Posts Tagged ‘diabetes

05
Jul
11

Diabetes and Meat Consumption

There is quite a bit to learn about food and the system that delivers it to us. It is clear that much of what is in our food is not healthy for us. Lots of attention has been given to this in terms of diet its relationship to health. Specifically, individual food choice as a method to address diet related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity.

 It is also becoming clearer that health and food consumption is not just one aspect of a healthy diet.  A healthy diet must include food is that is produced in a manner that is health promoting. The following article give you a clue that we are eating much more than we know.

http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/07/are-pesticides-giving-you-diabetes




what we are about

Graffiti and Grub is a blog about the geo-politics of food. Graffiti and Grubs focus is to inform citizens on how to create fair, healthy and just food system. Looking to the hip hop generation, we want to encourage them by providing information, skills and tools needed for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. A healthy self is at the core of a healthy community. To have a food ethic, one has to have a land ethic. Graffiti and Grub is about reclaining SOUL FOOD by reclaiming the land of our ancestors. Graffiti and Grub reconnects all people to the land though developing a food culture.

Contact Us

Co-founder, LaDonna Redmond, lives and works for food justice in Minneapolis, MN. You can reach her at graffitiandgrub@gmail.com

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