In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Do we really know what is on our supermarket shelves
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Eat Junk and Go Hungry
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Dr Pia Martin
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Good Morning,
David Kessler is the former commisioner for the FDA... he is a medical doctor, lawyer and former dean of a medical school... A smart man to say the least. I encourage you to take the time to read the whole article and share it with your friends.
Have a healthy day!
Dr Pia
Kessler was on a mission to understand a problem that has vexed him since childhood: why he
can't resist certain foods.
His resulting theory, described in his new book, "The End of Overeating," is startling. Foods high in fat, salt and sugar alter the brain's chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat. "Much of the scientific research around overeating has been physiology -- what's going on in our body," he said. "The real question is what's going on in our brain."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042602711.html
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Dr James Chestnut
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
In A Grim Economy Americans are finding comfort in candy
Sunday, March 8, 2009
"Let Food Be Thy Medicine" Hippocrates
"You are what what you eats eats too"
cattle that fatten on feedlots rather than grass cut up to 75% of the time it takes from birth to slaughter. They are fed corn that is nourished on by petroleum based fertilizers. A beef cow consumes almost a barrel of oil in its lifetime. This article has much more to say about agriculture and our farming industry...more on this articleI can't agree with Hippocrates more... think of food as functional nutrition ...
