cheeseslave »
30 January 2009 »
In Health & Nutrition »

ENTER TO WIN! Learn to cook healthier meals for your family! Click here to enter to win Real Food for Rookies, a new online class — retail value $120, plus over $60 worth of discount coupons. Don’t miss out! contest ends this SATURDAY Sept 4th at midnight Pacific. Everybody’s eating soy these days. Soy is [...]
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Tags: Health & Nutrition, hypothyroid, isoflavones, metabolism, obesity, packaged foods, processed foods, soy, soy milk, soy thyroid, soybean oil, thyroid, thyroid disease, weight gain
cheeseslave »
12 December 2008 »
In Uncategorized »

If you’re like me, you were disgusted by those high-fructose corn syrup commercials that came out a few months ago. I found some funny spoof ads on YouTube and thought you’d love a good laugh on a Friday afternoon. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did…
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Tags: ads, advertising, commercials, corn, corn refiners association, diabetes, food industry, hfcs, high fructose corn syrup, industrial corn, industrial food, king corn, movies, obesity, propaganda, sugar, sweet surprise, sweeteners, videos, youtube
cheeseslave »
09 September 2008 »
In Uncategorized »

(Click here to see the chart close up) Is fat consumption causing obesity? According to a recent article in the NY Times, The Overflowing American Dinner Plate by Bill Marsh, Americans are eating 59% more fat today than we did 30 years ago. Stephan (last name unknown), a doctoral candidate in neurobiology and author of [...]
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Tags: high fructose corn syrup, industrial food, obesity, vegetable oil
cheeseslave »
11 July 2008 »
In Uncategorized »

I’m reading a very interesting book called The End of Food by Paul Roberts. It’s a well-written and well-researched book about the history and future of food production. I was fascinated by some of these facts from food marketing executives and researchers: Food companies know exactly how much time the average household can devote to [...]
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Tags: books, cafos, corn, farmers markets, farms, grass-fed, health, high fructose corn syrup, obesity, pastured poultry, paul roberts, politics, processed food, soybeans, the end of food