That Sugar Film

...d foods, yogurt and granola bars. Of course, all of these highly processed foods are made palatable with copious amounts of sugar. It’s the well documented Snackwell cookie syndrome: large food corporations have removed fat and replaced it with sugar to better keep us addicted to their products. During the course of the film we watch Gameau’s health decline precipitously. A disclaimer: personally, when it comes to documentaries, I prefer a vérité...

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043 Growing Vegetables with Yvonne Savio

...isode of the podcast we pick her brain about: Why you should grow your own food. Favorite vegetables. How to harvest vegetables. How to prepare a vegetable garden. Making compost. The problems with municipal compost. Raised beds vs. growing in the ground. Where to buy soil. Testing soil. How to irrigate vegetables in a drought. Buried buckets for watering vegetables. Seeds vs. seedlings. Succession planting. How to plant seedlings. The website and...

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046 Caring for Older Cats

...al disease Oxifresh oral hygene The dietary needs of older cats Dry or wet food? Obesity Arthritis Kidney disease Water Hyperthyroidism avmi.net Grooming Step stools Checking your cat’s teeth and gums Feeding times Urinating outside the litter box Integrating older and younger cats Heating pads for older cats If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can sub...

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The Wonder of Worms

...tuation. I do know that you can’t really use too much when it comes to any food-bearing plant. Generally we don’t have truckloads of worm castings at our disposal, but what we have, we should use generously. Of course, common sense must prevail. The cactus and succulent families don’t have much use for rich castings, nor do plants of arid regions. Trees and shrubs wouldn’t mind them, but hopefully they’ve got their own worm populations going on in...

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