Archive for the ‘Science & Technology’ Category
“New” Diet Reduces Bodily Toxins in Just 5 Days
Call Now to Find Out How You Can Lose Your Toxins and Feel Great in Just 5 Days!
Just kidding. You don’t have to call, simply read on:
I don’t mean to proselytize, but a new study just demonstrated one of the powerful effects of changing to a vegetarian diet: significantly reduced bodily levels of harmful environmental [...]
June 11, 2010
Tags: change, food, food safety, Health, veganism, vegetarianism Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology 
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PSA – Wash Those Pre-Washed Salad Greens
Recent research from the Consumer Reports Magazine found that those bagged salad mixes, most claiming to be pre-washed and ready to eat, aren’t as clean as you’d like them to be. Thankfully, what they found wasn’t e coli, salmonella or anything as dreadful as that. Instead, in their sample of 208 bags (representing 16 brands) [...]
March 13, 2010
Tags: agriculture, education, factory farms, Health, heroes, waste Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology One Comment
Chestnuts and Wassailing, Blight and Good Old Fashioned Holiday Cheer
Okay, I’ll admit it. I actually like going to the mall at this time of the season. Even if I am not particularly interested in buying anything at the time, the holiday lights create a commercialized nostalgia that makes me all warm inside. And yes, I love Christmas music. I am the type of person [...]
November 14, 2009
Tags: agriculture, alcohol, food, food event Posted in: Science & Technology One Comment
Finally An Intelligent Move: RIP Smart Choices
After creating quite a stir in the foodie blogosphere, the mainstream media, and even riling up the lethargic FDA, the industry led Smart Choices label is voluntarily suspending the promotion of its program. Â They even had the Attorney General of Connecticut after them–Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that he was investigating the program and some [...]
October 26, 2009
Tags: blogs, change, education, FDA, Health, heroes, nutrition, policy Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology 3 Comments
The Man Who Fed The World
Dubbed the father of the green revolution, Norman Borlaug helped to create high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties around the world. He is attributed with saving over one billion lives from starvation worldwide. As just one example of the profound changes he made in agriculture, between 1965 and 1970 wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan [...]
October 2, 2009
Tags: agriculture, change, education, farmers, heroes, innovation, nutrition Posted in: Health, Science & Technology No Comments
Soda Taxes Part Two – The Industry Creates A Citizens Coalition
Does the potential revenue from soda taxes persuade anyone to give anyone a second thought?
Not a chance, says the group Americans Against Food Taxes. Â Americans Against Food Taxes is a “coalition of concerned citizens” that is strictly opposed to the sweetened beverage taxes. Â However, on more than cursory view, you find that it is actually [...]
September 30, 2009
Tags: Barack Obama, change, marketing, nutrition, obesity, policy, soda, sugar Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology No Comments
Naturally? Naturally. — The USDA To Work On What ‘Natural’ Means
Costello: Look, if I throw the ball to first base, somebody’s gotta get it. Now who has it?
Abbott: Naturally.
Costello: Who?
Abbott: Naturally.
Costello: Naturally?
Abbott: Naturally.
Costello: So I pick up the ball and I throw it to Naturally.
Abbott: No you don’t, you throw the ball to Who.
Costello: Naturally.
Abbott: That’s different.
Costello: That’s what I said.
The confusion and nonsensical back [...]
September 16, 2009
Tags: agriculture, farmers, marketing, USDA Posted in: Politics, Science & Technology No Comments
Food Fortification – Too Much Of A Good Thing?
A Short History of Fortification
The first widespread use of fortification was in the early 1900’s. Â In some areas of the United States, upwards of 60% of the population had enlarged thyroid glands, also known as goiters. Â In 1924 officials all over America began iodizing salt and within ten years goiters all but disappeared.
Just before World [...]
September 9, 2009
Tags: FDA, food, food safety, innovation, marketing, moms, nutrition, policy Posted in: Health, Science & Technology One Comment
“Smart Choices” A Dumb Move?
Diet Pepsi, Kraft’s macaroni & cheese, Kid Cuisine, Lunchables, and Froot Loops (now with added fiber!) are just some of the 500 processed foods getting the green “Smart Choices” label. “Smart Choices” is front-of-the-package labeling meant to help rushed or confused consumers pick healthy(er?) foods.
Sure, Diet Pepsi and Kraft’s macaroni and cheese are smart [...]
September 7, 2009
Tags: food event, Health, innovation, marketing, nutrition, obesity, pepsi, sugar Posted in: Health, Science & Technology 2 Comments
Food–In Space!
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s high time we celebrate what keeps astronauts going on those trips.
First of all, the one thing that should be celebrated in conjunction with food in space is that microgravity does not affect natural swallowing processes–something scientists were rightly worried about before John Glenn (the [...]
August 12, 2009
Tags: food event, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Science & Technology No Comments
