“The First Lady has effectively shifted the conversation about diet from the industry’s preferred ground of “personal responsibility” and exercise to a frank discussion of the way food is produced and marketed. “We need you not just to tweak around the edges,” she told the assembled food makers, “but to entirely rethink the products that you’re offering, the information that you provide about these products, and how you market those products to our children.”
In his latest essay, The Food Movement, Rising, Michael Pollan chronicles the rise of the Food Movement. …

Every time I ride my bike along the Potomac River I get so upset. There are all these folks best described as “workout buffs”. You know the ones in full running/biking gear. They would look like a hardcore biker gang if it nearly all of them weren’t overweight.
That’s the part that bothers me. Here is a group of people so intensely focused on being healthy that they will wear colorful nylon and short shorts. I can’t help but devolve into the raison d’être for A Clean Life (to help people …

Just how fat are we as a country?
Well a recent report on obesity rates in America gave us an F. In fact, they even titled their report F as in Fat 2009, by the Trust for America’s Health. The reason being that they found that 2/3 of all adult Americans are overweight or obese. Where the “adult obesity rates now exceed 25 percent in 31 states and exceed 20 percent in 49 states and Washington, D.C.”
Only Colorado is exempt, but they have an obesity rate of 18.9 percent, not something …

Food is in trouble.
You know I really struggled with writing this piece. I wanted to just present the facts with brutal honesty. To scare anyone who reads this into the movie theater to see Food Inc. Then I wrote a piece from a neutral point of view, to ease everyone into the story. I deleted both pieces.
On the suggestion of my Mom, maybe I’ll just provide the trailer:

I cannot escape what is happening here. I cried a little during the movie. I read the book it is based on, Omnivore’s …

You might find this strange but the most friction I encounter in my work with A Clean Life is through food. Folks are okay with trash and recycling. Many even entertain composting. But when it comes to food we are in scary territory.
Imagine that…more people are okay with sorting their trash than with learning about food.
I am lost on this one, but I do have a little clue. That is to question one of our basic assumptions, more is better.
I mean if you go to the market and their is …