Tag: healthy food

Watching Out For ‘Halo Foods:’ What Healthy-Sounding Buzz Words Actually Mean–And That They Don’t

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Watching Out For ‘Halo Foods:’ What Healthy-Sounding Buzz Words Actually Mean–And That They Don’t
Food And The ‘Halo’ Effect: Here’s What Those Healthy-Sounding Terms Actually Mean–You Might Be Surprised In the wake of the genetically modified food labeling debacle of a few months ago, perhaps it is time to identify other food labeling terms manufacturers use to create a health “halo effect” and trick consumers into thinking they are eating healthy. Sometimes there is truth in labeling, sometimes it is cruel sham, like the Senate bill that was hastily constructed as a fig leaf for big food manufacturers and agrichem businesses who want to be able to sell the public GMO-containing food that we have repeatedly demonstrated we don’t want.… Read the rest

Lies, Damn Lies And Labels: How The FDA Screws Up Even The Definition Of ‘Healthy’

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Lies, Damn Lies And Labels: How The FDA Screws Up Even The Definition Of ‘Healthy’
The FDA And ‘Healthy’ Food: How An Avocado Is Less ‘Healthy’ Than Frosted Flakes The labeling law brouhaha over Vermont’s efforts to inform its citizens whether they were eating genetically modified food, and therefore food that is routinely heavily treated with chemicals, herbicides and pesticides has ended for now. With Congressional slaves to the big food industry falling in line to instead enact a joke of a labeling law that does more to hide what is in our food and supercedes laws like Vermont’s Americans now know even less than we did before about what we are eating.… 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