Caity McCardell

I think I have a condition!

I “think” because it’s not clear if it’s bad or not. If it’s bad, then I don’t have it. If it’s good, then I have it. Ha!

Completely stolen from Wikipedia:

“Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa is a term coined by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, to denote an eating disorder [...]

I picked up my latest issue of Ode Magazine today – for “Intelligent Optomists,” which really has me craving my weekly pedophile update, dog attacks, celebrity gossip and other real news from The Week or SFGate.

I skipped to a piece about the brain, about how people with mental disorders of any spectrum suffer from [...]

Bibi, my 15-year-old niece said that Colin will grow up to be a skateboarding, vegan teen with long brown hair, and all the girls will swoon, thinking he’s the sexiest thing around. Which makes my niece very cool because she knows that being vegan is, really, sexy.

(BTW, I’m trusting that when my son is a [...]

Recently an adult friend in the community asked if she could buy the kids some salt water taffy. It was very conscientious letting us know what’s in the candy, making sure I was OK with them eating it, etc. She ended up getting some other candy in addition to the taffy – candy that was [...]

According to numerous sources, such as the Guardian, the UN urges a global move to meat and dairy-free diet. “Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says.

“As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for [...]

I just finished a three-part series of classes through eCornell (Cornell University’s online courses) called Plant-Based Nutrition. Every step of the way I found information that I knew, information that inspired me, information that I’ll never forget.

One of the sections of the current class that ends today was about food production, specifically the extremely [...]