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Group Site Partner Nova Medical Re-Imagines Health Management

March 30, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

The old adage that every cloud has a silver lining ranks pretty high on the list of Things That People Say About The World. We know it isn’t true — […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Dr. Grace Keenan, integrative health care, integrative primary care, Kiet Ly, Nancy Jezior, naturopathy, Nova Medical & Urgent Care Center, Nova Medical Group, Sharon Lindblad, The Randy Radish

Does Wheatgrass Accelerate Recovery?

March 18, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

I used to be an athlete. When I was 17, I could swim 100 yards of freestyle in 47 seconds, and no one has ever swum 100 yards of butterfly […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: benefits of wheatgrass juice, drinking wheatgrass juice, wheatgrass and blood oxygen, wheatgrass and exercise, wheatgrass anecdotal evidence, wheatgrass experiments, wheatgrass skepitcs

Grassing up

March 10, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

It’s supposed to be good for you to a degree that makes you wonder whether it’s too good to be true. Some of the claims are hard to believe: “Wheatgrass […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: drinking wheatgrass juice, great country farms, Omega 8006, wheatgrass juice, wheatgrass juice benefits, wheatgrass juice claims

Appalachian Outdoor Readiness Fills Group Site Void in Purcellville

February 27, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

When I moved to Western Loudoun 14 years ago, you couldn’t buy a stitch of clothing anywhere this side of the outlet mall in Leesburg. Not so much as a […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: Appalachian Outdoor Readiness & Essentials, Chuck Izzo, Cindy Izzo, disaster readiness, essential oils, hiking gear, Kuhl, mountaineering grear, Osprey, Outdoor gear, wellness supplies, Wise Emergency

Wheatgrass Might Be the Greenest Super Food

February 11, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

A small but passionate group of juicers believes that wheat grass has remarkable healing powers. Some say the chlorophyl acts like concentrated hemoglobin. Some say it’s distilled solar energy in […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: anti-oxidants, benefits of wheatgrass juice, chlorophyll, detoxifiers, wheatgrass juice

Brew LoCo Hosts CSA site to Serve Community

February 6, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

Ever since my recent visit to Brew LoCo, a new shop in Landsdowne that sells brewed beverages and brewing supplies, I’ve been pondering the verb “to brew”: how you can […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming Tagged With: Artisan coffee, Brew LoCo, brewing supplies, Cathy Frye, coffee shops in Landsdowne, local breweries, Mary Battaglia

GCF Partners with Importer of Fine Olive Oil

January 20, 2015 by Kate Zurschmeide

  “Let me entertain you with some tasting while we talk,” Luanne Savino O’Loughlin suggested, and she put two bottles on the counter. One of them was short and broad-shouldered […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: balsamic vinegar, Cattani, donna Morea, extra virgin olive oil, fine olive oil, hydroxytyrosol, Italian olive oil, Jeff Chandler, Luanne O'Loughlin, Modena, Olio2go, Reggio Emilia, Traditional Balsamic, Trebbiano

Who is Naked’s Daddy?

December 17, 2014 by Kate Zurschmeide

Confession: I sometimes drink Naked because those labels make inspiring claims about the number of berries or papayas or leaves of spinach that were crushed to make the liquid in […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming Tagged With: Annie's Homegrown, Bear Naked, Burt's Bees, Cascadian Farms Organic, deceptive marketing, food conglomerations, GMO labelling, Horizon Organic, Kashi, Naked juice, Odwalla, Pepsico, Prop 37, The Cornucopia Institute, Who's your farmer?

Twice as Much Food

December 11, 2014 by Kate Zurschmeide

Three take-aways from the Intelligence Squared debate on GMOs: 1. Thirty-six years from now, we’re going to need twice as much food as we produce today, Robert Fraley said, repeatedly. […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World, Alison Van Eenennaam, Benefits of GMOs, Charles Benbrook, Dangers of GMOs, GMO debate, GMO seed, GMOs, Intelligence Squared, Jonathan Foley, Margaret Mellon, National Geographic, Robert Fraley, The Future of Food

A Civil Discussion about GMOs?

December 10, 2014 by Kate Zurschmeide

“Nature has many unknowns,” said the well-combed man in the black glasses and the avocado/boysenberry tie, “but one certainty is that tomatoes and fish do not have sex with each […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: Benefits of GMOs, Dangers of GMOs, GMO debate, GMOs, Grist, Intelligence Squared, John Donvan, Nathanael Johnson, tomatoes with fish genes

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