Linda Bonvie

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Linda Bonvie is an author and journalist specializing in food, environmental and health-related topics who has co-authored dozens of articles for major newspapers and magazines. For the last three years she has worked as a blogger and editor at foodidentitytheft.com, a website sponsored by Citizens for Health. She also blogs at food-fit.org and Chemical-Free Kids, where she updates the issues covered in two book she co-authored, Chemical-Free Kids (2003) and Chemical-Free Kids: The Organic Sequel (2008). <facebook.com/chemicalfreekids>. Most of her spare time is devoted to working as a volunteer with an animal rescue group at the New Jersey shore.

Latest Posts by Linda Bonvie

Frozen Pops, a Health Food?

Ice pops, popularized under the brand name Popsicles, may be one of the few frozen sweets that most folks outgrow, essentially leaving the sugary and colorful frozen confections to kids. While the kid-level love of ice pops has never melted
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The dandelion: weed or super-food?

“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don’t need us and kind of
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The sweet taste (and nutrition) of springtime onions

Peeling an onion and munching it like an apple might seem a tad tough on the pallet — and on the breath as well. But not if the onion you’re eating is one of America’s famed sweet onions, made famous
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Mulberries: An amazing superfood with folk-medicine-legend status

For most folks, their first contact with the mulberry came via a child’s rhyme. However, mulberry trees, not bushes, have long been a serious player on the folk medicine and natural nutrition fronts, along with a mainstay of the Far
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National Walking Day designed to get us all ‘on our feet’ – and keep us there

Should your boss or the principal of your school suddenly announce over the intercom today, “Okay, everybody, take a hike!” you might think it was his or her idea of an April fool’s gag. But not if you know the
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