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Tagged as Food Additives

What Exactly Is Wrong With Commercial Beef?
Many of us are swayed by advertising. Commercials that show happy cows in a pasture, a package of beef that says “free-range” or “grass-fed”or “organically-raised”: it seems easy to make the right choices at the supermarket. We as consumers are convinced we know how to tell good food from bad food, best practices from worst practices, and healthy nutrition from the stuff that just mimics it. But is...
November 4, 2015
85 Ways MSG Can Make You Sick
Although neither government health agencies nor food manufacturers will tell you, monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a very unhealthy food additive.  In spite of such, it is obsessively used in most processed, frozen and fast foods. In fact, you will be hard-pressed to not find it in most foods consumed by people both in developed and developing countries. Why Is MSG Used So Extensively? - Simply put, MSG...
October 15, 2015
What's Inside The Package?
Before I go to the grocery store, I usually have a list of everything I need to purchase for the week. If I don't, my grocery bill will be double the amount I intended it to be. Why? - Because I will get sucked into purchasing grocery and household items based on their outer appearance. Marketplace grocery and household items are contained in very attractive packages. Take cheese for example. As soon...
June 4, 2015
Label Lessons for Healthy School Lunches
Packing healthy lunches for the kids can be downright stressful. How can you be sure that you are packing your kid's lunch box with foods that are both delicious AND nutritious? These days, food companies can be deliberately deceitful with misleading and seductive marketing. How do you know you're not just feeding your kids sugar, GMOs and chemicals dressed up in "natural" packaging? - Avoid the Scary...
May 12, 2015
You Are What You Eat Has Eaten
Does it make sense to you that if you eat a pound of fat, that some of that fat is going to incorporate itself into your body? It’s not a secret that most of our meat and poultry products are pumped full of growth inducing chemicals, including antibiotics that have been shown to induce increased growth in livestock. That is good for selling by the pound, but is it good for those who consume these super...
April 14, 2014