Tipping Points
Louisa Enright
Louisa Enright, who has a doctorate in cultural studies, lives in Camden and is a member of Citizens for a Green Camden. She studies systems of cultural power.
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- Tipping Points No. 42
Part II: What’s wrong with grains?
By Louisa Enright - May 18Paleo Diet advocates argue that humans are genetically wired to eat meat, foraged vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. Paleo peoples, they argue, ...
The battle to save the Polish countryside
By Louisa Enright - Mar 02Sir Julian Rose inherited Rose of Hardwick House in 1966, when he was 19 years old. By 1975, he began converting to organic production. In 1984 he ...
Sprouting awareness, growing change
By Louisa Enright - Mar 12Sometimes, ideas that organize society, or paradigms, recede, like green life in winter. Now, the unsustainable market economy paradigm is ...
'Tapped': Bisphenol A
By Louisa Enright - Feb 07In the documentary “Tapped,” Dr. Frederick Vom Saal says Bisphenol A, or BPA, is “one of the most toxic chemicals known to man.” BPA, explains Vom ...
Consumer Christmas: Just saying no
By Louisa Enright - Jan 10About 10 years ago, I just said no to participating in what I think of now as Consumer Christmas. After I hit my 40s, I began to grow increasing...
Non-nutritive sweeteners: chemical brews
By Louisa Enright - Nov 16Containing no calories, non-nutritive sweeteners do not create energy. Thus, these chemical brews have become the backbone of the extremely ...
A new Kid on the block: agave nectar
By Louisa Enright - Oct 09In 2008, Rami Nagel decided to investigate agave nectar, a new kid on the sweetener block. He discovered that agave nectar first appeared in 1995 ...
Wolf totem
By Louisa Enright - Aug 25Millions of Chinese have purchased Jiang Rong's novel "Wolf Totem" (2004), published in the West in 2008. The novel, according to its English ...
Good fats, bad fats
By Louisa Enright - Jul 28Since the late 1970s, Americans have been encouraged by nutritionists, doctors, the government and industry to eat less fat, especially the ...
The 1980 U.S. Department of Agriculture food guide
By Louisa Enright - Jun 30The tipping point for our current national relationship to food began in earnest in the 1970s. There are many facets to this 50-year history: ...
- No. 41
The Paleo Diet, Part I
By Louisa Enright - Apr 20Loren Cordain, “The Paleo Diet Cookbook,” is a professor in the Health and Exercise Science Department at Colorado State University. Cordain ...
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Profitable statins
By Louisa Enright - Nov 28Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist in the Electrical Engineering, Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
Strawberries in winter
By Louisa Enright - Feb 26It’s mid-February, and many of us are longing for spring. Into these cold days, along come red, luscious strawberries. These early heralds of ...
'Tapped': Bottled water
By Louisa Enright - Jan 25The movie “Tapped” demonstrates that both drinking water and bottled water are more complex issues than I had realized. I had been somewhat aware ...
Stevia: Is it safe?
By Louisa Enright - Dec 22Stevia rebaudiana is a member of the sunflower family and is a native of Paraguay where it has been used for centuries. The leaves are about 30 ...
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The history of Aspartame: An American story
By Louisa Enright - Oct 24The Food and Drug Administration approved aspartame in 1981. The decision was made solely by a political appointee, Dr. Arthur Hayes, Jr. Devra ...
High fructose corn syrup
By Louisa Enright - Sep 11Despite the food industry's attempt to tell us so, all food calories do not have the same affect on our bodies; nor are all sugars equal. Most ...
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic: the proposed 2010 USDA ...
By Louisa Enright - Aug 11The U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have jointly released the proposed 2010 food guide to a fire ...
The failure of the low-fat, high-carb American diet
By Louisa Enright - Jul 17When Luise Light and her team of experts attempted to scientifically formulate the 1980 USDA Food Guide, they accepted two current dietary ideas: ...
Meat chickens
By Louisa Enright - Jun 16We own 20 meat chickens. Pete and Rose Thomas are boarding them alongside their half of the flock. Some of what we are learning about meat ...
