ON COMMON GROUND

January 12, 2016

ON COMMON GROUND: Confused by the Dietary Guidelines? Don't Worry, There's a Cart for That

Almost four decades ago, the US Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs came up with the first national dietary guidelines. The 1977 “...

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January 05, 2016

ON COMMON GROUND | Good for Health, Good for the Planet...and Just Plain Good

Have you caught Michael Pollan’s new documentary, In Defense of Food , on PBS? If not, check it out immediately — in fact you can watch it at the...

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December 15, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | Ten Tips for Embracing a Sustainable Diet

The best dietary advice on the planet is meaningless if we aren’t able to produce or access the foods recommended for health. Therefore, it’s no...

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December 07, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | Consensus or Confusion? You Hold the Key

When Oldways announced its groundbreaking Common Ground Consensus on healthy eating on November 18, our main goal was to replace confusion with...

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December 03, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | Why We Need to Stand on Common Ground Every Day

Two weeks ago, a group of 20 leading scientists and food systems experts met at our Finding Common Ground conference in Boston. Despite their varying...

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November 24, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | The Top 37 Tweets from Finding Common Ground

If you missed our Live Tweeting during the conference, make sure to follow us on Twitter @OldwaysPT and join the conversation today.

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November 10, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | The Dream Team of Nutrition Experts

Who’s your hero, when it comes to nutrition science? Okay, we admit that’s not a question the average person on the street could answer, but we figure...

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November 03, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | Stirring the Melting Pot of Cultural Traditions

Oldways is a food and nutrition nonprofit that encourages healthy eating through cultural food traditions and lifestyles. Those last five words ­—...

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October 27, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | Standing on Ancel Keys' Shoulders

In 1958, the year Ancel Keys started the Seven Countries Study , Jack Kilby demonstrated the first integrated computer circuit, and Sputnik 1 fell...

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October 20, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | Who's Living in your Gut – and Why that Matters

If you have the gut feeling that celiac disease is on the rise, you’re absolutely right. As we’ve documented in this blog before, the actual...

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October 13, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | Sustainability Gets Thrown Under the Bus

Last week, just ahead of Congressional hearings on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines, Tom Vilsack of USDA and Sylvia Burwell of HHS — the two government...

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October 01, 2015

ON COMMON GROUND | Finding Common Ground

Eat Chocolate for breakfast. Don’t Eat Pasta after 4 pm. Drink Wine at Bedtime to Help You Lose Weight. Butter is Back. These are just a few of the...

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