Tag Archives: FDA

Supplement, Schmuplement

Posted on April 4, 2015 by dcarmack

Guess what, if you take a really great natural nutrient and then process the plant or animal from which it came to get rid of every other component of that plant or animal, what you are left with is not the … Continue reading →

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GRAS

Posted on March 6, 2015 by dcarmack

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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Too Old To Eat

Posted on February 14, 2015 by dcarmack

I have done it both ways. I have cut an apple and eaten part of it and when I got back to it the exposed flesh had browned and, because it looked unappealing, I discarded a mostly-fresh apple. Alternatively, I … Continue reading →

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Trust, But Verify

Posted on February 12, 2015 by dcarmack

How can you know that when you put a gallon of gasoline in your car that you are really getting as much as you are paying for? There is a division of your state government that randomly checks the pumps … Continue reading →

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What? Me Worry?

Posted on January 29, 2015 by dcarmack

I am doing everything I can, and I am doing it the easy way–I don’t eat industrial meats or processed foods. Today there is an Op-Ed piece at CNN.com raising the author’s concerns about the rising level of allowable herbicide and … Continue reading →

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Mardi GRAS

Posted on November 11, 2014 by dcarmack

“Safe” is one of those words. It means different things in different contexts. You are driving down the interstate highway at seventy-five miles per hour. You feel safe, even though you are doing one of the most dangerous things, statistically, … Continue reading →

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The Science is Still Out!

Posted on October 31, 2014 by dcarmack

When writing about scientific progress, one of history’s greatest physicists, Max Planck wrote in 1950, “An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, … Continue reading →

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Modern Day Alchemy

Posted on October 30, 2014 by dcarmack

It is possible to turn trash into treasure. Consider the case of Coca Cola’s Vitamin Waters. According vitaminwater’s website, the Power -C flavor of vitaminwater delivers “zinc and vitamin C to power your immune system”; while the XXX offers “antioxidant vitamins to help fight free … Continue reading →

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Live Long, And Prosper

Posted on October 25, 2014 by dcarmack

A quick recommendation from me for a wonderful book. This book is full of information about the artificial ingredients in our American processed foods. You will find details about the FDA approval process, the industry that makes it’s living dreaming … Continue reading →

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Data Points

Posted on July 31, 2014 by dcarmack

If you go to this website, http://beefretail.org/wholesalepriceupdate.aspx, you can see that one year ago beef was about 30 percent cheaper than it is this week. About a 25 to 30 percent increase in every cut of beef in one year. We … Continue reading →

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