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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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Least Expensive Is Best, Right?
I can get this bacon on sale this week for 1.99 per pound. At my local meat processing locker I can get smoked sugar cured bacon for 6.49 per pound. I can get a fresh pork belly from the locker … Continue reading
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Tagged bacon, Contaminated meat, Food Safety, HIMP, local food, meat inspections, saving money, USDA
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Nina Weighs In
One of my favorite champions of natural fats in our diet, Nina Teicholz, author of one of my favorite books “The Big Fat Surprise,” has offered us her opinion of the new dietary guidelines from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Fat Surprise, carbohydrates, losing weight, Nina Teicholz, real food, sugar, USDA
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Too Old To Eat
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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Tagged Arctic Apples, FDA, frankenfoods, genetically modified foods, gmo, GMO crops, USDA
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“Caveat Emptor!”–Buyer Beware
Industrially produced sounds clean. In many people it evokes an image of sparkling, sanitized efficiency. Food producers, fearing extinction by litigation are going to every possible expense to deliver to the world the safe, healthy products that we demand, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Safety, industrial meat production, meat inspections, natural, tainted meats, USDA
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Throw It Out World
Did you ever wonder how much food got thrown away back in the day when you had to grow it yourself? If you had to toil away in your summer garden to make sure that you had enough food to … Continue reading
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Tagged Change for the Better, changing habits, Do it yourself, food additives, healthy eating, USDA, waist reduction, Waste reduction
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Pseudo-Science, Defined
There is science and the scientific method, and then there is pseudo-science. It can be difficult to tell the difference, but once you know about the scientific method it becomes much easier to tell them apart. From Wikipedia: The chief … Continue reading
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Tagged milk, milk is not good for you, milk is unhealthy, pseudoscience, science, scientific method, USDA
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Mardi GRAS
“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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Tagged FDA, Food Safety, Generally Recognized as Safe, GRAS, human trials, poison control, USDA
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Money, A Poor Measure of Value
I have said before that what something costs is rarely a good indication of what it is worth to the world. The ‘free’ market is a place where you can sell something like oil, that when used is forever lost, … Continue reading
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Tagged corn production, crop subsidies, surplus food, USDA, wasting energy
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The Science is Still Out!
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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Tagged breaking addictions, diabetes, fatty liver disease, FDA, food science, high blood Pressure, real food, science, sugar, USDA
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One Small Change at a Time 