We can all learn from this 11 year old. We need to teach our kids how to eat for proper nutrition and to prevent disease. This is a must watch video.
What is Food Irradiation?
What is Food Irradiation? Food Irradiation is exposing food to ionizing radiation to destroy microorganisms, bacteria, viruses, or insects that might be present in the food. The radiation is usually in the form of gamma rays from radioactive materials. Food irradation is used to delay ripening and extend shelf life in fruits and vegetables, destroy …
Produce – Should you buy organic or not?
Links to pesticide exposure are being found in a growing number of studies that evaluate the causes of preventable diseases — including asthma, autism and learning disabilities, birth defects and reproductive dysfunction, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and several types of cancer.
Genetically Modified Foods – How Can You Recognize Them?
Genetically Modified Foods are foods derived from genetically modified organisms. A genetically modified organism (GMO) or genetically engineered organism (GEO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. These techniques, generally known as recombinant DNA technology, use DNA molecules from different sources, which are combined into one molecule to create …
Super Antioxidants in your Spice Cabinet
Super antioxidants are found in fruits, vegetables and spices. Most of the lists you find on the internet have lists of the most popular antioxidants not the most powerful. Super antioxidants are rated by a test called ORAC which stands for oxygen radical absorbance capacity. Which in English translates to; the nutrients capabilities to destroy …
Cancer’s Favorite Food -Found in Everything you eat? Posted by Dr. Mercola
Cancer’s Favorite Food – Found in Everything You Eat? Posted By Dr. Mercola | August 27 2010 | Tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, according to a study that challenges the notion that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways. …
MSG – The Hidden “Killer” Ingredient
The origin of MSG comes from a very nutritious sea vegetable called “kombu” that Japanese had used, as a taste enhancer for thousands of years. In 1908, Dr. Kikunae Ikeda succeeded to isolate the taste-enhancing chemical from “kombu”. That chemical was “glutamate.” After that Dr. Ikeda and his friend, Dr. Saburosuke Suzuki formed a company …
Acid – Alkaline & pH Quick Reference Food Charts
Acid – Alkaline & pH Quick Reference Food Charts The pH scale is from 0 – 14 Use Only Narrow or Short Range Strips measuring from 4 – 9 0 1 2 3 |4 5 6 7 healthy 8 9| 10 11 12 13 14 Testing your ph is done with what is called …
Anti-Angiogenesis Foods – Foods that Fight Cancer Naturally!
Anti-Angiogenesis is a cancer therapy that consists of the intake of drugs or natural foods that deprive cancerous tumors of blood supplies. In other words, Anti-Angiogenesis starve tumors by choking off blood supplies to them. Tumors rely heavily on an uninterrupted supply of blood, if there is a deprivation, cancerous cells die. There are currently about …
Sugar or Sweetners
Here is a great article on sugars and artificial sweetners. I do agree with this article but instead of 100% cane sugar I use Stevia. Stevia is an all natural sweetner with a zero glycemic index used safely for hundreds of years. It has been thoroughly tested in dozens of tests around the world and …
Food Dyes Should Be Banned
Food dyes pose risks of cancer, hyperactivity in children and allergies, and they should be banned. http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating-recipes/stories/food-dyes-pose-rainbow-of-risks
