In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead [...]
The MSG-reaction is a reaction to free glutamic acid that occurs in food as a consequence of manufacture. MSG-sensitive people do not react to protein (which contains bound glutamic acid) or any of the minute amounts of free glutamic acid that might be found in unadulterated, unfermented, food.
These ALWAYS contain MSG
Glutamate
Glutamic acid
Gelatin
Monosodium glutamate
Calcium [...]
Author: Sam Fahmy
Herbs and spices are rich in antioxidants, and a new University of Georgia study suggests they are also potent inhibitors of tissue damage and inflammation caused by high levels of blood sugar.
Researchers, whose results appear in the current issue of the Journal of Medicinal Food, tested extracts from 24 common herbs and spices. [...]
Keeping a food diary can double a person’s weight says the findings from one of the largest and longest running weight loss maintenance trials ever conducted. The study is published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
the study is one of the few studies to recruit a large percentage of African Americans as study participants [...]
If you did not already know it, a healthy diet is better for you than a not so healthy one, says this study.
A new study reported by HealthDay news finds that a diet ow in saturated fats and sugar and high in vegetables, fruits and whole grains translates into lower death rates from from heart [...]
The latest industrial food crisis, tainted salmonella causing tomatoes, continues to grow. Thus far the the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has not pinpointed the source of the tainted tomatoes.
”We are continuing to receive reports of ill people,” said Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director of the CDC’s division of foodborne, bacterial and mycotic diseases. “We do [...]
A landmark study published in the Lancet has, for the first time, conclusively linked common food additives, like food coloring and the widely used preservative sodium benzoate, to hyperactivity in children three-to-nine yeas old. The results prompted the Food Standards Agency of the UK to issue a warning to parents about food additives.
This is not [...]