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Today is Halloween, a day that we don’t like for a lot of reasons: its ghost-and-goblins tradition and all that horrible candy given out to “trick or treaters.”
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/31/2008 9:17 AM
Friday, October 31: So Nicki and I will be taking our three children to our local church for its annual Harvest Festival, which is something we feel more comfortable with.
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Did you know that October is World Egg Month? Neither did I, but school kids need to learn more than the proper refrigeration of eggs.
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/30/2008 9:35 AM
Thursday, October 30: If you’re a lover of eggs, as I am, then you should know that October is an “egg-ceptional” month because schoolteachers teach young children how to safely handle, store and cook eggs during World Egg Month. And those of you with elementary-age children may know that October 10 was World Egg Day. Somehow we missed celebrating that special day in the Rubin household, but as I’m fond of saying, every day is World Egg Day in our home because we love eggs.
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Can you name the best-selling breakfast cereal in America? Oh, here’s a hint. (That’s the hint.) You’re right—Oh as in Cheerios!
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/29/2008 8:57 AM
Wednesday, October 29: Cheerios, the toasted oatmeal cereal from General Mills, has captured 11 percent of the breakfast cereal market, according to A.C. Nielsen—nearly three times the second-best selling cereal in America: Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes.
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There’s an interesting e-mail circulating in cyberspace about the dangers of MSG that must have originated in Canada...
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/28/2008 1:49 PM
Tuesday, October 28: There’s an interesting e-mail circulating in cyberspace about the dangers of MSG that must have originated in Canada because it mentions Tim Hortons coffee and doughnut shops, which is the Canadian equivalent of our Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts.
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I’ll never forget the time I introduced my wife, Nicki, to a green food drink...
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/27/2008 10:23 AM
Monday, October 27: I’ll never forget the time I introduced my wife, Nicki, to a green food drink. She thought drinking some “grass clippings” was crazy, but now she loves them.
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In these tough economic times, will people stop shopping at health food stores because they can’t afford to pay more for organic foods?
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/24/2008 11:44 AM
Friday, October 24: You have to wonder if organic food sales will feel the bite from the sluggish economy that’s been in the news lately. After all, organic foods can cost anywhere from 20 percent to 200 percent more than conventionally grown foods.
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In “Perfect Weight America,” I wrote that the U.S. government started keeping records of how much people weighed in 1960...
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/23/2008 1:42 PM
Thursday, October 23: Now comes information about how our diets have changed since John F. Kennedy was elected president.
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It looks like you might want to be serving your youngsters more salmon dinners with a large glass of milk...
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/22/2008 8:37 AM
Wednesday, October 22: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced last week that parents should double the amount of vitamin D their children are receiving to stave off soaring rates of childhood rickets.
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Earlier this month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California signed a bill requiring chain restaurants to put calorie counts on menus...
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/21/2008 10:21 AM
Monday: October 20: Earlier this month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California signed a bill requiring chain restaurants to put calorie counts on menus and indoor menu boards, making the Golden State the first to enact such a law, although New York City has a similar mandate.
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I find the following statistic quite surprising: one in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves and received Gardasil...
Jordan Rubin's PWA Blog By Jordan Rubin on 10/20/2008 9:18 AM
Monday, October 20: I find the following statistic quite surprising: one in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves and received Gardasil, the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer that targets the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus.
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