Category: Food/GMOs

Weight Loss Breakthrough May Start With The Brain: High-Fat/High-Sugar Diet Hacks The Brain

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Weight Loss Breakthrough May Start With The Brain: High-Fat/High-Sugar Diet Hacks The Brain
Why You Always Go Back For Seconds And Thirds: High-Fat/High-Sugar Diet Hacks The Brain There is a great character in the sci-fi comedy “Men in Black,” who appears to be a normal, little old man who runs a jewelry shop. Only later, after he is mortally wounded is it revealed that the man is but a bio-mechanical suit, being “driven” by a tiny alien operator whose cockpit is inside the human head.… Read the rest

Glyphosate Found In Numerous Products, Debate Heating Up Over Quaker Oats

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Glyphosate Found In Numerous Products, Debate Heating Up Over Quaker Oats
Latest Product Found To Contain Glyphosate Quaker Oats; Consumer Group Sues Over False ‘Natural’ Claims As more and more scrutiny gets paid to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, we’re jut starting to find out how pervasive it is. The chemical, found last year by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer to be a “probable carcinogen” has turned up in German beer, California wine, and now in Quaker Oats.… Read the rest

How Hungry Would You Have To Be To Eat Your Fork? New Edible Cutlery Could Well Eliminate The Need For The Plastic Kind

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How Hungry Would You Have To Be To Eat Your Fork? New Edible Cutlery Could Well Eliminate The Need For The Plastic Kind
Polystyrene In Plastic Cutlery Is Wasteful And Potentially Damaging–One Man’s Solution: Edible Silverware So you say you’re an environmentalist, huh? But are you committed, I mean really committed? You may feel like you need to be committed if you were to watch the video linked below with no context. As the man cheerfully takes a bite of his spoon, the first thing that might occur to you–especially if you’ve been to visit the dentist lately–is OUCH!… Read the rest

Monsanto In Conflict With Government Of Argentina Over Royalties Collected On Its GMO Seeds

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Monsanto In Conflict With Government Of Argentina Over Royalties Collected On Its GMO Seeds
Monsanto Shows Its True Colors: Demands Royalties On Second-Generation Seeds From Struggling Farmers In Argentina Don’t you just love that moment in a movie or television show when the shady guy, the sketchy one whom you have grown to love to hate over the course of the program finally is revealed to be the dirtbag he truly is for all to see?… Read the rest

The Land Of Fruit And Nuts–And Diabetes? California Diabetes Rate Through The Roof

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The Land Of Fruit And Nuts–And Diabetes? California Diabetes Rate Through The Roof
California Dreaming: Who Knew That Included Dreams Of Diabetes There are a lot of stock images that spring to mind when you think of California: surfing, beautiful blonde people, earthquakes. Hollywood, the Golden Gate bridge, perhaps. But one thing that doesn’t fit the usual clichéd rundown of all things California is diabetes. That, however, may be about to change. An alarming new study conducted at UCLA shows that nearly half of all Californians either have prediabetes, a precursor to type-2 diabetes, or they have an undiagnosed case of diabetes itself.… Read the rest

Ten Days Is All It Takes: Cutting Sugar In Kids’ Diets Can Have Dramatic, Rapid Results In Health Outcomes

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Ten Days Is All It Takes: Cutting Sugar In Kids’ Diets Can Have Dramatic, Rapid Results In Health Outcomes
Try It For Ten Days: Health Can Dramatically Improve In Kids By Cutting Sugar–And Results Are Almost Immediate. Even for adults it is sometimes difficult to sell ourselves on the benefits of improving our diets and exercise programs, simply because it takes so long to see tangible results. So it’s easy to see why it can be difficult to get kids to switch to healthier diets and exercise programs–what with their telescoped sense of time in which each hour is a day and each day is a week, time spent when kids can’t have what they want can be excruciating for them and their parents alike.… Read the rest

Some Attribute Rise In Sales Of Breakfast Cereals To Reduction In Artificial Colorings And Flavorings

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Some Attribute Rise In Sales Of Breakfast Cereals To Reduction In Artificial Colorings And Flavorings
Artificial Is So Fake, You Guys: Increase In Sales Of Breakfast Cereals Attributed In Part To Preference For More Natural Ingredients Oh, the carefree days of childhood. Who can forget Saturday mornings in the rec room, curled up in front of the massively radiation-spewing cathode-ray television, staring glassy-eyed at the colorful cartoon images dancing across the screen. And the only thing more colorful in the room–or in any room, or in nature for that matter–were the bowls of cereal we would wolf down one after another.… Read the rest

Dannon Yogurt To Go GMO Free By 2018; Eliminating GMO Feed From Milk Source Cows’ Feed

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Dannon Yogurt To Go GMO Free By 2018; Eliminating GMO Feed From Milk Source Cows’ Feed
Dannon The Latest Company To Announce It’s Going GMO-Free In The Wake Of Vermont Passage Of GMO Labeling Law Sometimes change is slow and incremental, and sometimes it comes down like a hammer on the unsuspecting. And although it usually seems like it’s the good changes that take forever to be implemented, that is not the case in the wake of Vermont’s recent passage of its first-in-the-nation GMO labeling law.… Read the rest

Farmers’ Group Sues USDA Over Who Should Be Able To Determine What Is Organic

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Farmers’ Group Sues USDA Over Who Should Be Able To Determine What Is Organic
Busted! Tom Vilsack and USDA Sued Over Appointing Ridiculously Underqualified Corporate Stooges To Organics Board. We’ve long known about the government/corporate revolving door, through which countless corporate shills procure themselves government appointments for a period of time, during which they oversee regulation of their areas of expertise. During these times of “service to their country,” these paragons of selflessness tweak and alter and change regulations as they apply to their former employers–interestingly and no doubt coincidentally, often in ways that benefit their former employers.… Read the rest

When Good Breakfasts Go Bad: Some Of The Worst Breakfast Foods You Should Avoid At All Costs

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When Good Breakfasts Go Bad: Some Of The Worst Breakfast Foods You Should Avoid At All Costs
Good Breakfast/Bad Breakfast: 4 Foods You Should Avoid In The Morning As we work more and more hours for less and less pay, usually the first casualty in terms of our health is our sleep. The second is often our diet. Making sure you get healthy, fresh food to eat costs money, and it takes time, two commodities that are exceedingly rare in this modern age of overwork and wage cuts.… Read the rest