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...perfect dinner party. Its goal is not to turn the kids into mini Martha Stewarts. Instead, it aims to get kids involved and excited about the possibilities of sharing a meal. "We felt that youngsters had lost the connection to food," says Jordan, who founded Spoons Across America, a nonprofit organization that teaches kids about cooking and nutrition. "Part of that was because their families had lost the connection to food--in particular, the connection to sitting and having conversations at the table...
...Moreover, grass-finished meat is higher than grain-finished meat in vitamin A and vitamin E, two antioxidants thought to boost resistance to disease. "Grass-fed meat is beef with benefits," says nutritionist Kate Clancy, author of a recent Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) report. UCS, a Washington-based nonprofit, reviewed scores of studies and concluded that a change from grain-based feedlots back to a purely pasture-based system "would be better for the environment, animals and humans...
...food companies continue to offer dessert lines with flavors such as vanilla custard pudding and peach cobbler, loaded with sugar and starch. Early exposure to intensely sweet foods has long-term consequences, says Amy Lanou, a senior nutrition scientist for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington-based nonprofit. "When we're really young, our taste buds are especially attuned to sweet flavors. If you're offered bananas and berries at an early age, that level of sweetness will satisfy. But if you're given concentrated sweets, a taste for those intense sweets will follow you for the rest...
Since his resignation from the Corporation, Harper says he continues to be involved in several nonprofit organizations, sitting on the boards of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Philosophy Society...
...Senior Tutor Judy Goroff helped to secure Bakshi’s release.Bakshi says that his experiences in Zimbabwe have been “terrifying but fabulous.” He’s interviewed opposition figures as well as officials of the ruling regime. And he has founded a nonprofit organization, Aina Arts, which promotes local art forms in “marginalized communities,” currently both in Zimbabwe and in India.Aina’s workshops in Mussoorie, India, where the program links local artists with schools, inspired a similar project here at Harvard, according to Doris...