Most of the time, we hear about avoiding processed foods because they’ll make us fat. But a new video of what happens in your body when you eat Top Ramen and Gatorade vs. homemade noodles and drinks gives us a whole new reason to avoid it: We can’t even digest it properly.

via What Happens in Your Body When You Eat Ramen and Gatorade.

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oh and they have a video, here it is. I advise that you watch this video when you aren’t going to be eating anytime soon

Drinking diet soft drinks on a daily basis might increase the risk stroke, heart attack and vascular death, U.S. researchers said.Hannah Gardener and colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center in New York also found regular soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events.

via Diet soda linked to stroke, heart attack – UPI.com.

A new study called, “Chronic Exercise Preserves Lean Muscle Mass in Masters Athletes,” which you can read HERE graphically illustrates what happens to your muscles with and without the type of regular and beneficial exercise that the sport of triathlon provides.

via At 74-years old…these are your legs on triathlon & these are your legs without triathlon – EverymanTri.com.

Man, it’s freaky on what can happen to your body when you don’t move, now I want to go to the Gym!

And shes apparently been trying to keep it a secret — until now. So reports the Daily, which says Deen “is about to come clean and confess that she can’t eat her own dishes anymore because she has diabetes.”

via Paula Deen Has Diabetes — Grub Street New York.

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The Harvard School of Public Health sent a strong message to the United States Department of Agriculture USDA and nutrition experts everywhere with the recent release of its “Healthy Eating Plate” food guide.  The university was responding to the USDA’s new MyPlate guide for healthy eating, which replaced the outdated and misguided food pyramid.Harvard’s nutrition experts did not pull punches, declaring that the university’s food guide was based on sound nutrition research and more importantly, not influenced by food industry lobbyists.  The greatest evidence of its research focus is the absence of dairy products from the “Healthy Eating Plate” based on Harvard’s assessment that “…high intake can increase the risk of prostate cancer and possibly ovarian cancer.”  The Harvard experts also referred to the high levels of saturated fat in most dairy products and suggested that collards, bok choy, fortified soy milk, and baked beans are safer choices than dairy for obtaining calcium, as are high quality supplements.

via Harvard Declares Dairy NOT Part of a Healthy Diet | Care2 Healthy Living.

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I was just at the grocery store, standing in the check-out line, which has become a gauntlet of terror. It’s the magazines.

Today, it was Paula Deen, round-cheeked and grinning, teeth bleached white, eyes like cold blue LEDs, photoshopped into perfectly plasticky plump grandmotherliness — a grandma with the complexion of an irradiated sixteen year old, glowing and sparkling — and she was holding a bowl of livid yellow macaroni and cheese that was bigger than her head. And I said to myself, this is the new face of death. And I said to myself, this is the American face of death, the death of viscid excess, the death that ends not in bones, but a quivering mass of adipocere. And I said to myself, don’t piss yourself, Myers, but that’s goddamn terrifying.

via This is not my New Year’s resolution | Pharyngula.

Also posted on BethAnnerickson.com

There are a lot of good reasons to eliminate meat from your diet. Vegetarian diets are better for the environment, less carcinogenic, and result in better health outcomes for those that follow them. Any plant eater knows this, and the vegetarians I know happily stick to their diet regime without a second thought.

However, certain objections to ditching meat routinely come up. And most of them are junk. You could fill a book with all the non-sensical reasons I’ve heard over the years from people who are certain that being a vegetarian is a bad idea. Some are convinced you’ll be forced to deprive your body of certain nutrients, or that eating plants means subjecting yourself to a prolonged starvation.

via The 5 Biggest Myths About A Vegetarian Diet.

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Have a great day!

McDonald’s will be looking for a new source of eggs for many of its hugely popular Egg McMuffins.The fast food company says it “will no longer accept” eggs from one of the country’s biggest egg companies, Sparboe Farms, that is the subject of an ABC News investigation to be broadcast Friday on “20/20″ and “World News with Diane Sawyer” and was cited Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration for “significant…and serious violations” in the production of eggs.

via McDonald’s, Target Dump Egg Supplier After Investigation – ABC News.

A few weeks ago, I learned of a relatively new blog about food industry deception, but with an interesting twist. The blog’s author is Bruce Bradley, who spent over 15 years as a food marketer at companies like General Mills, Pillsbury, and Nabisco. He has since, in his words, “become more educated about the risks and environmental impact of eating processed foods,” and is now a CSA enthusiast.

via Confessions of a former Big Food executive | Grist.

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