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Save Yourself
I often hear people say that the reason they eat processed foods is that it’s all they can afford to eat. Ninety eight cents for a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese sounds like a good deal, hard to beat … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, eating healthy, Eating Right, healthy eating, inexpensive food, saving money, savings
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How To Read A Label
By far, the best way to look at a package of food in your local grocery is in another shopper’s cart. Going down every aisle is an exercise in futility. Trying to decide which highly-processed artificial food is healthier than … Continue reading
GRAS
Someone should be paying attention. You sort of just assume that someone is watching what goes into our foods. Artificial ingredients perform lots of different duties in your processed foods, they would be inedible without them, but are they safe? … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, FDA, Food Safety, GRAS, low carb, low carbohydrate diet, Melanie Warner, USDA
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I Was So Misled
For most of my life, right up until I started reading “Why We Get Fat” by Gary Taubes, I believed like most people that a person had to eat fruit and vegetables in order to stay healthy. Now that I … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, carbohydrate, eating healthy, gary taubes, how to lose weight, processed food, real food
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Who Doesn’t Like “-Free Food”
The first hazard sign is right there on the label. If the food has a health claim on the label, if it is sugar-free, gluten-free, fat-free then it is something you should be avoiding. A food that has had a … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, mindfulness, natural food, Pandora's Lunchbox, The Food Babe
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What Progress Looks Like
If you are like me, changing your diet away from the typical Western Diet that is high in carbohydrates, artificial ingredients, and sugar and low in fat and natural nutrients you are looking for signs that you are on the … Continue reading
Whereas….therefore
Today I will make up a New Year’s Resolution Template™ for some easy-to-keep promises for 2015. I thought that I would make these resolutions in the legislative, Robert’s Rules of Order style. I will include a Whereas for each resolution, for the … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, artificial ingredients, butter, coconut butter, grass fed, lard, low fat, New Year's Resolutions, omega 3, processed foods, Resolutions, saturated fats, sugar, sugar-free
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Heartbreaking
I am a middle aged man, and I work in a shop of intelligent middle aged men. None of us are really that close to retirement age, the average age in the shop is probably fifty five. Nobody in the … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, butter, carbohydrates, carbs, lard, processed foods, saturated fats, serum cholesterol, statin drugs, sugar, unsaturated fats
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Don’t Clean Your Plate
If you eat out in the US, you should probably start training yourself immediately to ignore Mom’s advice from days of old to ‘clean your plate’. If you eat everything they bring you, not only will you be uncomfortable for … Continue reading
Artificial Ingredients Kill Pets
According to this article on Salon.com, there are things you can eat, in normal doses that you should make sure that your pets don’t get into. One thing that will cause problems is related to the topics we discuss here in … Continue reading
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Tagged animal trials, artificial ingredients, artificial sweetener, food science, human trials, xylitol
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