FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS ON ...
Food, Diet, Nutrition - Audio News

Food Chain Radio

Mark Twain's Birthday Breakfast — 02 Jul 2010 — Author Andrew Beahrs discusses "Lost Foods"—the marvelous "real foods" that were eaten in the days before we got stuck with over-processed foods full of artificial ingredients. As a test case to evaluate the actual desirability of food from 100-150 years ago, he prepared a breakfast that was sumptuously described in one of Mark Twain's writings.
Download/Listen   42:32
More Food Chain Radio

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
Twain's Feast

Nutrition Diva

May-Jun 2010 — Three segments to smarten you up on nutrition...
Foods That Can Prevent a Sunburn
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:40
Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Worse Than Sugar?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:04
What Kind of Salt is Healthiest?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:50

Uprising

Fresh - The Movie — 18 Jun 2010 — Audio segments of the insightful film Fresh, which features sustainable agriculture advocates like Joel Salatin and Michael Pollan, interspersed with KPFK fund drive requests.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   58:50

Gary Null Show

Sugar Shock — 21 Jun 2010 — Connie Bennettand discusses the health effects of consuming various types of sugars ~~ In the first two segments, Gary reviews recent health news, including the association of brain tumors with cell phone use, and gives a commentary of the mainstream media's use of the military's phrasing and framing
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   56:25

Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
Sugar Shock! – How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life, and How You Can Get Back on Track

Living On Earth

Heated Debate over Heating Milk — 18 Jun 2010 — Many states are considering the safety of unpasteurized milk and whether it should be legal. Raw milk advocates say that what they drink should be their choice, not the government's.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:37

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
The Raw Milk Revolution

Nutrition Diva

What to Eat Before, During, and After a Workout — 15 Jun 2010 — What should people, especially kids, be putting in their mouths before, during, and after playing sports?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:50

Diet Science

Can People Get Addicted to Cheese? — 07 Jun 2010 — How is it that cheese can be addictive, and what you can do if you think you are. (Mmmm.... cheese...)
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:12

Nutrition Diva

Diet for Healthy Bones — 08 Jun 2010 — Much of what you hear about diet and osteoporosis is out of date. Eating your vegetables may be at least as important for healthy bones as drinking your milk.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:54

How Much Water Should I Drink? — 18 May 2010 — Is the eight-glasses-a-day rule an urban legend?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:02

Deconstructing Dinner

Whole Foods Markets Targeted By Organic Advocates — 13 May 2010 — Topics include...  The battle over "backyard chickens" ~~ Ronnie Cummins on pushing back against the "natural foods" scam pushed by UNFI, Whole Foods, and the agribusiness giants ~~ Kim Perry on enhancing local food and farms ~~ Susan Bourette on her evolutionary thinking on eating meat
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:59

               

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
THE CORP-GOV EFFORT TO MAKE ALL FOOD INDUSTRIAL FOOD

The show:
Food Chain Radio — 22 May 2010
"The Right to Eat Food"
Scott Tips, president of the National Health Federation, discusses Codex Alimentarius, the far-reaching, coordinated effort among Western governments—driven by multinational agribusiness corporations—to change food and farming laws in ways that squeeze out small producers, maximize profits for agribusiness, and slowly but surely drive the food supply to a pure GMO/industrial food model, totally controlled by the food giants.

Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:40

Background:
The death-grip offered to The Powers That Be through control of the debt-based, fiat money system is becoming clear as debt-drenched operations at all levels founder and assets get snapped up at bargain prices. TPTB have also been quietly (and quite successfully) working on a second critical method of accruing power and centralizing control—food. A large majority of food, feed, and seed now is controlled in some way by one of the agribusiness giants. And through the World Trade Organization, food laws are "harmonized," effectively trumping national wishes with corporate desires. The Powers That Be are ever so slowly restricting our right to choose what to eat.

