Good Food
Master Cleanse; Michael Pollan's Manifesto; Diet Inventions
We discover quirky diet inventions, declare a food manifesto, and get two perspectives on the master cleanse. We lose weight through writing, unearth the Works Progress Administration’s foodways project, and learn about the red wine hangover device.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenTom Nardone finds quirky diet inventions, while Michael Pollan declares his food manifesto. Author Peter Glickman advocates the master cleanse and Dr. Ed Zimney argues that the master cleanse is a master scam. Artist Julia Cameron sheds pounds through writing, Laura Shapiro unearths the Works Progress Administration's foodways project, and professor Richard Mathies designs a red wine hangover device. Plus, Laura Avery serves up a fresh Market Report.
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7 storiesThe Market Report
Greens are at their peak right now. Laura Avery speaks with Paul Thurston of organic McGrath Family Farm in Camarillo.
Read the story7 minExtreme Diet Inventions
Fad Diet founder Tom Nardone discovers unusual and bizarre diet inventions that have received US patents. Nardone's also created other quirky websites, including Gingerbread Ghetto , showing the silly, yet dark side of gingerbread houses, and Extreme Pumpkins , depicting zany pumpkin carvings.
Read the story7 minDas Food
Celebrated journalist Michael Pollan , Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley , declares his manifesto in his book, In Defense of Food . He discusses the consumption of edible food-like substances, the American Paradox, chronic diseases linked to diet, and how to eat, literally. His creed: Eat food.
Read the story7 minMaster Cleanse
In his book, Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days , author Peter Glickman advocates the "master cleanse." Stanley Burroughs created this lemonade diet in 1941 as an alternative way to detoxify the body.
Read the story14 minThe Writing Diet
Artist Julia Cameron recommends using creativity to lose weight in her book, The Writing Diet . She discusses examining your relationship with food through journaling and suggests four questions to ask yourself before eating. Cameron is a writer, poet, and playwright and is the author of the bestselling The Artist's Way .
Read the story7 minDiscovering America Eats
Writer Laura Shapiro unearths the Works Progress Administration's 1937 foodways project, America Eats , which was abandoned because of political events. She chronicles editor Katherine Kellocks' passionate pursuit of ordinary Americans' accounts of eating and celebrating. Part of President Franklin D.
Read the story7 minRed Wine Hangover Device
Professor Richard Mathies designs the red wine hangover device. A drop of wine is placed in the prototype, currently the size of a small briefcase, which determines the amine levels in five minutes. He discusses possible causes of the red wine headache and the various amines levels in alcoholic beverages.
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