How food manufacturers trick consumers with deceptive ingredient lists

Mike Adams, NewsTarget

The myth: Ingredient lists on food products are designed to inform consumers about what’s contained in the product. The reality: ingredients lists are used by food manufacturers to deceive consumers and trick them into thinking products are healthier (or better quality) than they really are. This article explores the most common deceptions used by food manufacturers to trick consumers with food ingredients lists. It also contains useful tips for helping consumers read such labels with the proper skepticism.

 

Cream of Brown Rice

(submitted by Kenfrog)

This is a great and easy way to use up cold brown rice leftovers for a hearty breakfast.

Blend cooked brown rice (hot or cold) with milk to make an oatmeal-consistency cereal. Heat in a saucepan and add some margarine, brown sugar, cinammon, rasins, bananas, or whatever topping you like, and serve with milk like oatmeal.

It tastes great cold as well. Chilled in small cups, sweetened with brown sugar and topped with berries, it may well even pass as a desert.

Click here for the oatmeal recipe

 

60+ Uses for Vinegar

Web reprint

 

Lunch lady with a mission: getting kids to eat healthy

(News Reprint)Despite hate mail and ‘hunger strikes,’ a California chef sticks it out to help kids build a better relationship to food.
By Jennifer Wolcott | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

Ann Cooper is not your typical lunch lady. She is more likely to wear a chef’s toque than a hairnet and her roasted chicken and potatoes bear no resemblance to nuggets and Tater Tots. The former chef, who spent much of her 30-plus-year career working in white-tablecloth restaurants and catering for celebrities, is now best known as the “Lunch Lady” in Berkeley, Calif., schools. In cafeterias there she has tossed out fried, frozen, and sugary foods and replaced them with fresh, seasonal, and mostly organic meals.

 

Study adds data that vegetables reduce cancer risk

(Sir Oliver: The new GN on Healthy Living has alot of good counsel from the Lord on eating more vegetables. This is the first in a series of articles we’ll be putting up in the next weeks on vegetables and their benefits. Stay tuned!)

(pic colored by Lena)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)—New research is strengthening evidence that following mom’s admonition to eat your vegetables may be some of the best health advice around.

 

Robbed I tell you…ROBBED!

 by Kenfrog

Yolanda: Ok, what’s with the melodrama?

Here’s what:

This graph from a FBH cookbook illustrates the loss of nutrients in white flour.

Robbed, I tell you, robbed! Of nutrients! (Editor: That’s a run on sentence) You’re golly right it is…We are being robbed of nutrients. (Editor: Better. Thanks.)

The purpose of this post in’t to deplete the white flour stocks from your cupboards. However, when feasible it’s a good idea to use 1/2-1/5 of the flour content  whole wheat depending on the food you’re making. In bread or biscuits I’ll generally use anywhere from 1/2 to 1/4, and in banana cakes maybe 1/4th. Using all whole wheta is dense and overbearing, but try to strike a lucky balance somewhere.

It’s a revolution for “Eat right!”

 

Miscellaneous Health Tidbits 2

 submitted by Daniella

(on strawberries and apple cider vinegar)

 

 (Sir Oliver: Please consult the Lord before trying any health plans, and ask Him for His confirmation as Daniella brings out many times in these articles.)

 

Strawberries:

Yes, isn’t that a nice medicine?

In our village lives a sweet couple. He used to have very painful rheumatism, to the point that he couldn’t work any ore as a waiter.

She found a very nice book, about fruit and vegetables being your medicine. In there it said that when you have rheumatism, you should eat for 1 month every morning a big bowl of strawberries in an empty stomach, and then wait until Lunch before you eat anything else. He tried it, and it worked!

He had no more problems with it for years! Isn’t this a nice medicine?

 

Cinnamon: Good and Good for You

(Eve)

Fast facts: soothes indigestion, controls blood sugar in diabetics, prevents stomach ulcers, wards off urinary tract infections, fights tooth decay and gum disease, prevents vaginal yeast infections.
Cinnamon is more than just a kitchen spice. It’s been used medicinally for thousands of years to fight tooth decay, clear up urinary tract infections and soothe stomach irritation. Modern science has confirmed its value for preventing infection and indigestion, and has also discovered a couple of new therapeutic uses for the herb.

 

Miscellaneous Health Tidbits

sent in by Daniella

(Sir Oliver: Please consult the Lord before trying any health plans, and ask Him for His confirmation as Daniella brings out many times in these articles.)

Headaches

A sweet brother in Belgium, Vincent, sent me a chart on various remedies for different sicknesses. Please see attachment. Since I have frequent head aches, I tried the recommended Ginger and fish oils.

 

How to Decaffeinate Tea

 

Black or green teas are full of healthy antioxidants. Caffeine, however, can have derogatory effects on your health. Here’s an easy way to decaffeinate your tea.

(Sir Oliver: more on caffeine coming soon in the heath section)