References APRIL 2020

Growing Organic: Save Money, Reduce Toxins, Protect Your Health

• The Diet-Climate Connection: How the Foods We Eat Affect the Planet We Inhabit. HumanKind.org Programs.
• Neff, Roni. "Food Matters: How What We Eat Affects Our Health and the Health of the Planet." Imagine. (Jan/Feb 2009), 18-21.
• Healthy Eating, Healthy Planet. ReadWorks.org (2013). (great to use with children)
• Eat Green: Our Everyday Food Choices Affect Global Warming and the Environment. National Defense Resource Council.
• Rockefeller Foundation. Planetary Health: Improving Human Health by Healing the Planet. Planetary Health Summit Report. (2014). Accessed on 12 Feb 2020: http://www.visionariesunbound.com/events/advancing-health/planetary-health-report
• "Composting at Home" Accessed 12 Feb 2020: https://www.epa.gov/recycle/composting-home
• Alternative Insecticides for Yard and Garden: https://www.slc.gov/sustainability/pesticidefree/alternative-pesticides/

Why You Should be Eating More Onion

• Onion-usa.org. "Onion Health Research." Accessed 9 Feb 2020: https://www.onions-usa.org/all-about-onions/onion-health-research/
• National Onion Association. "Onions: Phytochemical and Health Properties." Accessed 10 Feb 2020: https://www.onions-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/phytochemical_brochure.pdf
• Onions Advanced Energy Recovery System. Accessed 11 Feb 2020: https://www.onions-usa.org/all-about-onions/onion-color-flavor-usage-guide/

Pizza! Pizza! Basil, Onion & Spinach Supreme

• Recipe adapted from Broma Bakery: https://bromabakery.com/caramelized-onion-mushroom-spinach-pizza/

Phenomenal Phytonutrients Benefit Health

• Davis, D. R. et al., "Changes in USDA Food Composition Data for 43 Garden Crops, 1950 to 1999." (2004) Jl American College of Nutrition, 23(6) 669–682. Accessed 13 Feb 2020: http://saveoursoils.com/userfiles/downloads/1351255687-Changes%20in%20USDA%20food%20composition%20data%20for%2043%20garden%20crops,%201950-1999.pdf
• Scheer, R. & Moss, D. "EarthTalk: Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?" Scientific American Online, (posted 27 April 2011). Accessed 13 Feb 2020" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/
• UCDavis.edu "Nutrition and Health Info Fact Sheet: Phytonutrients" Accessed 13 Feb 2020: https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8313.pdf
• Cao, J. "Phytonutrients are good for bone health." USDA Agricultural Research Service. Accessed 12 Feb 2020: https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/gfnd/gfhnrc/docs/news-2011/phytonutrients-are-good-for-bone-health
• Linus Pauling Micronutrient Information Center. "Phytochemicals." Accessed 13 Feb 2020: https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/dietary-factors/phytochemicals
• Thomasset, S. C. , Berry, D.P. et al. "Dietary polyphenolic phytochemicals-promising cancer chemopreventive agents in humans? A review of their clinical properties."(2007 Feb 1) Intl. J Cancer (120)3. Accessed 13 Feb 2020: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.22419
• Higdon, J. Blake, V.J. Evidence-Based Approach to Phytochemicals and Other Dietary Factors 2nd Ed. (2013) https://www.worldcat.org/title/evidence-based-approach-to-phytochemicals-and-other-dietary-factors/oclc/827467953

Sweet Basil: Beneficial for Health, Home, and Garden

• Baliga, M. S., et al. (2013). "Ocimum sanctum L (Holy Basil or Tulsi) and its phytochemicals in the prevention and treatment of cancer [Abstract]." Accessed 11 Feb 2020: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23682780
• Basil, raw. (2019). Accessed 11 Feb 2020: fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/342608/nutrients
• Li, H., et al. (2017). "Evaluation of the chemical composition, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of distillate and residue fractions of sweet basil essential oil." J of Food Sci Tech 54(7) 1882-1890 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495712/
• WorldsHealthiestFoods.com "Basil" Accessed 11 Feb 2020: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=85