Tag: organic eating

The Casualties From The Sellout Of Organic Groups To Anti-GMO Labeling Concerns Continues

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The Casualties From The Sellout Of Organic Groups To Anti-GMO Labeling Concerns Continues
GMO Labeling Sellouts And The Damage They’ve Caused: Organic Trade Association Grows Smaller Following Their Betrayal The dust has settled somewhat on Congress’ recently passed renewed DARK Act, the anti-anti-GMO labeling bill that was hastily, crudely crafted to overrule any state’s attempt to provide consumers easy access to information on genetically modified foods in their products. However, the fallout continues to take its toll on the Organic Trade Association as yet another manufacturer has quit in protest of the group selling out.… Read the rest

Feed Your Head: Here Are Some Great Foods That Will Help Activate Your Brai

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Feed Your Head: Here Are Some Great Foods That Will Help Activate Your Brai
Total Recall: Here Are Some Awesome Brain Foods That Will Get You Firing On All Cylinders Have you ever had one of those heavy lunches in the middle of the work day where, upon returning to the office you just never were able to get your head working right again? You felt logy, not in the best mood, and mentally dragged down–in sports terms you were a half step behind.… Read the rest

What Do Those Food Labels Mean Anyway: An Examination Of Words Like ‘Non-GMO,’ ‘Organic, and ‘Natural’

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What Do Those Food Labels Mean Anyway: An Examination Of Words Like ‘Non-GMO,’ ‘Organic, and ‘Natural’
‘Non-GMO, Organic and All-Natural:’ What On Earth Do Our Food Labels Mean Anyway? There’s no two ways around it: we live in a deceitful age. Blame politics, blame advertising, blame the internet–the truth is we can’t escape from a certain amount of flat-out bullshit in our lives. You could go so far as to say that if modern humans were fish, bullshit would be the medium we swim in.… 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

You Know What They Say About Doctors And Apples–Turns Out They Were Onto Something

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You Know What They Say About Doctors And Apples–Turns Out They Were Onto Something
An Apple A Day–How Humble Fruit May Aid In Heart Health Even More Than We Thought We all remember that nagging rhyme from when we were young and desperate for candy: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away…” Yes, I can practically hear my 10-year-old self saying, but what about chocolate? Does that keep anything away? Well, it turns out your mother was right about this one.… Read the rest