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I was following up on a diary posted yesterday about McDonalds and fast food being poisonous to families and how this stuff should be avoided at all costs, and while this particular story was short, the comments under it hit a whole number of nerves...
by 728huey
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on Wed May 01, 2024 at 06:56 AM PDT
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 02:50 PM PST
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This story is an attempt a glimpse of the truth that has been in the open for quite some time. I am writing it in follow up to the SEMDEM DK story about food pyramids in the nineties as well as some pretty good commentary about it by readers that...
by splainme
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on Mon Nov 13, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Sucralose is commercially available as Splenda. Wikipedia: Sucralose is an artificial sweetener and sugar substitute. The majority of ingested sucralose is not broken down by the body, so it is noncaloric. ... Sucralose was discovered in 1976 by...
by LapDog
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on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 06:54 AM PDT
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SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a federal benefit that allows people with limited incomes to purchase nutritious food. Except when the GQP is in charge, millions of American families rely on this monthly electronic benefits...
by CorpFlunky
57 comments
on Wed Feb 01, 2023 at 09:13 AM PST
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Imagine this can of tuna you would find in the store. It’s approximately five ounces in weight.� Now picture a typical dinner meal: About 3-4 ounces of protein, maybe more;�about a half cup of ...
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Mar 18, 2023 at 04:30 PM PDT
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Up till now the "war on drugs" has been a huge failure. It has incarcerated millions of people. Corrupted entire societies. Destroyed millions of lives. Cost many billions -- maybe even trillions -- of dollars. This essay argues that properly funded...
by boblite
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on Fri Dec 02, 2022 at 03:00 PM PST
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This is a list of the vitamins and mineral supplements that nutritional science and medicine generally agree the general population should take (and would benefit from) daily: Surprise, there aren’
by ArkDem14
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on Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 06:14 PM PDT
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As some of you may or may not know, I had bariatric surgery in 2019. I had the sleeve gastrectomy, which is where the doctor removes about 80% of the stomach, leaving a pouch about as big as a ...
by zenbassoon
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on Tue Nov 08, 2022 at 07:00 PM PST
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Now for something completely different, let's talk about the facts and myths about pink Himalayan salt. I could make this my shortest blog ever and state, "it's salt." Followed by a mic drop. But it is a bit more complicated than that. There may be...
by SkepticalRaptor
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on Mon Jun 06, 2022 at 11:08 AM PDT
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Buried in the avalanche of bad news recently was a story you may have missed: the US is quietly ending funding for free school lunches and summer meals programs at the end of June, affecting millions of kids nationally. That hits me hard. The entire...
by SquireForYou
294 comments
on Sun Jun 05, 2022 at 08:40 AM PDT
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Even before the novel coronavirus pandemic changed our lives, people in this nation were still going hungry. For some folks, this looks like a literal lack of food, and for others, they might technically have “enough” food, but it’s lacking in...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Sep 27, 2021 at 01:46 PM PDT
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With food insecurity already present in the U.S., the coronavirus only worsened the issue nationwide. According to NPR, food insecurity more than doubled due to the economic crisis COVID-19 inflicted, impacting as many as 23% of households this year....
by Aysha Qamar
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on Mon Aug 16, 2021 at 02:22 PM PDT
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In the world of nutrition (or even the world of cooking in general) frozen food tends to get a bad reputation. Frozen vegetables, specifically, tend to be regarded with a shudder. In an ideal world, ...
by Marissa Higgins
226 comments
on Sun Jan 10, 2021 at 06:00 PM PST
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Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. and Bedford, Mass. (July 14, 2020) — Blue California, a science-based, innovative ingredient solution provider, has just filed for a patent on therapeutic uses of the ingredient Ergothioneine. This follows Blue...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Jul 20, 2020 at 06:04 PM PDT
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I am not a medical professional. The information I am adding here is how I stay calm. I like to be prepared for the worst, and expect the best. It is how I remain stress free. Stress can be a killer… so don’t panic. The disease is not yet a problem in...
by List maker NOT List taker
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on Tue Feb 25, 2020 at 09:31 PM PST
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by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Jan 21, 2020 at 04:50 AM PST
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Taco Bell just announced that it will test a $100,000 salary in “select locations” of its restaurants for general managers in company-owned stores, as reported by The New York Times . In some ...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Jan 20, 2020 at 06:00 PM PST
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Just three days after proposing a rule change designed to take food assistance from nearly 700,000 Americans, White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley went on Fox News to rant about the impeachment of Donald Trump with a particularly heinous...
by First Amendment
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on Sat Dec 07, 2019 at 05:54 AM PST
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While writing an article about dog food myths, I ran across something that flabbergasted me – vegan cat food. I was literally going to scream at my computer screen, then I decided I'd redirect my thoughts to a post about it. The ridiculous thoughts...
by SkepticalRaptor
158 comments
on Fri Nov 15, 2019 at 11:17 AM PST
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