Posts Tagged ‘food’
WARNING! Do Not Read This If You Have Ever Eaten A Fast Food Burger
Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat. If you’re in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to make into hamburgers.
Simple Little Trick To Tell If Your Food Is Genetically Modified
As reported by Maria Gallagher, in the June 26, 2002 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, by reading the PLU code, you can tell if the fruit was genetically modified, organically grown or produced with chemical fertilizers, fungicides, or herbicides.
Body Scans of a 250 lbs. Woman vs. a 120 lbs Woman
Obesity is a disease that affects approximately 60 million people in the United States, where women are especially affected. Over one-third of women between the ages of 20 and 74 are obese, the majority of them being African American or Mexican American. With more and more pre-packaged food and less and less activity, the number of obese people in America has steadily increased since the 1960’s.
State Run Food Programs Don’t Allow Organic Products
Written By: Toril Fisher The State of Michigan along with many other states, does not allow WIC mothers to purchase any organic products. See WIC Card here. The Woman, Infant and Children Supplemental Food Program (WIC) is set up to help safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age five who are at nutritional risks by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating and referrals to healthcare. This is one of the most successful government feeding programs with many notable successes.
Concern Over Canned Foods: Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Soups, Juice, And Tuna
The chemical Bisphenol A, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because of potential health effects. The Food and Drug Administration will soon decide what it considers a safe level of exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), which some studies have linked to reproductive abnormalities and a heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease.
Study shows Vitamin D reduces cancer risk by 60% – if you take 3 times the FDA’s recommended dose.
Most Americans and others are not taking enough vitamin D, a fact that may put them at significant risk for developing cancer, according to a landmark study conducted by Creighton University School of Medicine. The four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska.* Participants taking calcium, as well as a quantity of vitamin D3 nearly three times the U.S. government’s Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) for middle-age adults, showed a dramatic 60 percent or greater reduction in cancer risk than women who did not get the vitamin.
4 Ways To Avoid The “Holiday Weight Gain” Just In Time For Thanksgiving and Christmas
One of the toughest times of the year for those trying to lose weight is the holiday season. Most people will gain between 5 and 7 pounds from Thanksgiving to New Years. While the holidays are a time to rejoice, celebrate and share fond memories, it also a time for eating, eating and more eating. Wherever you go, whatever you do, food always seems to be the central focus. Cookies, chocolates, fruit cake, eggnog, holiday breads and a myriad of other ‘goodies’ can been seen in the kitchen, on the coffee table, at the office, grocery store, friend’s house… even your chiropractor’s office! How can you try to maintain your weight and heart-health during such a tempting time? I’ve come up with 4-steps to surviving the holiday hoop-la that is sure-fire success – this season and in the future ones to come.
The Formula For Health and Sickness
Written By: Dr. Wegmann Poor health is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not become unhealthy, overweight or sick overnight. Poor health is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, poor health is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every week. (i.e. fast food, ice cream, doughnuts, etc.) Now why would someone make an error in judgment and then be so foolish as to repeat it every week? The answer is because he or she does not think that it matters.
