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A friend sent this link to me and it is absolutely worth re-posting. I will say it just one more time: If we stopped pay­ing farm­ers to grow corn with our tax money, they would grow some­thing much bet­ter than corn. Any­thing would be bet­ter for that mat­ter. Okay, well maybe not Soy either. No soy and no corn would be bet­ter. I will stop now.

The Real Rea­son Why Poor Peo­ple Are Fat

Warn­ing: The sec­ond pic­ture in the post is going to catch you by surprise.

I recently read the results of a study that was con­ducted to deter­mine the pos­si­ble health effects of the com­mon every day food dye referred to as Red #40. Like so many of the count­less reports pro­duced to scare us into some type of mass pho­bia about the foods we eat, this one is no dif­fer­ent. This study, in which rats were fed a diet con­sist­ing of up to 10% Red 40 for two weeks, concluded

Red-40 sig­nif­i­cantly reduced repro­duc­tive suc­cess, parental and off­spring weight, brain weight, sur­vival, and female vagi­nal patency devel­op­ment. Behav­iorally, R40 pro­duced sub­stan­tially decreased run­ning wheel activ­ity, and slightly increased post­wean­ing open-field rear­ing activ­ity. Over­all, R40 pro­duced evi­dence of both phys­i­cal and behav­ioral tox­i­c­ity in devel­op­ing rats at doses of up to 10% of the diet.

Once again it seems we are fed infor­ma­tion from a half baked study from some fly by night orga­ni­za­tion called the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, in an effort to scare us. We have been eat­ing this stuff for years. For that mat­ter I am sure many peo­ple con­sume more than the pre­scribed 10% noted in the study with rats. I have per­son­ally been con­sum­ing foods with things like red 40 since I was a kid and I am still breath­ing.  Big deal, so what if it is red. Besides I am not a rat!

That, was the old me talk­ing. The “me” that existed less than a decade ago. The one that often let reports about things like food dyes, go in one ear and con­tinue reading…

There is so much good info in this movie. Corn is in every­thing and it is genet­i­cally mod­i­fied to boot! If there were two movies I could give to every­one for free, this would be one of them. Food, Inc. would be the other. This DVD is avail­able through the “Stuff We Like” page. Rent it, buy it, just make sure you do get the chance to see it.

This was a very rel­e­vant ques­tion wor­thy of a post all by itself. It is also very rel­e­vant as I will be post­ing some­thing related about sub­si­dized crops later this week­end.  In short, gov­ern­ment sub­si­dies for corn, soy, and wheat make it pos­si­ble for com­pa­nies to pro­duce foods, with lots of chem­i­cally com­plex ingre­di­ents, that are cheaper to buy than foods that actu­ally are ingre­di­ents. How sad is that? Check back soon for that post.

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“Hey Jeff I think this is great. I don’t know how you put it all together. I’d really like our fam­ily to get a start on this. I know it will be hard. Please keep it up. I do have a ques­tion. What is your gro­cery bill like for a week. I know for us the bet­ter you try to eat the more it costs.“
–Thanks Heather

Heather – I am excited to hear you are ready for some fam­ily wide changes. What a great way to raise the next gen­er­a­tion so they don’t think twice about the choice between a pop tart or a banana when they are adults.

The gro­cery bill ques­tion is one that we get a lot from par­ents and a valid one to ask. con­tinue reading…

A friend sent this link to me about a 14 year study demon­strat­ing  a link to pan­cre­atic can­cer and soft drinks. While it would be easy for me to jump on the band­wagon as an ex-soft drink junkie (we are the worst), and it would be easy for me to say “I told you so!” I can­not in good con­scious do that here.

D0 soft drinks cause pan­cre­atic cancer?

While the data seems pretty con­vinc­ing, the study also sites four other stud­ies done pre­vi­ously that did not show a link. The per­cent­ages also seem oddly high to me, enough that it makes me ques­tion the data and its accu­racy. con­tinue reading…