Health Eating, Healthy Junk Food?

It seems that everyday  another report is published on America’s unhealthy eating habits. Some days its the soda tax, other times its GMOs and of interest to me today is the corporate response to obesity.

The reality is this: processed food and drink are linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes and other health ailments. When the vast majority of products at the store are sold in a box, bag or can, the store and producer are faced with a significant challenge. Do we continue the production of these products and face the consequences? Or do we modify the product and sell “healthy” junk food?
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Tags: FDA, Food Politics, Nutrition, subsidies
Posted on March 17th, 2010 by jared | No Comments »

Serving Size Matters

I’ve never been one to count calories. In fact, I’ve always been critical of those who do. It seems like the ones who count are the ones eating bad food. Though, truth be told, I’ve also been thin most of my life and the weight-gaining issue has not been of much concern. That said, I’m at a point in my life where I consume so little processed foods that I don’t know where to find the numbers. And that’s my main critique – if you eat food that has no label (i.e. whole foods) – you don’t have to focus on the caloric intake.

But my world is not the real world.
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Tags: diet, FDA, food literacy
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by jared | 1 Comment »

Death to Canned Foods?!

The hidden cost of convenience strikes again! As I have come to realize, all forms of convenience come at a deep and widespread cost. Plastic, the modern day “metal” may be highly resourceful but is very dangerous to our health and our planet. The general environmental concerns with plastic – requiring petroleum to produce and rarely being biodegradable – are just the tip of the iceberg. Though, as a blog concerned with food and its corrupted industries, let’s focus on the ‘nutritional’ implications of plastic. Specifically, I want to discuss the latest controversy in food safety, the breakthrough study that found measurable levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) in 19 common food containers.
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Tags: FDA, Food Politics, food safety, Nutrition
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by jared | 2 Comments »