McDonald’s leads in food advertising to children

McDonald’s and Children’s Health, or The Production of New Customers Like you didn’t already know this.

Forced Vacinations in NJ?

The Public Health Council in New Jersey has voted to require all children attending preschool or daycare to be injected with not just one vaccine, but four different vaccines.

Holiday Survival Tips

For many of us the holidays begin at Halloween and last clear up until Super Bowl. It seems as though we go from one holiday to another, without pause as to what we have eaten or how we have treated (or mistreated) our bodies. So here are a few tips to keep us a little healthier during the holidays!Holiday Survival Tips:

• Be sure to drink one full glass of water between holiday party drinks and food courses. This one step can save you pounds and headaches throughout the holiday season!

• Exercise more. It’s pretty basic, if you consume more, you must burn off more. So make time to exercise, even 30 minutes is better than nothing.

• Plan, plan, plan. Plan what you will eat and not eat at holiday dinners, parties, etc.

• Socialize at holiday events in lieu of eating everything and anything that is presented to you. Remember this is often a time to catch up with loved ones you don’t see often enough. So get talking!

• Avoid the perfection game! Many of us try to create the perfect holiday experience and are disappointed when the holidays do not live up to our unrealistic expectations. For stress eaters this can be a very difficult time, and cause you to pack on more pounds. So relax and try to do your best to remind yourself that the holidays are about reconnecting with friends and family not about creating unnecessary stress.

• Take time to give thanks! Appreciate your many blessings, and let them be the focus of the holidays, not the food.

Tips from High Level Wellness.

Sustainable vs. Unsustainable

Auhtor, Michael Pollan talks about the word “sustainablility”, what’s happening to all the bees?, the recent outbreak of MRSA, and what to do when the whole thing breaks down.

Our Decrepit Food Factories.

another message in a bottle

At least a quarter of all bottled water is taken directly from municipal sources.  That’s right: the source of at least 25 percent (and some believe up to 40 percent) of bottled water is not the fairytale mountain streams depicted on the bottle, but rather your own municipal tap. The best selling bottled water brand on the market — Aquafina — caused quite a stir back in July when owner PepsiCo announced it would begin spelling out bottled from “public water sources” on its labels.

There’s a reason why “Evian” spelled backwords is “Naïve.”

Check and see how your local tap water rates.

CAN

Every now and then we need a source of inspiration. Something to remind us how strong we are.  Something to remind us that we CAN do big things, that we are stronger than we think. 

This should do it.

rethink, unwind

government sponsored weight loss

Should the government pay you to lose weight?

you are what you grow ??

 

“Like most processed foods, the Twinkie is basically a clever arrangement of carbohydrates and fats teased out of corn, soybeans and wheat–three of the five commodity crops that the farm bill supports, to the tune of some $25 billion a year. (Rice and cotton are the others.) For the last several decades–indeed, for about as long as the American waistline has been ballooning–U.S. agricultural policy has been designed in such a way as to promote the overproduction of these five commodities, especially corn and soy.

A result of these policy choices is on stark display in your supermarket, where the real price of fruits and vegetables between 1985 and 2000 increased by nearly 40 percent while the real price of soft drinks (a k a liquid corn) declined by 23 percent. The reason the least healthful calories in the supermarket are the cheapest is that those are the ones the farm bill encourages farmers to grow.”

from You Are What You Grow by Michael Pollan

Effort to Limit Junk Food in Schools Faces Hurdles

Federal lawmakers are considering the broadest effort ever to limit what children eat: a national ban on selling candy, sugary soda and salty, fatty food in school snack bars, vending machines and à la carte cafeteria lines.Read the full NY Times article.