Entries tagged as ‘obesity’

Killing you?
Stop eating processed garbage carbs.
I hate to be the one to tell you if you this, but bread is not a health food.
Back in the day, say 150 years ago, bread used to always be a great, healthy, nutrient-dense food. There wasn’t white and wheat bread; there was just bread. It was unprocessed and made from whole grains. More on our unprocessed past from Mark Bittman.
Why is processing stupid? (more…)
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Tagged: balanced meals, food, food industry, fungus and parasites, high fructose corn syrup, low carb diets, nutrition, obesity, processed foods, sugar, weight gain, western diet

We are losing the battle for nutrition (Photo from the National Obesity Forum, UK)
Food corporations are screwing us.
We can’t achieve perfect health, and I’m really not recommending you become so scrupulous with your diet that your quality of life is diminished in any way. People have immune and detoxification systems for a reason; we can handle a lot of the garbage that gets thrown our way. People live long, fulfilling and often extremely health lives while eating tons of garbage they shouldn’t.
So why should you care? (more…)
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Tagged: agriculture, children, diabetes, fats, food, food industry, high fructose corn syrup, marketing, meat, obesity, toxins, western diet

What makes Homer Homer?
High fructose corn syrup is the number 1 source of calories in the American diet.
Today I have a BIG ANGRY RANT to start this off, leave some comments after reading.
Is high fructose corn syrup worse than sugar? Corn production in America is terrible for the environment, uses genetically modified corn, and receives insane amounts of money from the federal government in the form of subsidies. These are all issues worthy of getting seriously pissed about. (more…)
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Tagged: balanced meals, diabetes, food, food industry, fungus and parasites, high fructose corn syrup, insulin, low carb diets, nutrition, obesity, sugar, weight gain, western diet