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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- Do you have your affairs in order?
Let’s check out peanut butter as a case study. This discussion will talk about toxins found in peanuts, hidden trans fat in 0% trans fat foods, and healthy and unhealthy oils.
Peanut butter is great. It’s one of my favorite foods, but it’s a food I will only eat healthy versions of.
This first issue is toxins. Peanuts are known to be susceptible to aflatoxins, which are produced by various types of fungus in food and are linked to (more…)
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Tagged: cooking oil, fats, food, marketing, nutrition, organic, soy, toxins, western diet
