Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. The 6 Most Horrifying Lies The Food Industry is Feeding You. #3. Fake Berries Imagine a blueberry muffin. GettyOne muffin, you greedy bastards. Even with your freshly gained knowledge that there may or may not be some cellulose in the cake mix, it's pretty impossible not to start salivating at the thought. This is largely because of the berries themselves. What's better -- they're so very, very healthy that it's almost wrong for them to taste so good. GettyWe could taste delicious if we wanted to. Everything is better with blueberries -- that's why they put them in so many foods. The Horror: ... not that it would do any good, as the number of blueberries you've eaten within the last year that have actually come from such a field is likely pretty close to zero. GettyWe can almost hear the muffins mocking us.
Studies of products that supposedly contain blueberries indicate that many of them didn't originate in nature. They do a damn good job of faking it, too -- you need a chemist's set of your own to be able to call bullshit. Kelloggs Find The BestDick. The 6 Most Horrifying Lies The Food Industry is Feeding You. If there's one thing in the world the food industry is dead set against, it's allowing you to actually maintain some level of control over what you eat. See, they have this whole warehouse full of whatever they bought last week when they were drunk that they need to get rid of -- and they will do so by feeding it all to you.
And it doesn't matter how many pesky "lists of ingredients" and consumer protections stand between you and them. #6. The Secret Ingredient: Wood You know what's awesome? "But Cracked," you inquire, "what does this have to do with food ingredients? " GettyFor the purposes of this article, you're kind of an idiot.
And we look at you squarely in the eye, then slowly bring our gaze upon the half-eaten bagel in your hand. Oh, shit ... The Horror: What do they do with all the cellulose wood pulp? GettyThe best part of waking up, is wood pulp in your face! And everybody's doing it. Schuym1Et tu, Hot Pockets? But the worst thing about cellulose is not that it's everywhere. . #5. . #4. Rural Migration News. The US Bureau of Labor Statistic's Consumer Expenditure Survey reported 121 million "consumer units" in 2010. They had an average of 2.5 persons, 1.3 earners and 1.9 vehicles; 66 percent were homeowners, and the average age of the reference person was 49. Average consumer unit income before taxes was $62,500 and average annual expenditures $48,100 (www.bls.gov/cex).
These expenditures included $6,100 for food (almost 13 percent of expenditures). Food spending was split 59-41 percent, including $3,600 for food eaten at home ($69 a week) and $2,500 for food bought away from home ($48 a week). The cost of food away from home largely reflects convenience, service, atmosphere and other factors not related to food costs. A rule of thumb is that food costs are about 35 percent of the cost of sales in cafeteria-style restaurants, 30 percent in fast food, and 25 percent in fine dining. The largest food-at-home expenditures were for meat and poultry, an average $785 or $15 a week.
Readers Journal-archive. Peak Oil and Soil (Eric Andrews, August 1, 2007) We’re discussing the value of soil especially in the context of Peak Oil, the devil is in the details. There are two parts to this: First is that readers may not realize the gravity of the situation concerning food and Peak Oil. There is a wing of the Peak Oil argument that statistically demonstrates how food presently can be said to be a form of oil.
Numbers run as high as 10 calories of oil per calorie of food, which with 2,000 mile Caesar salads from California and 10,000 mile apples from New Zealand, is not hard to believe. In fact, there is less than a week’s supply of food in the entire food chain, while consumers—in contrast to America before 1960--hold less than a week’s worth of food at home. The “Green Revolution”, which ended the famines of the 70’s, could arguably be said to be a result of eating oil. As a gardener from old-time farming country, however, I can provide another perspective. But suppose this part cannot be helped. Michael Pollan on "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual"
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. MICHAEL POLLAN: The way we eat has changed more in the last fifty years than in the previous 10,000. The modern supermarket has, on average, 47,000 products. The industry doesn’t want you to know the truth about what you’re eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it. ERIC SCHLOSSER: We’ve never had food companies this powerful in our history. UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1: Everything we’ve done in modern agriculture is to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 2: If you can grow a chicken in forty-nine days, why would you want one you’ve got to grow in three months? MICHAEL POLLAN: When you go through the supermarket, there is an illusion of diversity. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Sometimes you look at a vegetable and say, “OK, well, we can get two hamburgers for the same price.” MICHAEL POLLAN: They have managed to make it against the law to criticize their products. UNIDENTIFIED MAN 2: Smells like money to me! Nutrition facts, calories in food, labels, nutritional informati. 'Dirty dozen' produce carries more pesticide residue, group says. Environmental group says "Dirty Dozen" of produce contains 47 to 67 pesticides per servingGovernment says consuming pesticides in low amounts is not harmfulStudies have found association between pesticides and health problems Is enough being done to protect us from chemicals that could harm us?
Watch "Toxic America," a special two-night investigative report with Sanjay Gupta, M.D., June 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. (CNN) -- If you're eating non-organic celery today, you may be ingesting 67 pesticides with it, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group. The group, a nonprofit focused on public health, scoured nearly 100,000 produce pesticide reports from the U.S. Most alarming are the fruits and vegetables dubbed the "Dirty Dozen," which contain 47 to 67 pesticides per serving. "It's critical people know what they are consuming," the Environmental Working Group's Amy Rosenthal said. Special report: Toxic America The Dirty Dozen Celery Peaches Strawberries Apples Nectarines.
Can you really eat your way to happiness? The mood food connecti. (NaturalNews) Yes, you really can eat your way to happiness, but perhaps not in the way you might first imagine. By "happiness," I mean lasting happiness, not the fleeting kind of sensory happiness that might be experienced from sucking the cream filling out of a twinkie. And that's the distinction that really matters here: When I talk about happiness, I'm talking about sustainable happiness, not a brief moment of spurious excitement that soon reverses itself and leads to depression. You see, a lot of people try to eat their way to happiness by eating the "instant joy" foods like ice cream, donuts, cookies and yes, even twinkies. Sugar can, indeed, make us momentarily uplifted because this refined molecule temporarily boosts blood sugar and actively alters brain chemistry.
But like any drug, the depression after it wears off is far worse than the brief happiness it appeared to give us. This downward cycle of sugar dependence leads us to long-term obesity, diabetes and depression.
A Month Without Monsanto? Health Wire Posted by Jimmy Mengel - Friday, April 2nd, 2010 Have you ever tried to give up something for an entire month? The offending product is usually a vice — like drinking or smoking — and avoiding it is pretty cut and dried. The rules weren't quite so crystal clear for April Davila, who has just finished a month-long crusade against genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The ubiquity of GM ingredients was already weighing on Davila, a Los Angeles-based writer. But the final straw was a chilling report from the International Journal of Biological Sciences that linked GM corn to organ failure in rats. She thought, Hey, maybe I shouldn't be eating this stuff — and I certainly shouldn't be giving it to my two-year-old! That's when she decided to take on a mighty challenge: a month-long moratorium on resident GMO bogeyman Monsanto. Davila chronicled her journey daily on her blog, A Month Without Monsanto.
"Stick to organic foods... " Davila thought. Turns out, very. Indeed it does. Be Well, Dr. Gabor Maté: "When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress.