Researchers examining Egyptian mummies discovered that our predecessors 3,500 years ago also suffered from hardened arteries, and they didn’t eat fast food. As The Wall Street Journal reports:
[Researchers] were able to identify the hearts, arteries or both in 16 of the mummies, nine of whom had deposits of calcification…
“Not only do we have atherosclerosis [artery [...]
More regulations, more businesses hurt, more items off the shelves…looks like gov’t is trying to take over the entire food industry, too.
FDA to Examine the Safety of Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages
On Nov. 13, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent letters notifying nearly 30 manufacturers of caffeinated alcoholic beverages that it intends to look into [...]
Gov’t decides we should have more folic acid forced down our throats because studies say “hey look, folic acid prevents birth defects“. (Based on nothing more than in-the-gov’t-pocket so-called “researchers and medical pro’s).
Now, time proves this was more harmful than good (we’re not really surprised now, are we?)
Serious concerns include getting too much of this [...]
America’s Faulty Food Supply System
The U.S. system of food safety is convoluted. The responsibility is divided up between 12 agencies – and none of the 12 are held completely accountable.
The big players on the federal food and drug safety scene are the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. The FDA oversees [...]
Food writer Michael Pollan typically counsels readers to make their food decisions based on politics as opposed to what their bodies actually need. But math, unlike science, is more black-and-white. In a New York Times op-ed today, Pollan engages in some addition trickery as part of his attack on the way we eat.
Pollan claims obesity costs [...]
There’s a campaign running in NY with an image of fat pouring out of a beverage bottle with the question, ‘Are you pouring on the pounds’? This ad cost around $277,000.00. All that money during times of high unemployment to tell us what we should or should not drink…sorry but we take the stand that [...]
There is a lawsuit against hot dog makers and the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s has a lawsuit against the restaurant chain Denny’s.
Here’s what the editorial board had to say about these “fringe food lawsuits”:
A New Jersey lawsuit demanding cigarette-pack-type warnings on hot dogs is mainly a crank case by a veganism advocacy [...]
A new study explored whether the availability of different types of food retailers around people’s homes was associated with obesity among adults.
The results seemed to say that food eaten away from home, especially fast-food, is associated with weight gain and the “obesity epidemic“. The claim is that greater availability of fast-food restaurants has led to [...]
This is probably one of the wildest things I’ve heard yet – and we do hear a lot of them lately, don’t we!
Here’s the scoop: A Maryland Blogger reports that at a late dinner in a restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the diners ordered a piece of banana pie for dessert. Apparently this was [...]
