China "Dog Meat" Festival Begins

[rickyb]

for all you fatties:

What’s the Best Diet for Weight Loss? | Center for Science in the Public Interest

What advice do you have for people while we’re waiting for more results?
At the moment, it’s still going to boil down to eat less added sugars. Whether you do low-carb or low-fat, when we focus on quality, we ask everybody to eliminate added sugars to the degree possible.

That means less processed packaged food and more cooking. I tell people to go to farmers markets more, because those words are somehow more intuitive than telling them to add up how many grams of unsaturated fat, how many grams of fish oil, how many grams of fiber, soluble or insoluble, glycemic index or load…my brain’s on overload.

So what’s the best diet for weight loss? I say “Go to the farmers market and buy what’s fresh.”

 

[rickyb]

i just ate these 2 frozen greek cheese pastries. they were very small. they have more fat than a subways veggie footlong.

 

[rickyb]

i think the cereal isle is a metaphor for our understanding of the world which is mostly crap.

cereals are probably 95% added sugars and over priced. a healthy cereal is oats or bran flakes with no sugars, and you add your own nuts and fruit. but the fact that basically all of them arent this shows that people dont understand and dont know how to make good decisions.

 

[vantexan]

i think the cereal isle is a metaphor for our understanding of the world which is mostly crap.

cereals are probably 95% added sugars and over priced. a healthy cereal is oats or bran flakes with no sugars, and you add your own nuts and fruit. but the fact that basically all of them arent this shows that people dont understand and dont know how to make good decisions.

Says the guy who just ate 2 high fat pastries.

 

[rickyb]

Says the guy who just ate 2 high fat pastries.

i didnt buy them. it was 7 grams of fat so thats managable

 

[542thruNthru]

i think the cereal isle is a metaphor for our understanding of the world which is mostly crap.

cereals are probably 95% added sugars and over priced. a healthy cereal is oats or bran flakes with no sugars, and you add your own nuts and fruit. but the fact that basically all of them arent this shows that people dont understand and dont know how to make good decisions.

Aisle.

@Austin.Was.My.Hero I need your signature line here....

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Aisle.

Clean up on Aisle 5

 

[rickyb]

a must watch from consumer reports about drug residues in meats which were never approve for food use and banned are still showing up in US food supply. regulators in this case refuse to even acknowledge their own reports or enforce the law or even look into it, instead of the usual "we dont have the resources" or "its not on our priority list". consumer reports recommending people cut back on meat and regulators to do their job.

the drug residues can cause aplastic amenia, inability to produce new blood cells, are carcinogens, blood disorders, and one of them is a street drug.

this actually reminds me of what ralph nader always says about the corporate crime wave and at the end of the big short movie the guy goes off about fraud:

"Mark Baum: We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me ins't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did."

 

[rickyb]

turns out even mexican diet is contaminated:

"Did you know that most flour is fortified to help prevent birth defects? It’s just one way our food system helps to improve health outcomes for Americans, and is well-known as one of the most important and simple public health advances. But not everyone is benefiting equally from this kind of fortification.

You can help us change that!

Consuming folic acid before and during the first few weeks of pregnancy helps to prevent major birth defects of the brain and spine, such as spina bifida. Thankfully, since mandatory fortification took effect two decades ago, these birth defects have dropped nationwide.

Unfortunately, corn masa flour, which is consumed more often by Hispanic women, lacks the fortification requirement that applies to other flours, and thus, it is rarely fortified.

Failing to fortify corn masa and corn tortillas with folic acid increases the risk of serious birth defects.

CSPI and our partners are working diligently to fix this problem. We’re calling on you to help us better understand the mix of corn masa products in your local supermarket, as we tackle this problem.

Here’s how you can help! Next time you’re at the supermarket, please look for corn masa flour and corn masa tortilla products at in your local grocery store, take a picture, and share it with us. Tag @FFINetwork and @CSPI and use the hashtag #FindFolicAcid in your photos.

Every picture we have will tell us more about the marketplace and help us to plan our campaigns to target the tortillas and flour that are missing this critical fortification!

Thank you for all you do to help everyone have a healthier and safer food system.

Warmly,

Laura MacCleery
Policy Director
Center for Science in the Public Interest

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

Cattle Ranchers Are Trying to Get the Word 'Meat' Taken Off the Labels of Meat Substitutes

According to the Times report, some ranchers and farmers (as well as lobbyists paid by their industry) are worried that plant-based meat substitutes—an industry that is growing by double digits each year and is rapidly getting better at producing tastier products—will threaten their bottom line.

They seem particularly worried about losing control of labeling, like the dairy industry failed to anticipate the rise of almond and soy milk.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Cattle Ranchers Are Trying to Get the Word 'Meat' Taken Off the Labels of Meat Substitutes

According to the Times report, some ranchers and farmers (as well as lobbyists paid by their industry) are worried that plant-based meat substitutes—an industry that is growing by double digits each year and is rapidly getting better at producing tastier products—will threaten their bottom line.

They seem particularly worried about losing control of labeling, like the dairy industry failed to anticipate the rise of almond and soy milk.

WTH???
Somebody hijacked DIDO's account.
This post was informational and helpful ... no way in HELL did DIDO compose this message!

 

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WTH???
Somebody hijacked DIDO's account.
This post was informational and helpful ... no way in HELL did DIDO compose this message!

