Federal food safety regulation a slippery slope Part II- Small Local Farmers vs Large Agribusiness
One Size Fits all Regulation More centralized power for food safety may sound great in a world where I can buy a food item with 100 ingredients, grown in 100 separate counties, states, and countries and that has been process in 100 different counties, states and countries. But what if I want to buy an [...]
Read PostWhy Federal food safety regulation is a slippery slope: Part I- Safe Food vs. Healthy Food
The senate is trying to push through a bill that would increase the power of the FDA to be able to control food that is grown by farmers. This food safety bill is in response to multiple food recalls on beef, eggs, and even spinach. If you have seen news on any of these recalls [...]
Read PostHow much does marketing influence our health
A recent study about teens believing sports drinks are healthy really got me thinking. How much are our food choices made because of clever marketing, especially marketing that would make us falsely believe something is healthy. And we are no different from teens. It is surprising how much we take food companies word for it. [...]
Read PostWhatever You Focus on Expands
As I continued to scour the news and research last week I found myself overwhelmed by the amount of negative news I saw about prescription medications. I was highlighting many of the articles I found on twitter and when I looked back over the week I was surprised to see all the negative articles about prescription meds. [...]
Read PostPrescription Fish Oil?
Matt walks in my office today and asks “Did you see the new commercial for the prescription fish oil.” I had been on this companies website recently but until he came in I had forgotten all about it. Our conversation got me thinking about the concept of a prescription fish oil. For me it is a fairly [...]
Read Post“De-Condense” Condensed Soups
I’m going through a stage in my life where eating on the go, or on a budget, it fairly common. While it doesn’t necessarily have to be impossible to eat healthy during times like this, it can be tricky! More than once, I’ve found myself rummaging through the pantry and cupboards, looking for something to [...]
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Click the play button above to listen online. Right click “download” and click “Save Target As to save to your desktop. Click the play button above to listen online. Right click “download” and click “Save Target As to save to your desktop. Episode #26, November 19, 2009 Last weeks challenge: Evaluate Where Your Health [...]
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This Podcast talks about food additives, artificial coloring, and how that might affect our health.
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Click the play button above to listen online. Right click “download” and click “Save Target As to save to your desktop. Episode #24, October 28, 2009 Show Notes Last Weeks’ challenge: How much processed oil do we eat? Once again we’ve stripped almost all the nutrients out and through the processing have created some toxins. [...]
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In this interesting Podcast Joe will provide plenty of information on fast food, where it comes from and facts about deep fried foods.
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Click the play button above to listen online. Right click “download” and click “Save Target As to save to your desktop. Episode #14, August 19th, 2009 Show Notes Click the play button above to listen online. Right click “download” and click “Save Target As to save to your desktop. Episode #22, October 21, 2009 Show [...]
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Click the play button above to listen online. Right click “download” and click “Save Target As to save to your desktop. Episode #14, August 19th, 2009 Show Notes Episode #21, October 20, 2009 Show Notes Main Topic Joe talks about an interesting mix of politics and food Food processing is convenient and cheap Additional Material: [...]
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Joe and Kathy provide you with valuable information on nutrients and food we eat. It appears that a lot of nutrients are removed due to processing and addition of synthetic materials
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In this PodCast Joe talks about sugars, obesity and heart diseases. It appears that people in America consume large amounts of sugars. A lot of sugars come from drinking soda.
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