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...acre farm in middle of South Central Los Angeles - the area south of downtown that rappers mention when they want to sound tough. The seemingly endless gardens are farmed by 350 poor people, each of whom have a plot where they make dinners from the corn, bananas, guava, cactus, mulberries, avocado and sugar cane they grow. It is one of the most surreal things I've ever seen, and I was at Time Warner when AOL bought it. But the gardens are also not the weirdest thing...
...thing about Hannah is that, for a woman who's been sleeping in a tree for almost two weeks, she doesn't smell. She attributes part of that to the flowers and herbs in the Aztec ceremony, but also because she takes a jury-rigged cold shower in the corn fields every few days. The one eventuality I am certain of in all of this is that we are less than a year away from a Daryl Hannah reality show...
...many kids still start their mornings at the service of Captain Crunch. To interest children in healthy cereal without subjecting them to the pebble-like texture of Grape Nuts, consider the new instant organic oatmeal produced by Country Choice, called Fit Kids. It doesn't have high fructose corn syrup or a lot of the artificial ingredients that fill other kids' cereals, and it has plenty of fiber, calcium and iron. Another quick and healthy option for breakfast: a simple five-ingredient smoothie, made with bananas, milk, peanut butter, honey and ice. It's both cheaper and healthier than most...
...store and prepare them. Meanwhile, she says, she's got more local problems to solve--like what to do with all that leftover canned fruit and vegetables. A 6-lb. 10-oz. can of peaches costs just 13¢, but two of the four main ingredients are corn syrup and sugar. Cooper would rather pay 18¢ for one piece of fresh fruit and consider it an investment in the future...
Avoid foods containing high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). It's not just in cereals and soft drinks but also in ketchup and bologna, baked goods, soups and salad dressings. Though HFCS was not part of the human diet until 1975, each of us now consumes more than 40 lbs. a year, some 200 calories a day. Is HFCS any worse for you than sugar? Probably not, but by avoiding it you'll avoid thousands of empty calories and perhaps even more important, cut out highly processed foods--the ones that contain the most sugar, fat and salt. Besides, what chef...