Dietitians Pay Off for Supermarkets. Stephen Mally for The New York Times Dawn Blocklinger, a dietitian at a Hy-Vee grocery store in Moline, Ill., teaches customers how to choose healthy foods.
After several setbacks she had a chance conversation with the pharmacist at her local Hy-Vee grocery store here that changed everything. He referred her to the store’s dietitian, Dawn Blocklinger, and on a recent sunny morning, the two of them spent almost an hour compiling a list of the foods Mrs. Florence, 79, could eat and alternatives for the ones she couldn’t, like rye bread to replace wheat and Tofutti instead of . Then they went shopping. Hy-Vee is the only grocery chain in the country that posts a registered dietitian in almost every one of its 235 stores.
The supermarket subgroup now has more than 400 members and its numbers are rising, Ms. Kroger, which already has dietitians on staff, is adding more of them to its King Soopers chain in the West. Ms. Dangers of Food Additives and Preservatives. At the outset I want to say to you, "Eat no food that contains any chemical food additive. " To me the word 'additive' is a nasty or contemptible word and here is what Webster's Dictionary says: "Additive: a substance added to another in relatively small amounts to impart or improve desirable properties or suppress undesirable properties.
" Dangers of food additives and preservatives: Actually this tells an important story and should be a general warning to all that additives of any kind or for any reason could be dangerous. It is my sincere belief and conviction that additives are the greatest danger on earth to civilization and to life itself. Lest you think I am overacting or exaggerating I wish to assure you with all the rhetoric at my command that I really am being truthful and very, very realistic. Now a food additive is seldom if ever put into food for the consumer's benefit. Cereal used to mean a bowl of something like oatmeal or wheat flakes.
FDA and USDA Employees Admit: Corporate Interests Reduce Food Safety" If the circumstances that led to the massive egg recall this summer are a surprise or baffling to anyone, here's a quick glimpse of an explanation: one in four of government food scientists and inspectors have witnessed food industry interests force their agencies to withdraw or change policies that were supposed to protect consumers.
The one-in-four number is an estimate, based on a survey by the Union of Concerned Scientists of food safety employees at the FDA and USDA (the survey was sent to 8,000 employees; more than 1,700 responded). At least 38 percent also felt that this kind of corporate interference jeopardized or actively harmed public health. There are always secret deals and behind-closed-doors talks in politics, but it's scary when officials in charge of ensuring the safety of the entire country's food supply are so cognizant of the dangers, yet let industry run the show anyway. 10 Weird and Gross Ingredients in Processed Food. (images via wkrantz, high hopes gardens) Everyone now knows that processed and fast foods are not the bastions of nutrition, but that shouldn’t make these ingredients found inside them any less revolting inside or out of your home kitchen.
This list sends a clear message: when a packaged food contains more than five ingredients and includes some that are difficult to pronounce, stay away. Make a b-line straight to the organics aisle and go for vegan meals or vegetarian recipes instead. (images via vkeong, irmteam.com) Fertilizer in Subway Sandwich Rolls While chemical fertilizers inevitably make it into our produce in trace amounts, you would not expect it to be a common food additive. (images via nifty nuthouse, profumo.it, americanwildlife) Beaver Anal Glands in Raspberry Candy (images via high hopes gardens, dimbulb, wikipedia) Beef Fat in All Hostess Products (images via sweetrosie, food-info.net, understanding food additives) Crushed Bugs as Red Food Coloring Sheep Secretions in Bubble Gum.
Top Seven Strangest Food Additives.