Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

http://vimeo.com/27278058

http://vimeo.com/27610549

This is a video about a group of people, that came from different walks of
life, but all had one thing in common, they were diabetic.

This person, Dr. Gabriel Cousens, soley through diet and some exercise,
helped most of them overcome their affliction.

Luckily for me,
I have the Union Square Farmer's Market,
where I can buy bags of fresh vegetables
at very reasonable price.

I juice them up in my blender.

I find, that for me,
Whole Foods Supermarket is too expensive,
Trader Joes is much better, as far as price.

@john from office:

The answer is education and availablilty of fresh food. Down in central FL you may have to drive 20 minutes to the supermarket whereas a fast food restaurant is usually 10 minutes or less away. You don't have to cook, which is a vanishing art, and there's no doing dishes. It's all that some people know about eating in a good deal of the US.

By the way, Yum! Brands (the corporation that owns KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Long John Silver's are lobbying Congress to allow their restarants to participate in the EBT program. As of now, five states allow it (more are on the way) but you can't purchase hot food unless you are disabled, elderly or homeless.

I just don't buy it. The produce deportment is the cheapest department in the entire supermarket. People really need to learn how to read "unit price" at the supermarket. There is just no reason not to eat fresh vegetables. Even frozen store brand vegetables are a bargain compared to anything in the processed food section that makes up the majority of any supermarket. This isn't rocket science....

Boooregosian. Wow, dude, muster a little excitement...

I would love to increase minimum wages for agricultural workers. Unfortunately, roughly half of the country doesn't want to consider such notions and openly fight against improving conditions for America's poor, sorry, America's "soon-to-haves."

Thank you for speaking with Tracie McMillan and for her hands-on research. I am very glad she took her time and put a lot of effort to understand the reality of American poor. Her work is nothing short of amazing, and I am putting her book on my reading list. Eight dollar minimum wage is wrong. Farm worker abuse is wrong (I tell that to my friends who have farms and employ farm workers, and they tolerate it because I am a Marxist European). I hope that one day things will get better than just 10% discount card at WalMart after fifteen years of labor and loyalty.

And forget about living on minimum wage if you're a single parent of a small child. All your pay would go to day care.

Ms. McMillan talked near the beginning about how fresh food was seen as something for people who were better off. I think the same mentality is giving organic food the image of something for the "elite," along w/the fact the somehow, the less is done to food, the more it costs. Don't put pesticides & fertilizers on it? The price is higher. Don't even cook it? Even higher.

As a former native New Yorker, always amazed and jealous over how New Yorkers don't know the horrors of Walmart (no one I know that goes there enjoys the experience) and Applebee's (joyless fried or microwaved food that merely sates ones hunger). I miss NYC and decent food within your reach.

There's a chicken-and-egg problem, if you'll excuse the pun, with "food deserts."

In addition to being low-income, food deserts tend to be high-crime areas. A good market has a calming effect on a community, but how do you get someone to build and invest in a high-crime community?

How do you force prople to shop for better food. I see people buy sandwiches with their EBT cards and candy and soda. How do you change the mind set??

Did she observe the brutal raising of chickens and cows on factory farms?

I never buy produce in a grocery store if I can help it. those water sprayers really only rot the vegetables faster.
I try to buy local or through a farm market in our area (year round). Such a HUGE difference.

Did Ms. McMillan actually live on the wages she made - and live in housing similar to what her co-workers lived in - while doing this research?

Also, Did Barbara Ehernreich's "Nickel and Dimed" cross her reading list before she started this project?

How lovely to hear Eric Bogosian's voice!

I miss seeing him on TV since Law & Order: CI ended - it's a pity they never explored more of his character outside of the office...

How has chains like Applebee's influence American taste in food and cuisine?