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Sugar can make you dumb, US scientists warn – Yahoo! News

Here’s a reason to avoid very surgary foods… Eating too much sugar can eat away at your brainpower, according to US scientists who published a study Tuesday showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup sapped lab rats’ memories. … Continue reading

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Martha Rosenberg: Processed Food: 9 Nasty Truths About The Meals You Eat PHOTOS

Wow All I can say is … yuck. Thanks to factory farming’s massive economies of scale, a lot of food today is disgusting or cruel or disgusting and cruel. Just when people stopped talking about cantaloupes with deadly listeria, “pink … Continue reading

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Some info on the whole Mad Cow situation

Here’s a great article outlining what’s going on in California. Here’s an interesting quote from Michael Pollen: [T]he identical industrial logic — protein is protein — led to the feeding of rendered cow parts back to cows, a practice the … Continue reading

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Boy, oh boy…

Yeah. Self inspection. I have my doubts.

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The K-E Diet: Brides-to-Be Using Feeding Tubes to Rapidly Shed Pounds – Yahoo!

All I can say is ‘Wow’ this is a very unhealthy diet… Brides-to-be looking to shed that final 10, 15 or 20 pounds in order to fit into their dream wedding gown have taken a controversial approach to crash dieting … Continue reading

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Got Propaganda? Why All of the Milk Industrys Health Claims Have Been Proven Wrong | Food | AlterNet

Well, here’s a neat article… Selling milk looks easy and even fun when you see the celebrity milk-mustache ads. “Got Milk?” ads may be the most recognizable and spoofed of all ad campaigns, yet they are probably also one of … Continue reading

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What Happens in Your Body When You Eat Ramen and Gatorade

Wow, all I can say is wow…  This is what happens when we eat foods that our bodies weren’t made to digest. Most of the time, we hear about avoiding processed foods because they’ll make us fat. But a new … Continue reading

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

I’m glad that I don’t drink much pop right now… 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 … Continue reading

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

Here’s a great reason to be active as long as you live… 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 … Continue reading

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Paula Deen Has Diabetes — Grub Street New York

Well, here’s a shocker… 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 … Continue reading

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