I have to admit, I was surprised when I saw it. Lol.

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

WTH???
Somebody hijacked DIDO's account.
This post was informational and helpful ... no way in HELL did DIDO compose this message!

 

[rickyb]

i eat a ton of veggies:

“Nobody was supposed to eat added sugars or refined grains, and everybody was supposed to eat vegetables,” says Gardner. “Americans get a quarter of their calories from added sugars and refined grains and a woefully low number of calories from vegetables…if you don’t count potatoes. If we could just get people to make those changes, we’d be well on our way.”

Cutting carbs, fat, or protein for weight loss - Nutrition Action

 

[rickyb]

cereals that are high in added sugar should have to put a warning on the boxes about how added sugars lead to a variety of health problems including weight gain and cancer, and how they are being cheap instead of putting in real fruits, and how you should eat a low added sugar cereal and add fruit yourself instead.

 

[rickyb]

Q: How is our current diet harming the environment?
A: In every way possible. The way we produce food is having a devastating impact on the environment. Its effect on climate change has gotten the most attention, and for good reason. It’s very much threatening the future of the world that our children and our grandchildren will experience.

What’s really worrisome is that the changes are accelerating in ways that were not predicted, and we seem to be reaching tipping points where the consequences accelerate climate change.

Q: And the damage goes beyond climate change?
A: Yes. For example, the nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from fertilizer is contributing to pollution and dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere. Those areas—where oxygen levels are so low that animals die off—will affect our ability to produce food in the future. Clearing land to grow food for animals is destroying forests and pasturelands, which is leading species to become extinct at a rate that is unprecedented during human existence. And our food system is diminishing the availability of fresh water in many places.


Q: What did the EAT-Lancet commission do?
A: Our goal was to find a healthy and sustainable diet that could feed close to 10 billion people. When you look at the big picture—what we’re doing now and where it’s headed—the problem is so daunting that it’s almost paralyzing. So we broke it down into several steps.

The first was to define a healthy diet. Fortunately, we have a lot more data than we did even 20 or 30 years ago. That healthy diet would have relatively low amounts of red meat and other animal foods and lots of fruits and vegetables, along with whole grains and healthier fats. But it has quite a bit of flexibility, so we call it a flexitarian diet. You could also call it a plant-forward or a planetary health diet.

Q: Why so little beef?
A: Cattle have rumens—stomachs where food is slowly digested by fermentation. A lot of methane is produced during the digestive process in the rumen that essentially is expelled as burps or farts.

Q: And methane is a potent greenhouse gas?
A: Yes. Also, cattle live longer than chickens. They take about 1 to 1½ years to come to market if they’re grain fed—or 2 to 2½ years if they’re grass fed—and every day that they’re alive, they’re emitting methane and breathing out carbon dioxide.

We simply cannot eat the amounts of beef that we’re now consuming and still have a future for our grandchildren.

Meat ‘n Heat

Q: How about fish?
A: We can’t increase our catch of wild fish. We’re overfishing as it is.

The "Grandparents' Diet" - Nutrition Action

 

[rickyb]

The Worst Food for Tooth Decay | NutritionFacts.org

in this video big corporations have cereals which are 50% sugar, they make the sugar titles smaller until they disappear, theres some graphs about the connection between sugar and cereal and dental cavities, and they say eliminating sugar from cereals which would supposedly lead to less cavities is "impractical" which of course is a lie.

 

[rickyb]

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/sugary-beverages-linked-with-higher-risk-of-death/

Previous studies have found links between SSB intake and weight gain and higher risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, although few have looked at the connection between SSB intake and mortality

After adjusting for major diet and lifestyle factors, the researchers found that the more SSBs a person drank, the more his or her risk of early death from any cause increased. Compared with drinking SSBs less than once per month, drinking one to four sugary drinks per month was linked with a 1% increased risk; two to six per week with a 6% increase; one to two per day with a 14% increase; and two or more per day with a 21% increase. The increased early death risk linked with SSB consumption was more pronounced among women than among men.

There was a particularly strong link between drinking sugary beverages and increased risk of early death from cardiovascular disease. Compared with infrequent SSB drinkers, those who drank two or more servings per day of SSBs had a 31% higher risk of early death from CVD. Each additional serving per day of SSBs was linked with a 10% increased higher risk of CVD-related death.

 

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https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/sugary-beverages-linked-with-higher-risk-of-death/

Previous studies have found links between SSB intake and weight gain and higher risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, although few have looked at the connection between SSB intake and mortality

After adjusting for major diet and lifestyle factors, the researchers found that the more SSBs a person drank, the more his or her risk of early death from any cause increased. Compared with drinking SSBs less than once per month, drinking one to four sugary drinks per month was linked with a 1% increased risk; two to six per week with a 6% increase; one to two per day with a 14% increase; and two or more per day with a 21% increase. The increased early death risk linked with SSB consumption was more pronounced among women than among men.

There was a particularly strong link between drinking sugary beverages and increased risk of early death from cardiovascular disease. Compared with infrequent SSB drinkers, those who drank two or more servings per day of SSBs had a 31% higher risk of early death from CVD. Each additional serving per day of SSBs was linked with a 10% increased higher risk of CVD-related death.

What does that have to do with eating animals?

 

[rickyb]

What does that have to do with eating animals?

i think its strange just like OP said.