Tag Archive | Health
Are You Eating Wood?
Some animals, particularly ruminants and termites, can digest cellulose with the help ofsymbiotic micro-organisms that live in their guts. Humans can digest cellulose to some extent,however it mainly acts as a hydrophilic bulking agent for feces and is often referred to as “dietary fiber”. I USED to buy Nutri Grain. I won’t be anymore and will be discouraging others from doing so. We aren’t termites. […]
Cooking Thought: November 16th 2012
Today is National Fast Food Day I’m not convinced that this is something that should be celebrated… Here’s some facts: Most restaurants do offer some healthful and lower-calorie choices on their regular and children’s menus, but unhealthy options are the default. Just 12 of 3,039 possible kids’ meal combinations met nutrition criteria for preschoolers; 15 met […]
Cooking Thought: August 9th 2012
If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food. -Sally Edwards
Cooking Thought: August 2nd 2012
“Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.” ― John H. Tobe
1 in 6
1 in 6 Americans are hungry. Yes, I know I’ve stated this fact before but Americans are difficult people to get through to sometimes. 1 in 6 Americans are hungry. 1 in 6 Americans are hungry. Do you understand me? 1 in 6 Americans are hungry. 1 in 6 Americans are HUNGRY! As part of my work […]
Cooking Thought: May 9th 2012
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it. ~Edward Koch
Cooking Thought: May 4th 2012
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. -Mother Teresa
Nutritional Eating in the Age of Food Fabrication Pt. 2
I think I have been walking around in a fog of obliviousness until recently, simply taking the word of advertisers regarding the things they’re touting as “healthy” or “good for you” or even a “healthy alternative”. I, like I think so many do, simply went about my day seeing these ads on television, in magazines, […]
Nutritional Eating in the Age of Food Fabrication Pt. 1
In the past year, D and I have been educating ourselves on the foods we’re eating and the way in which they have been grown, processed and manufactured. This has led to many frustrations as we’ve discovered that much of the foods we consume in this country have been “altered” in one way or another. […]
Cooking Thought: March 29th 2012
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. -Andrew Weil
Cooking Thought: March 22nd 2012
Today is World Water Day! There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we […]
Cooking Thought: March 14th 2012
Hamburgers are made in huge factories. – One ordinary hamburger can encompass pieces of beef from a variety of cattle from many different areas. This multiplies the risk of contamination being that just one unhealthy cow in the group can have a major effect on making hundreds of people ill in distant regions of the […]
Cooking Thought: March 10th 2012
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -John Cage
Food Pyramids and You
My intention when deciding to write about the new food pyramid was to educate on changes in the governments view of the “daily essentials” and servings suggested for our diets. What I have discovered in my research is that the food pyramid really is a very antiquated idea, regardless of the “new” pyramid submitted to us […]
