Health
This section focuses on the many factors that influence our health—news and ideas that you may not find in the mainstream media. Here is a sample:
- Sustainability & Public Health – Unsustainable practices harm the environment, of course, but they are also make people sick!
- Expanding Health Care Coverage without Increasing Cost – a ‘white paper’ from The Dartmouth Institute
- Childhood asthma – a critical problem for the Lehigh Valley
- Breastfeeding Awareness
- Health Dangers of Teflon
- You are what you eat: how industrial agriculture is destroying human health – a research paper by a Moravian College student intern.
Food That Promotes Health and Wellbeing
To avoid the problems that go with food from the inudstrialized agriculture system, we need to change to food that is grown sustainably.10 Switching to such food reduces the levels of pesticides in humans and prevents some of the negative health … more
Community Education About Healthy Food
The industrialized food system has done an excellent job of marketing food that is nutritionally deficient and actually harms people’s health. To protect the health of staff and of the community as a whole (and in the case of hospitals, … more
Food Service Operations
With institutional service, what is not eaten is an important part of sustainable practices that contribute to public health. Commercial kitchens create a large amount of waste in preparation, leftovers, and food left on plates; this waste pollutes groundwater, generates … more
NOTES to Healthy Food for Healthy Communities
[Back to the Report] 1. ‘Industrial Agriculture: Features and Policy’. Union of Concerned Scientists. 2007. 2. ‘Redefining Healthy Food: An Ecological Health Approach to Food Production, Distribution, and Procurement’; Center for Health Design; 2006. 3. Marie Kulick. ‘Healthy Food, Healthy … more
You are what you eat: Impacts of Sustainable and Industrial Agriculture on Human Health
Following is a summary of some of the key findings of a project by a Moravian College student, who looked beyond the various industry and advocacy positions to see what is really known about the health impacts of the ways … more
The Healing Path
By Helene B. Leonetti, MD — As I get further on the path toward healing, I recognize that as a physician I can impact many people. When we walk our talk, it has a powerful, mesmerizing life of its own. … more
Health Dangers of Teflon
Bush Greenwatch – January 13, 2005 Group Charges EPA Ignoring Health Dangers of Teflon The release yesterday of an EPA draft risk assessment on PFOA — a toxic chemical contained in Teflon—has been sharply criticized by a leading environmental group, … more
Holistic Health
To have a sustainable community, there must be consciously-aware humans who desire a lifestyle that is conducive to supporting each other, as well as the environment in which we live. Our human-ness, our individuality, and our sense of purpose, have … more