No fruit in Fruit by the Foot? General Mills sued over snacks [Updated] – latimes.com

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

Like we didn’t see this one coming…

There’s not much fruit in General Mills snacks such as Fruit Roll-Ups, Fruit by the Foot and Fruit Gushers, alleges a new suit against the giant food company.

via No fruit in Fruit by the Foot? General Mills sued over snacks [Updated] – latimes.com.

Click the link above to read the entire article.

This is yet another reason to give your kid *real* fruit, not candy, even candy that says that it has fruit in it, because it probably doesn’t have any, or if it does, it’s very low on the list.

In the end, it’s best to feed yourself, and your children real foods, not candy. (Though you can treat yourself from time to time. :) )

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Food Ark – Potato Variety – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

There are a lot of different types of potatoes out there in the world, and some of them are stranger than others…  Here’s a neat article on those different potatoes!

Unlike the handful of varieties in U.S. markets, potatoes in Peru and Bolivia—the species’ geographic center of origin—come in thousands of colors and shapes. They are so varied in flavor and nutrition that a whole diet can be built around them.

via Food Ark – Potato Variety – Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine.

As usual, click the link to see the whole article, names of the potatoes, and pictures of them too.  You’ll be amazed by the variety of different ones out there. :)

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Tainted seafood reaching U.S., experts say – Health – Food safety – msnbc.com

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

Blech…. here’s another reason to not eat seafood… also just a FYI, most meat products have at least some of this going on.

Filthy seafood infected with bacteria or tainted with drugs and antibiotics banned in the U.S. is finding its way onto the plates of Americans, according to state and federal officials, consumer advocates, academics and food safety experts.

via Tainted seafood reaching U.S., experts say – Health – Food safety – msnbc.com.

This article tells me that you need to know where your food is coming from, many countries don’t have laws on how you can get, move, or save your food from spoiling.  In most of these countries chemicals that are known to cause cancer, and which are banned in the US, are used on most any food products to keep insects off, keep the product from rotting, and other reasons.

In the end it’s always best to be careful on where you get your food from, home-grown is usually better (also it’s better for the economy :) ) and usually fruits and vegetables are healthier than meat/dairy products, as there will be lower levels of any chemicals, which will usually be easier to wash off.

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Global Food Disparity: A Photo Diary

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Beth Ann Erickson

Wow. Quite an interesting photo essay. Click here to check ‘er out.

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10 Everyday Foods Made With Disgusting Ingredients: Pics, Videos, Links, News

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

Here’s a neat article… these foods don’t seem as tasty once you know some of their ingredients…

10 Everyday Foods Made With Disgusting Ingredients

In the end of the day, I think that I’m not in the mood to eat any of these.

Have a good day. :)

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The cocktail of up to 20 chemicals in a glass of milk | Mail Online

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

Here’s a reason to not drink milk…

A glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, scientists have shown.Using a highly sensitive test, they found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.The doses of drugs were far too small to have an effect on anyone drinking them, but the results highlight how man-made chemicals are now found throughout the food chain.

via The cocktail of up to 20 chemicals in a glass of milk | Mail Online.

Dairy isn’t good for your body, milk, cheeze, yogurt, and other dairy products may be strong in calcium, but they have even more protien.  Our bodies don’t need that much protien, so they try to get rid of it, and the main method of getting rid of the excess protien, is to use calcium to neutralise it.  There isn’t enough calcium in the milk itself to do this job, so the calcium is taken from our bones to fix this problem.

So, there are two reasons to not drink dairy.

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Generation Fat: Kids as young as 10 getting heart disease | thetelegraph.com.au

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

Here’s yet another reason to teach your children to eat healthy foods.

Dr Matt Sabin, co-head of the Royal Children’s Hospital weight management clinic, said Victoria’s obesity epidemic was becoming extreme.Dr Sabin said he often saw three-year-olds weighing 35kg – more than double their healthy weight – and 15-year-olds tipping the scales at up to 200kg.”We’re not talking about a little bit of extra weight, we’re talking about severely obese children,” Dr Sabin said.”It is getting worse – the numbers are not getting higher but the degree of obesity is getting worse.”

via Generation Fat: Kids as young as 10 getting heart disease | thetelegraph.com.au.

When 10 year olds are risking heart disease, teenagers getting heart attacks…  people really need to start looking at what they’re eating.  If you eat unhealthy foods, you will be unhealthy.  In my opinion most fast food resturaunts should be used only when there is nothing healthier available.  Fast food has so much fat that it’s difficult to believe that it’s taken so long for things to get so bad, and a good number of people eat at these places three times a day, some people may even go there more than that…

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Dangerous conditions in fast food resturaunt playgrounds

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

Here’s another reason to be careful around fast food restaurants…

As you can see in that video, some of those play-pens are not cleaned often, some of them may have never been cleaned.

To read the entire story click here.

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How Dirty is the Dirty Dozen? – latimes.com

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

You want to be careful with where your food is coming from.

Topping the “Dirty Dozen” for 2011 are apples, celery and strawberries. Data for the list came from produce sampled between 2000 and 2009 from both domestic and imported sources and from around the country. Though the amounts of pesticides are well below established limits, analysts with the Environmental Working Group, who compiled the list, say they’re too high.

via How Dirty is the Dirty Dozen? – latimes.com.

Some countries don’t have any laws on how much pesticide, or what types of pesticide can be used on fruits and veggies.  If possible, buy local food, as we have more control on what can be put on the food before it’s shipped to the market.  You should also wash any food before you cook or eat it, and possibly peel some of it, to get the pesticides off of the food.

In the end, you should just be careful with your food.

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Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story – Andrew Winston – Harvard Business Review

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Peder Maurice Erickson

A neat article about how much carbon dioxide is made by our food…

In recent years, one part of the food business has rivaled organics as the hot growth area: “local” food defined vaguely as coming from the same state or from less than 100 miles away, for example. It’s a market segment that has just about doubled in sales and number of outlets over the last decade. The world’s biggest food buyer, Wal-Mart, jumped on the bandwagon last fall and announced that it would double the amount of local food it sells to 9 percent of all its food sales.The idea of buying locally is not new, and farmers’ markets have been big for years. It’s become almost gospel that the food on our plates has traveled about 1500 miles to get to us.

via Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story – Andrew Winston – Harvard Business Review.

Only 11% of the carbon dioxide made in food production is made from the transportation, most of the rest is made from the massive amounts of animals breathing… and releasing other gasses… :)

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