By Lisa Baertlein and Charles Abbott (Reuters) – The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus. The scuttled changes, which would have stripped pizza’s status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served, stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on schools to improve the nutritional quality of lunches served to almost 32 million U.S. school children. The action [...]
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Soda and Aggression?
Soda and Aggression? Are your teenagers getting out of control? What do you do? Who do you blame? Yourself? Violent video games? How about the culprit that is hiding in your fridge! Before you point fingers at anyone or anything, I want you to consider how much soda your teenager drinks. A new study shows that high school kids who drink more than 5 cans of soft drinks per week are 15% more likely to act violently when compared to their non-soda drinking counterparts. The study included over 1,800 students. [...]
Continue ReadingWhy Genetically Modified Crops Can Devastate Health
Why Genetically Modified Crops Can Devastate Health 1. GM crops fail to deliver promised benefits. The consistent finding from independent research and on-farm surveys since 1999 is that GM crops have failed to deliver the promised benefits of significantly increasing yields or reducing herbicide and pesticide use. GM crops have cost the United States an estimated $12 billion in farm subsidies, lost sales and product recalls due to transgenic contamination. Massive failures in Bt cotton of up to 100% were reported in India. Biotech corporations have suffered rapid decline since [...]
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How do You Know . . . If Your Food is Genetically Modified? by Dr. Joseph Mercola with Rachael Droege When polled only about one-quarter of Americans report having eaten genetically modified food. However, if you randomly pick an item off your grocery store’s shelves, you have a 70% chance of picking a food with genetically modified (GM) ingredients. This is because at least 7 out of every 10 items have been genetically modified. If more Americans were aware of this fact, the polls would certainly turn out differently, but [...]
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Seven Dangers of Common Beef and Better Alternatives Beef has been a mainstay in the traditional American diet – however, this beginning to changing now that mad cow disease as well as many other contaminants have been identified in commercial American beef. Many people are waking up, realizing that eating commercial beef is now most definitely a potential risk to their health and well being. Americans eat more meat than any other nation in the world, with the typical American eating over 60 pounds of beef a year. However, the [...]
Continue ReadingFive “Health Foods” to Avoid
Five “Health Foods” to Avoid This morning, if you ate what you considered to be a healthy breakfast such as wheat toast, orange juice, eggs cooked in vegetable oil and a glass of store-bought milk, you’ve just eaten 4 of the following 5 so-called “health” foods that should definitely be avoided. With so many new health claims in the news, you may be confused about what truly is healthy, not to mention the old, traditional claims that are just plain wrong but are so engrained in our society that they’re [...]
Continue ReadingRaw Food — One of Your Keys to Outstanding Health
Raw Food — One of Your Keys to Outstanding Health A kitchen is nothing else than a chemical laboratory producing millions of completely new chemical substances that basically never existed in the wild and if, then very occasionally by accident. Cooking will randomly produce millions of different sugar and protein combinations commonly called Maillard molecules. Throughout the biggest part of our evolutionary history, the one before processing, human beings have never ingested the amount of Maillard molecules we ingest today. The recent introduction of dairy products and grains has equally [...]
Continue ReadingBEHOLD! The Power of Cheese !
BEHOLD! The Power of Cheese ! By Robert Cohen, author of MILK – The Deadly Poison, (201-871-5871), http://www.notmilk.com The American Dairy Association has a new marketing campaign that may one day replace their successful milk mustache campaign. The Dairy Education Board welcomes the opportunity to reveal the secret powers of concentrated milk. How Much Cheese Do Americans Eat? In 1970, the dairy industry produced 2.2 billion pounds of cheese. The population of the United States was 203 million, which translates to 10.8 pounds of cheese per person. By 1990, America’s [...]
Continue ReadingMaking Better Choices When Eating Out
Making Better Choices When Eating Out Fresh Foods. When choosing a restaurant, ask if they prepare most of their food from scratch (as opposed to using pre-made foods). Using whole fresh ingredients made from scratch has greater food value and helps to avoid the many food chemicals and preservatives found in canned or boxed pre-made foods. Avoid restaurants that sell irradiated food. Irradiation of food produces carcinogenic chemical byproducts. Food Oils. Ask your waiter what kinds of oils are used in the food. Avoid eating food which contains margarine (as [...]
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