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The Dirty Dozen – Wearing A Coat Of Pesticide
While there is some produce that isn’t very contaminated with pesticides, there are other kinds that are pretty well drenched with the stuff.
This is the other end of the spectrum, and if these aren’t organically grown, you’d best avoid these fruits and vegetables. These are listed with the [...]
Cracker Quirks
When you’re in the grocery store deciding what crackers to buy, there’s a few more little quirks to watch out for. Stuff that sounds like it would make crackers good health food is once again not all it’s cracked up to be.
One important quirk to look for is the kind of fat in crackers. [...]
Crackers with Fiber
While we’re looking for whole grains in crackers, it follows we ought to get fiber too.
Some crackers, like Kellogg’s All-Bran Multi-Grain Crackers, even make a big deal of the fiber by putting “5g FIBER” on the front of the box.
That sounds good compared to Finn Crisp Crackers, for example, because they only have 3 grams [...]
Whole Wheat Crackers
If you go to the store and buy a box of Ritz Whole Wheat Crackers, you’ve got real health food crackers made with all grain goodness, right?
Wrong! Remember, it has to say 100% Whole Wheat if you want whole grain. As it turns out, each 15-gram serving of crackers only has 5-grams of whole grain. [...]
Crackers Aren’t Always All They’re Cracked Up To Be
Used to be all you worried about with crackers was how much salt they had. If you picked a low-sodium or no-salt brand, you could feel pretty virtuous about eating healthier food.
Now, however, we’re looking for more whole grain foods and fiber, and eliminating the bad trans fats.
Once again, labels that are supposed to [...]
May The Farm Be With You!
I saw this “Grocery Star Wars” animation a long time ago and enjoyed it, and just ran across it again a few days ago. It’s a cute parody of Star Wars made to alert people to some of the serious problems in food production today - overuse of chemicals, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), and the [...]
Why Soy is NOT a Health Food
I was poking around on YouTube, and decided to do a search for health food videos just to see what might be there. Interestingly enough, the first one to pop up was entitled, “Why Soy is NOT a Health Food“, a subject I wrote about a while back.
This video touches on some things I’d mentioned, [...]