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Eat REAL | Thursday, June 21st, 2018 | Corporate Establishments, Food Policy, Health & Wellness, News Articles | No Comments

Center for Science in the Public Interest | June 13, 2018 | The food industry has until Monday to stop producing foods that contain artificial trans fat—a deadline that comes just over 14 years after the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke partially hydrogenated oil’s regulatory status as safe for… Read More

Eat REAL | Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 | Health & Wellness, News Articles, Products | No Comments

by Danielle Elliot May 23, 2018, 1:31pm EDT Illustrations by Chrissy Curtin SHARE In May of 1995, Ruth Patras realized that something was wrong with her 5-week-old daughter, Ciara. Initially happy and healthy, about a month after Ciara was born, the whites of her eyes started to turn yellow. Over the next few days, the color deepened, and her… Read More

Eat REAL | Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018 | Food Policy, Health & Wellness, News Articles | No Comments

NPR || May 19, 20187:55 AM ET ||MERRIT KENNEDY The USDA has released several options for what the labels might look like. Department of Agriculture Foods that contain genetically modified ingredients will soon have a special label. We recently got the first glimpse of what that label might look like when the U.S. Department of… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Thursday, April 19th, 2018 | Eat REAL in the News, Media Coverage, News Articles, REAL News | No Comments

Rick Hurd || East Bay Times || April 17, 2018 El Monte Elementary School garden educator Marian Woodard leads a class on the lifecycle of Ladybugs held in the school’s community garden in Concord, Calif., on Thursday, April 12, 2018. Mt. Diablo Unified School District was recently awarded a grant that will continue to aid… Read More

Eat REAL | Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 | Eat REAL in the News, Press Releases, Uncategorized | No Comments

San Francisco, CA (March 28, 2018) – Eat REAL, as part of the REAL Food in Schools Collaborative, was one of six finalists to receive a prestigious Battery Powered grant for their childhood nutrition project Catalyzing a New Food Culture in Mt. Diablo Schools. The Collaborative (comprised of Eat REAL, the nonprofits Life Lab and… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 | Eat REAL in the News, Media Coverage, Press Releases, REAL News | No Comments

National non-profit Eat REAL® is ringing in New Year with new CEO and VP, Operations Originally posted on PR Underground San Francisco, CA (January 9, 2018) – Eat REAL® announced Larry Ruff as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer, and Beth Seligman as Vice President, Operations. Larry will also join the Board of Directors of… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Friday, January 5th, 2018 | Health & Wellness, Uncategorized | No Comments

By Dan Charles || From NPR’s The Salt || December 4, 2017 Brahman cattle graze in a field in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia. Researchers can estimate the greenhouse gas emissions and land used to produce various foods in different parts of the world. They’ve used that data to calculate the environmental impact of a shift in… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Tuesday, December 26th, 2017 | Corporate Establishments, Health & Wellness, Uncategorized | No Comments

By John Ikerd || Civil Eats || December 19, 2017 An agricultural economist writes that treating Twinkies and carrots as the beginning and end of the farm subsidies discussion distracts from useful public discourse. In a recent article, Washington Post food columnist Tamar Haspel took author and journalist Michael Pollan to task for blaming the… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Thursday, December 14th, 2017 | Health & Wellness, Uncategorized | No Comments

By Jackie Bryant || originally posted on Civil Eats || December 13, 2017 Cooking for Salud! is graduating kitchenistas armed with cooking and nutrition skills. Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center catches most people by surprise. The large, idyllic, white Craftsman home sits atop a hill, standing out from the small, suburban ranch homes that surround… Read More

Sasha Mehan | Thursday, September 28th, 2017 | Health & Wellness, REAL News | No Comments

By Dr. Robert Lustig || The Sydney Morning Herald || April 22, 2017 Australia is in the grip of the twin crises of obesity and type 2 diabetes, and despite all efforts, it continues to worsen. A staggering 280 Australians develop diabetes every day. That’s one person every five minutes with a total annual cost… Read More