of muscle development takes place during the off-season phase wherein a bodybuilder eats protein-packe
George Frey/Bloomberg NewsCans await soda at the Swire Coca-Cola bottling plant in West Valley City, Utah. On Wednesday we talked about an interesting proposal for financing health care reform: taxes on elective medical procedures like cosmetic surgery or abortions. While an abortion tax seems very unlikely, another type of “sin tax” does seem to be gaining momentum: the so-called fat tax, a levy on sugary drinks and other unhealthy food products associated with obesity.As my colleague Jackie Ca
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