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While you’re busy avoiding imported Asian seafood until the government-inspection backlog clears,
Make sure to check out the FAQ-style podcast called, “Please Explain” over at the Leonard Lopate show on the subject of Food Poisoning and the recent Foster Farms Salmonella Outbreak.
And while your mind’s in that space, have a look back at Reader Zach’s update to our Clay-Eating Cheeky Monkeys Stomach Flu Remedy Post, along with…
To borrow a quote from DKG: If you look at the soil under a microscope, every single day is Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
And the point this film is trying to make is that modern agriculture takes an awful lot for-granted and engages in several practices that hurt the foundations that all of our food is built upon.
–From the pesticides some GMO seeds need to survive, to abandoned crop-rotation methods…
Though the end to the government-shutdown is barely past a week old, count on the backlog of food inspections to last abit longer than the original 2+ week duration.
And to that end, you might want to reacquaint yourselves with BuzzFeed’s breakdown+list down at the links for some good reminders on how to stay safe abit longer.
PS: It might also be good to check back in with EWG’s Dirty Dozen, too…
Here’s a great video by ASAP Science to show you what 200 calories looks like.
It’s also a pretty good primer on the different Calorie-Densities of the foods you’re probably eating.
And while you’re thinking about them, remember: Processed, Take-out, and Restaurant foods will likely have a lot of extra calories you don’t really need.
One example is the difference between…
Well, with all the very serious, researchy Sheldon-Cooper “Multi-Dimensional-Math” crap going on in “normal” science, it’s nice to know that a few health-technologists can get down to some Real Damn Business!
These intrepid code-monkeys have finally put those analytical chops to some good and,
Decoded the DNA of The world’s most popular Cocoa Beans!
So, perhaps …
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So two years ago Stanley Hazen published a paper saying the compound TMAO is linked to heart disease.
When mice were fed more of it, their risk for atherosclerosis went up.
It turns out the stuff is created when gut bacteria break down some foods.
So in a new study, Stanley makes this mental leap: Red Meat is something people eat, passes through the gut, and is associated with heart disease.
-Maybe there’s something in there that gets turned into that TMAO from 2 years ago?…
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UPDATE!: NYT Finds Counter-Study!
And on a similar note to the EWG List,
What the EFF was Stanford trying to prove with that meta-analysis-study on Organics?
The whole thing was presented to make you feel like Organic is just as bad as regular food and not worth the outlay.
The first thing I’ve always thought about Organic is this: Lower Chemical Load in the Body.
-You get less of less-toxic pesticides, antibiotics, growth-hormones, etc.
-Therefore, there is less of a chance those will STAY in your body and cause problems over time…
Here’s a good small list of fruits and vegetables, published by the Environmental Working Group, that gives you a good look into which have the most & worst persistent Pesticide Residue.
If any of you out there have blanched at the prices on some organic foods, then this list is also for you,
-Especially because the EWC has been nice enough to include another list of the Cleanest foods in the same pesticide-load terms as the dirty ones.
That should help the budget abit…
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