news May 18, KentuckyOne kicked off monthly Walk With a Doc events at Iroquois Park with Mayor Greg Fischer and LaQuandra Nesbitt, MD, Louisville Metro director of Public Health and Wellness. Walk with a Doc is a nationwide program that works to empower patients to improve their health through physical activity, exercising side-by-side with their healthcare providers. Walkers have the opportunity to learn about important health topics, ask medical questions in an informal manner and receive free blood pressure screenings, refreshments and giveaways. To help make walking a habit, people who participate in at least three walk events receive a Walk With a Doc t-shirt. Walk With a Doc events will take place at 10 a.m. every second Saturday of the month at the Egg Lawn in Beckley Creek Park at The Parklands; every third Saturday of the month at Iroquois Park at the shelter near the Amphitheater; and every fourth Saturday of the month at Shawnee Park at the Southwestern Parkway entrance parking lot. ◆
products over many generations, showed increased fertility, improved stress resistance, and longevity over their conventionally fed contemporaries. Fruit flies do not know how to misrepresent themselves.
Board Member 2011-2015; and Vice President, Lexington Farmers Market. He is currently the Director for Sustainability of Farms and Families at Kentucky State University and the owner/ operator of a 375-acre Certified Organic Farm in Scott County, Kentucky.
Mac Stone has a BS in Agronomy and an MS in Animal Science from the University of Kentucky. He is the former Executive Director, Office of Marketing, KY Department of Agriculture; the Chair, National Organic Standards Board,
References: Brandt, M. (2012, September 3). News: Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods, Stanford study finds. Retrieved from Stanford School of Medicine: http://med.stanford.edu/ ism/2012/september/organic.html Organic Trade Association. (2012, September 4). Newsroom: Stanford research confirms health benefits driving consumers to organic. Retrieved from Organic Trade Association: http://www.organicnewsroom. com/2012/09/stanford_research_ confirms_hea.html
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The Truth About Organic Farming vegetables. UK, KSU, and Berea College all have certified organic farms, training the next generation of farmers to raise food the right way. The study itself has added some fuel to the fire of organic versus conventional production methods. Interestingly, the inaccurate, but attention-grabbing headline for the Stanford research study has generated even more follow up news reports. Virtually all of these, when properly established, do show a benefit to consuming organic foods, much less the greater environmental good. In many European countries, governments subsidize organic farmers since the citizens value the environmental benefits to their ecosystem. This begs the question, why do university scientists have to misrepresent the results to get some “airtime”? The New York Times recently reported a study out of Southern Methodist University. Fruit flies, feeding on organic Issue#78 31