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“EAT THIS?” Product Scanner Gives the Thumbs Up (or Down) on Specific Food Items in the Supermarket While “Shop to Lose” for the iPad Offers Portability, Sharability Continue reading
Waitrose Supermarket to Sell Only British Milk
Image from Waitrose Who could resist milk from a cow with a face like that? Certainly not Waitrose shoppers who will have the confidence of knowing that all the milk they buy is from British cows living on British dairy farms. Waitrose will be the first supermarket to stock their own 100% British dairy products, and customers will be able to trace its provenance from farm to fridge. This is great news for the cows and the British farmers and the environment. The cows are being raised in Continue reading
How to Make Nutritional Food Choices
Whether your goal is to maintain or lose weight, your fitness goals all hinge on making the best nutritional food decisions possible. This means you should shop in the outside aisles of your supermarket to find natural, unprocessed foods. For the most part, the foods down the center aisles will be processed foods that have been stripped of their natural nutrition. Your body will thank you for sticking to the foods in the outer aisles. If you really want to meet your fitness goals, you must kee Continue reading
Tactic: Youth fight for food justice online
Photo by Umoja Community Builders Background: Last month the US Department of Agriculture released a report on food deserts – areas in the United States where communities lack access to supermarkets and other outlets selling foods necessary for a healthy diet. According to the report, 2.3 million Americans live more than a mile from a supermarket and do not have access to a vehicle. The report goes on to say that the “urban core areas with limited food access are characterized by higher Continue reading
Are Food Labels Accurate as Regards Calories
You could be anywhere whether it be, a take-away food store or a supermarket and looking at a particular item, just to see how many calories it contains. When we are trying to lose weight this becomes quite an important decision. As to what we put in our shopping baskets for our weekly shop. So we always tend to take in good faith what is written on the particular label of said food product and probably don’t think any more about it. But exactly how accurate are they, we know that in o Continue reading
“Health Food” vs. Healthy Food — How to read labels
Do you know how to read food labels? Maybe you THOUGHT you did. Truth is, you probably don’t. But Jeff Novick of the Pritikin Center does, and in his full talk he shows the 3 easy steps you MUST know if you ever buy foods at any supermarket or “health” food store. In this online excerpt, Novick — who used to be a food service manager at Kraft Foods — exposes one of the dirty secrets major food corporations use to deceive consumers. It’s no accident labels are so confusing! High-protein/lo Continue reading
The Obscure Fountain Of Youth From Nutrition
by Karen LynchFor centuries, people have been searching for an mysterious therapy to something that happens to all of us – aging. Could it be that the fountain of youth has been with us all along?To bring to an end the standard declines linked with aging, one may have to look no further than the local supermarket, health food store or farmers market. Research now indicates that as much as 85% of all age-related illnesses can be avoided through excellent nutrition and a healthy diet. A vastly hea Continue reading
Revealed: The supermarket salads with more fat than a Big Mac
Those hoping to enjoy a summer salad as part of a healthy diet could be in for a shock. Continue reading
Peanut Butter Products: US Recalls, C-D
Updated February 21, 2009 Peanut Corporation of America supplied peanut butter to as many as 85 direct customers . Following is Part II (letters C-D) of the eFoodAlert list of US consumer product recalls of foods for human consumption. Unless otherwise indicated below, recalled products were distributed through supermarket grocery chains, warehouse chains, independent grocery stores, convenience stores, and other retail outlets. CAN DO KID CAN DO KID h Continue reading
The Real Facts about Organic Health Food
by KC Kudra You might have seen organic produce in the supermarket and noticed that it was more expensive than regular produce. What exactly is organic health food though and does it have a different taste? Would organic boneless chicken be worth paying more for than conventional boneless chicken? What is Organic Health Food? Organic produce is grown and processed differently. It will not have been exposed to conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, food additives, industrial waste, h Continue reading