               

TED Talks

Graham Hill:  Why I'm a Weekday Vegetarian — May 2010 — Graham Hill lays out the case for reduced meat consumption in terms of human health, animal welfare, and environmental health. He wasn't ready to go full veggie, but he found a reasonable compromise.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   4:09

Coast To Coast

Update on Aspartame — 18 May 2010 — Dr. Betty Martini updates us on aspartame, an artificial sweetener she and others say is associated with numerous health problems. Because of the bad publicity, aspartame has recently been rebranded as AminoSweet.
Download/Listen   1:00:00
Coast To Coast  show page

Living On Earth

The Freshest Food in the Hood — 14 May 2010 — Inner-city neighborhoods often have limited options for fresh produce. So when the Harambee farmers' market opened in South Central LA, did locals flock there? Not exactly.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:26

Diet Science

Common Food Additives to Avoid — 10 May 2010 — A discussion of some food additives found in packaged school lunches and other processed foods: sodium nitrite, acesulfame potassium, and BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole).
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:13

The Real News

Global Food Bubble on the Way? — 05 May 2010 — Jayati Ghosh discusses the role that derivatives, speculation, and deregulated futures markets have been playing in the worsening global food situation.
PART 1:  Watch  |  Download/Listen   10:10
PART 2:  Watch  |  Download/Listen   8:08

Diet Science

Is There Anything Natural About Fructose? — 03 May 2010 — Can fructose sweetener ever be "natural" when it's in our sodas and packaged foods?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:36

Food Chain Radio

The High Cost of Cheap Seafood (a.k.a. All-We-Can-Eat Shrimp?) — 01 May 2010 — We have harvested open-ocean fish at an unsustainable rate, and as fish farms grow in size and number, they present their own ills and limitations. So why does seafood still seem so plentiful, and how on earth are chain restaurants able to offer things like 'All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp'?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:35

Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
-- Bottomfeeder

Related GP articles:
-- Overfishing
-- Mercury in Fish

Related GP cartoons:
-- Problems of Deep-Sea Creatures

Sierra Club Radio

Carnivores Go for (Some) Fake Meats — 01 May 2010 — Vegetarians will put up with all manner of tofu burgers and other "fake meat." But are there any veggie-meat products that hard-core carnivores think taste good?
Download/Listen   5:21
Page to get full show

Nutrition Diva

Which Non-Dairy "Milk" is Best? — 30 Apr 2010 — How do milk-like beverages made from soy, rice, almond, oat, or hemp stack up in terms of nutrition?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:21

Is Natural Sugar Better for You? — 28 Apr 2010 — Is evaporated cane juice more nutritious than refined white sugar?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:44

Food Chain Radio

Government Guaranteed Safe Food — 24 Apr 2010 — When it comes to food safety, is top-down control at the federal level really best? Or does that just punish small growers for the ills of agribusiness giants? Should only local regulations apply to local agriculture? Or should direct sales from local farmers to local consumers be unregulated?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:29

Quote:
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  - Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Nutrition Diva

What Type of Rice is Healthiest? — 19 Apr 2010 — Short-grain, long-grain, basmati, brown. What are the nutritional differences between all the different types of rice?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:00

Diet Science

Nutritional Benefits of Raw Chocolate — 05 Apr 2010 — What are the nutritional benefits of raw chocolate vs. processed chocolate?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:19

Related GP articles:
-- Health Benefits of Chocolate

CounterSpin

Genetically Engineered Foods — The Debate is Over? — 16 Apr 2010 — A New York Times report gives the impression that the debate about genetically engineered foods is largely over and that, despite some caveats and critics' warnings, GE crops are good for the environment and the economy. One of those critics, Ben Lilliston of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, says not so fast.
Download/listen to this segment   9:48
Page for full show here

Related book (on Amazon):
Genetic Roulette:  The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods

One Radio Network

NOTE: You need free One Radio Network account to listen/download their MP3s.

