Following pressure to offer healthier foods for kids – McDonald’s announced changes to its Happy Meal boxes, adding apple slices, reducing the serving of french fries, and offering reduced fat or reduced fat chocolate milk. However, are these changes really all that ‘health-conscious’?
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New Healthier Happy Meal for Kids
Monday, October 10th, 2011Why Buy Organic Now?
Friday, April 1st, 2011
The economy is terrible. We are all afraid to lose our jobs, our homes, our way of life. Many of us have given up our morning lattes, at least, or maybe took a vacation closer to home. One thing that we all tend to do when we’re worried about money? We compromise on what we eat. We don’t eat out as often: great! We watch our portions and don’t buy junk: fantastic! We buy leaner cuts of meat and give up organics: STOP RIGHT THERE!
An Apple A Day May Not Really Keep The Doctor Away
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Fruit and vegetables are our security blanket as a nation. We are told to eat such a large amount of fruit and vegetables per day. Loaded with vitamins and straight from mother nature. What else can you ask for?
The United States Department of Agriculture tells us that almost half of our food intake per day should be made up of fruits and vegetables (http://www.mypyramid.gov/pyramid/index.html).
But what all this hasn’t accounted for is the number of pesticides in our fruits and vegetables that could be not only killing the good effects of the fruit and vegetables, but killing us as well.
We could be poisoning ourselves. And its important to know that washing or peeling fruit may remove some of the pesticides, but not all. So how else can we protect ourselves? Continue reading “An Apple A Day May Not Really Keep The Doctor Away” »
FOOD KEEPS US ALIVE, FOOD CAN MAKE US SICK
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Did you know that 5,000 people a year die from tainted food? From everything from salmonella to e-coli, U.S. food is in danger because it goes unchecked at so many points. And foods that shouldn’t be causing us illnesses are being contaminated, leaving us a very small safety window. Read more hear: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no5/mead.htm and http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs237/en/
While the FDA runs around trying to catch up with what is contaminated, and a food safety bill sits stalled in the senate since July, we are left with dangerous foods.
It is almost impossible to keep track of food recalls today. When we worried about mad-cow disease, the whole world seemed to stop and take notice, the tomato scare, a little bit less, the peanut-butter thing, ehhh, what could it really do? It’s how we as a society react to real threats. Unfortunately, media decides how we truly feel about something. Sure, if you look deeply into any subject you will know so much more, but most of us get our information from the evening news, or maybe a newspaper, possibly on our computers during lunch-hour, and if our reporters aren’t covering it, you aren’t hearing it.
Here’s a true story: several years ago, there was a summer when all you heard about was shark attacks. Do you remember? Everyday, there was a shark being spotted here, a person being attacked here. We were suddenly at risk of sharks. Then, all of the sudden, they disappeared. Truth was, that the year before, there were actually way more shark attacks than the year it was covered in the news, but you never would have known it. Here’s why. It was simply a boring summer. There were no elections, race riots, no stars being arrested. Media still has to fill an hour of TV time. They still need to get you to read their paper instead of someone else’s. And the way to do it is fear. Oh my gosh, I might be attacked by a shark. I should buy that paper and read how I can protect myself.
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Is It Impossible To Lose Weight Without Being Hungry?
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
In order to lose weight you have to be hungry all the time, right? Actually, not at all. Though portion control can often cause bouts of hunger at certain times of the day, a steady, healthy diet will result in feeling full and losing weight. The key isn’t just counting calories and fat, it about choosing foods that will fill you up and fuel you longer. Continue reading “Is It Impossible To Lose Weight Without Being Hungry?” »