food deserts — The Good Men Project

Gardening for Others

January 30, 2013 By Scott Terry 4 Comments

Scott Terry learned compassion for the hungry from a childhood of hunger. Now he gardens an urban plot to feed others.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Food, Green Politics, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: accepting charity, california, charity, childhood hunger, christianity, community service, Davis Street Family Resource Center, economic recession, feeding the poor, food banks, food deserts, fruit trees, gardening, gardening clubs, gleaning, good works, harvesting fruit, Hunger, hungry children, Jehovah's Witnesses, poverty, raising chickens, religion, San Francisco Bay, soup kitchens, United States, urban gardening, volunteer work

Health Outside the Bed

September 15, 2012 By Derrick Idleburg Jr 5 Comments

How one medical center is affecting the health of its community members, outside the hospital bed.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction Tagged With: drugs, education, Food, food deserts, genetics, health, kansas city, lifestyle, mobile food markets, mobile markets, pharmaceuticals, Truman Medical Centers, wellness

Why Americans Are So Fat

August 21, 2012 By Justin Cascio 20 Comments

The gluttony of food manufacturers is to blame for the obesity crisis, not individual eaters.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: biodiversity, BMI, body image, Body Mass Index, calories, cdc, Center for Disease Control, cortisol, diet culture, diet food, dieting, Fast Food, fat, food deserts, gut flora, health, health at every size, healthy eating, hormones, lean mass, medicine, metabolism, nutrient absorption, nutrition, Obesity, paleo diet, paleolithic diet, satiation, satiety, Standard American Diet, statistics, Stress, weight loss, Western diet, what makes us fat, why are Americans so fat, willpower

What Is Sustainability?

July 30, 2012 By Justin Cascio 4 Comments

Like art, sustainability resists definition and commodification.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Green Politics, The Good Life Tagged With: animal abuse, animal cruelty, apples, commodities, coverage, doing business, ethics, farmer's markets, farming, Food, food allergens, food deserts, Frederick Kaufman, Freedom, GMO, Greed, greenwashing, Happy Meals, Health Care, health news, Hunger, Investment, justice, lobbying, long-term, marketing, McDonald's, mens news, nutrition facts, osha, pesticides, politics, poverty, security, short-term, solutions, starving children, supermarkets, sustainability, The Good Life, trading, transparency, USDA, values, Walgreens, Walmart, Whole Foods, worker abuse, world hunger

How to Eat: Hunger and Its Satisfaction

July 24, 2012 By Justin Cascio 1 Comment

We may eat to satiation but never be satisfied, if our food doesn’t contain what we need.

Filed Under: Green Politics, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: ancestral diets, dietician, diets, eating, Ellyn Satter, feeding children, Food, food deserts, food politics, health, Hunger, nutrition, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, The Good Life

Food (In)security

July 2, 2012 By Justin Cascio 3 Comments

Food security begins at home.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Freedom, Green Politics, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: body, choices, confidence, cooking, desires, dinner, farmer's market, flavor, Food, food deserts, food politics, Freedom, grocery stores, health, knowledge, lifestyle, mastery, needs, restaurants, security, skill, supermarkets, taste, terrorism, The Good Life

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HuffPost Live: Decapitating Extremism (VIDEO)

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Our Mission: The Vasectomy Files 8

The Vasectomy Project is encouraging men to join forces and take responsibly for family planning. This is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about our collective responsibility while offering men a concrete way to contribute towards a solution by having a vasectomy.