How Chemicals in Food and Products Show Up in Our Bodies — 12 Apr 2010 — Bruce Lourie, author of Slow Death by Rubber Duck, talks about how the pesticide residues in foods and toxic chemicals in everyday products affect our health. He gives a lot of good detail on how his team tested products on themselves and how exposure drove changes in blood levels of chemicals.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:03:03

Referenced book:
Slow Death by Rubber Duck:  The Secret Danger of Everyday Things

Nutrition Diva

Should You Be Worried About Sulfites in Food and Wine? — 07 Apr 2010 — Sulfites occur naturally and are added artificially. How much of a problem are they?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:39

Food Chain Radio

Big vs. Small Farms — 27 Mar 2010 — Is reverting to small farms truly the solution to the ills of mega-farms and corporate agriculture? Can the two co-exist peacefully and productively? Or will the agribusiness juggernaut eventually drive mom and pop out of the farming biz?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:51

Against The Grain

Food Waste - The Effluent of Affluence — 24 Mar 2010 — Could it be that what we don't eat is destroying our environment? The vast amount of food that is wasted by manufacturers, supermarkets, farmers, and consumers—up to 50 percent of food grown in the US—has massive ecological consequences, leading to depletion of fish stocks, decimation of rainforests (to grow grains for livestock), and mountains of methane-emitting landfills.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   53:00

NOW

Food, Inc. — 05 Mar 2010 — An interview with the creator of the film Food, Inc., which exposes the grinding industrialism and putrid politics of today's food and farming industries.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   20:44

Food Chain Radio

The Food Safety Totalitarians
Feb 2010 — Nicole Johnson explains how food scares caused by products from the industrial food sector are being used as an excuse by the government-corporate agribusiness axis to exert tighter control over small and local producers—who aren't causing the problems!
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:33

The Right to Raw
Jan 2010 — Many people feel the nutritional benefits of raw milk, raw almonds, and other straight-from-nature foods outweigh the miniscule risk associated with unpasteurized food products. Yet the US Department of Agriculture seems determined to deny consumers that choice. Why?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:27

Can We Eat Our Way to Happiness?
Jan 2010 — By minimizing processed foods and instead focusing on real foods, eaten in the right amounts and at the right time of day, you can feel good physically, sleep better, and have a bright, shiny, happy mind.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:30

Peak Moment

Local Food, By and For the People — 31 Jan 2010 — Energy constraints, debt unwinding, and many other factors threaten the stability of the food supply. Part of the solution, says agriculture activist Krishna Singh Khalsa, is to move away from corporate-driven models to relationship-based cooperative models. Can the success of LINUX be a model for the future of food?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   27:57

Two Beers With Steve

Food:  Leaving Global and Industrial for Local and Organic
Jan 2010 — How, in half a century, did we go from a system of predominantly local, fresh, healthy food to a system of over-processed, low-nutrient, industrial junk food? The guest is Chris Bedford, maker of the film What Will We Eat?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:10:23

Nutrition Diva

Are Herbs Good for You? — 31 Mar 2010 — You bet they are—even better than veggies, in a way. Learn why.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:39

Is Fruit Good For You? — 24 Mar 2010 — A good review of the benefits of fresh fruit and the risks of overdoing offshoots like juices and dried fruits.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:26

Fish Oil vs. Flax Oil vs. The Rest — 17 Mar 2010 — This is one of the more intelligent explanations about the nutrional importance of getting the correct balance of essential fatty acids. Find out about the nuances of using fish oil, flax oil, and other other oils.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:30

GP comment: The only point she misses is: If you use canola oil, corn oil, or soybean oil, make sure they're organic—otherwise you'll likely be getting the GMO versions.

