Additives to Remove From Your Diet
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Here’s a handy list of items that need removing from your diet. Read labels carefully and enjoy the good health you’ll achieve.
1. Sodium nitrite
2. BHA & BHT
3. Propyl gallate
4. Monosodium glutamate
5. Trans fats
6. Aspartame
7. Acesulfame-K
8. Food colorings (Blue & , Red , Green , Yellow )
9. Olestra
10. Potassium bromate
11. White sugar
12. Sodium chloride – This [...]
Eat Local, Eat Better
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Eating locally is known to be better for our environment as well as our health and the local economy. The problem is finding those local co-ops, farmers markets and other resources. Well, look no further than the website Local Harvest. Here, you just type your city or zipcode into the search box and out comes [...]
How to Eat
Monday, March 30th, 2009Michael Pollan, author of the must read books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, was interviewed by Daniel DeNoon over at WebMD recently. He made a fantastic list of 7 rules for eating which I think everyone should follow. If you do, it is sure to improve your health dramatically.
The 7 rules are:
Don’t [...]
Pesticides in Your Fruit and Vegetables – When to Buy Organic
Thursday, March 12th, 2009As anyone who has ever been to one of my lectures can tell you, one of my favorite websites is the one for the Environmental Working Group. Well they just upped their usefullness by posting a listing of the fruits and vegetables with the highest and lowest levels of pesticides. If you print out the [...]
Organic and Locally Grown Food May Not be Humanities Answer
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Mother Jones is one of those cutting edge journalism magazines that uncovers truths in the world that are not so apparent. In a brilliantly written article by Paul Roberts, he makes the case that buying organic and locally grown foods while noble ideas, may not fix the food problems our world has. One quote from [...]
List of Problem Foods
Friday, January 23rd, 2009What foods are high in PCBs, hormones, and pesticides? Here is a link to a sitethat lists the 10 worst foods. As with any list of this kind, you need to weigh the risks and make your own decisions. Still the advice about avoiding non-organic strawberries (I don’t believe the stuff about feeding them NutraSweet [...]
Cholesterol Drugs for Children? You Must Be Kidding!
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008When I first read the article at MSNBC, I checked my calendar to see if somehow it was April Fools Day and some one was playing a very bad joke on me. If there was ever a sign that personal responsibilty, parental control, and medical idiocy all joined forces at the same time, this is [...]
Trans Fats – Ban the Garbage
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Trans fats are about the most health damaging thing you can ingest short of poison. While it is coming out of a lot of foods, because of labeling laws, manufacturers can list 0 grams of trans fats but still have it in the food as long as it is less than .5 grams per serving. I [...]
Food Additives – The Ones to Avoid
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Jean Weiss wrote an interesting article for MSN Health & Fitness about the 12 Food Additives to Avoid. Sage advice from Ms. Weiss. One of the issues Tasya, my daughter has had to deal with is her sensitivity to a number of food additives, especially aspartame (a real neurotoxic poison) and food dyes.
In many people, [...]
What do the Numbers on Your Fruits and Vegetables Mean?
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Yesterday, before I started juicing some veggies and fruits, I became a bit annoyed at those little stickers on the fruits. I noticed the numbers and wondered what they meant. Turns out there is a lot of information in those numbers. Here is a brief description of the numbers:
Conventionally grown fruits have four digits and [...]