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30 January 2009 »
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Everybody’s eating soy these days. Soy is a not good for you for many reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that soy depresses thyroid function.
Soy products increase the risk of thyroid disease. Source
For adults, just 30 mg of soy isoflavones per day is the amount found to have a negative impact on thyroid function. [...]
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Tags: Health & Nutrition, hypothyroid, isoflavones, metabolism, obesity, packaged foods, processed foods, soy, soy milk, soybean oil, thyroid, thyroid disease, weight gain
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12 December 2008 »
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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
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09 September 2008 »
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(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 the Whole Health [...]
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Tags: high fructose corn syrup, industrial food, obesity, vegetable oil
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11 July 2008 »
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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 cooking — [...]
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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