Is Pasta Healthy? — 10 Mar 2010 — The Nutrition Diva noodles around in the dietary facts associated with pasta. Is it compatible with a low-card diet? What is "plus" pasta?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:35

Food Combining Myths
Mar 2010 — Food-combining dictates sound scientific, but are they supported by the evidence?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:21

Which Eggs are Best?
Feb 2010 — How is the nutritional quality of eggs affected by on-the-carton terms like organic, pasture-raised, cage-free, antibiotic-free, hormone-free, and high-omega?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:11

Is Skipping Breakfast Bad For You?
Feb 2010 — Does skipping breakfast really degrade our functional performance or affect our health? Is there a "right way to skip breakfast"?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:47

Hormones in Food
Feb 2010 — Animal-based foods like beef typically contain trace amounts of the hormones used by Big Ag to raise food animals. Is these hormone residues a threat to our health?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:08

Is the Mediterranean Diet Healthy?
Jan 2010 — The Mediterranean-style diet and lifestyle is very popular, at least as a theory. Does it really work?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:24

Do Low Carb Diets Work?
Jan 2010 — The Nutrition Diva compares low-fat and low-carb diets and discusses the metabolic implications of each.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:11

Why We Overeat
Jan 2010 — The diva explores portion size and "the environmental aspects of eating" as they apply to overeating and weight gain.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:28

Is Drinking Alcohol Good For You?
Dec 2009 — What level of boozing makes sense for the average person? If some alcohol helps, how much is too much?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:19

Trans Fats and Resistant Starches
Nov 2000 — Two clips from the Nutrition Diva: (1) All about trans fats and whether you should avoid them; (2) An explanation of "resistant starches" and their role in intestinal health.
Trans Fats:
Go to page  |  Download/Listen 7:27
Resistant Starches:
Go to page  |  Download/Listen 8:01

How to Get More Vegetables into Your Diet
Oct 2009 — Come on, you know you need to eat them... Here on some tips on how to do it without making a face.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:11

Related books:
-- Monica Reinagel books on nutrition and health

Diet Science

Diabetes, Sodas, and Liquid Satan — 30 Mar 2010 — The scientific evidence of the link between Type 2 Diabetes and high-fructose corn syrup—especially in the quantities consumed via sodas—is now so clear that the stuff is being dubbed "liquid Satan."
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:01

What Is Truvia, Anyway?
Feb 2010 — There's a new non-caloric sweetener on the market—Truvia. What's in this stuff, anyway? Is it natural? Is it safer than industrial no-cal sweeteners?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:08

Salt Intake and Processed Foods
Jan 2010 — A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine explains the health effects of the high levels of salt found in processed foods and (believe it or not) sodas.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:37

Major Study Finds Diet Soda Harms Kidney Function
Jan 2010 — Looking for that good reason to seriously cut back on your diet soda habit? Here is is.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:24

Relieving Stress with Natural Foods
Dec 2009 — Find out what you should be eating more of to help mitigate your stress levels.
PART 1:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:03
PART 2:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:06

Crop To Cuisine

The Art of Overeating
Nov 2009 — Food-biz news wrap-up ~~ A successful campaign for animal welfare ~~ The health impact of neighborhood food-market choices ~~ A conversation with Leslie Landis, author of The Art of Overeating – A Bellyful of Laughs About Our Food-phobic Culture
Download/Listen 29:00

USGS CoreCast

Mercury Contamination in Fish Nationwide
Aug 2009 — A scientist from the US Geological Survey talks about the problem of mercury contamination in streams and rivers. Mercury contamination was found in all fish sampled; 48 of 50 states have mercury-related fish-consumption advisories; the main source of the problem is coal-fired power plants.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  6:28

On The Media

Prognosis Negative: Bad News on Health Reporting
Nov 2009 — TV-news segments abound with the latest diet and health advice, including gems like "Blue M&M's may cure paralysis!" Gary Schwitzer, editor of HealthNewsReview.org, has spent the last three years methodically reviewing TV health news claims for accuracy and responsibility.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:56

AD CLICKS AND AMAZON PURCHASES FROM HERE HELP SUPPORT THIS FREE SITE. THANKS!

Search Amazon.com ....

If you find Grinning Planet's free feed of MP3/audio news valuable... so might others — please  tell a friend

Or share this specific page:

Current News Download for all topics

Available audio-download topic/theme pages:
  - Corporations, Corporate Power
  - Food, Diet, Nutrition
  - Global Warming / Climate Change
  - Gulf Oil Leak
  - Peak Oil
  - Transformation, Consciousness, 2012