Snake oil in your snacks

Terrific post on The Ethical Nag by Carolyn Thomas

Here's an excerpt:

You know something is terribly wrong when the makers of Froot Loops (a breakfast cereal that’s almost 50% sugar by weight) are bragging about health benefits of the product’s added fibre. Why not just throw a couple of Tim Horton’s gooey maple dips at the kids every morning?

Is there snake oil in your
child's breakfast?

And it gets worse. Foods masquerading as drugs are the hot spot in the packaged-food business. The world’s biggest food companies are stuffing ostensibly beneficial bacteria, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins and other additives into packaged foods.According to a recent piece in Forbes magazine, these companies are even funding clinical research in order to justify health claims – often deliberately vague – that blur the line between nutrition and medicine.

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On the menu, but not on your plate - The Boston Globe

On the menu, but not on your plate - The Boston Globe

Want to Stay Lean & Mean as You Age: Reach for the Protein

This SuperMom-in-training isn't "buying" it.

You be the judge.  Is the article an infomercial from the dairy industry? 

Want to Stay Lean & Mean as You Age: Reach for the Protein

p.s. I found the comments far more telling and interesting than the pseudo industry science the writer is discussing.

We're not buying it? Marketing junk food to our children

Am I so old that I can remember the days when advertising cigarettes and liquor - on television - to adults - was banned?

Today, America (and her children) have never been fatter or sicker and it's so strange... we can't seem to figure out why.  Are we so addicted to highly processed, factory farmed, fake food products that we're letting the food and beverage industry control our lives?

Check out the video "We're not buying It" - Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids.

$5 Challenge, McMuffins, and the Cost of Food : Slow Food USA

$5 Challenge, McMuffins, and the Cost of Food : Slow Food USA

Steve Jobs - Inspiring

Inspirational

From our friends at Fooducate Blog (read entire post here: Fooducate)

From a commencement speech Jobs gave at Stanford a few years ago:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life…

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. 

I followed his advice. I decided to leave a cushy executive position to start Fooducate and change the way the world eats. It’s still too early to tell if we will succeed, but Steve Jobs inspired me to follow my passion and do the best to make it happen. And for that I am eternally grateful.

May he rest in peace.

-Hemi


(From our friends at Fooducate Blog - read entire post here: Fooducate)

What's on America's Plate? Food Day - October 24th

It's time to Eat Real, America! The most important ingredient is you!

Join the millions of us who want 

real food... 

for real families.... 

from real farms.... 

real fast!

http://www.foodday.org/

Interesting debate - Would you go to an MD who took $$ from Tobacco companies?

A Dietitian Reflects on the Recent Nutrition Conference

Interesting debate in the comment section of this post on Fooducate:

Would you go to an MD who took $$ from Tobacco companies? 

Big food is no different than tobacco.

Three Reasons to Rethink that Diet Coke You’re About to Drink - From Fooducate

Excerpt from Fooducate -

Hmmmm....does diet coke really prevent heart disease?

Care for some water? No way, get me a Diet Coke, or a Coke Zero.

Water is for washing hands, not drinking. And regular soft drinks and juice are full of sugars and calories.

So you decided a long time ago to go with artificial sweeteners. After a while, you didn’t even notice the slightly different taste compared to sugar sweetened beverages. And, diet drinks are zero calories. Win-win. Both taste buds AND body are happy. A no-brainer, right?

Not so fast.

Entire post at Fooducate - Three reasons to Rethink that Diet Coke You're About to Drink

Best diet to lower your cholesterol

Best diet to lower your cholesterol