Tag: foods
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Adding Herbs Daily for the Culinary and Medicinal Benefits
The importance of food in our holiday gatherings can not be over emphasized. In a day in age when more than 80% of adults are taking medications for health issues and 50% of our children are diagnosed with chronic diseases we need to modify our thinking about our food. Nature provided us with all the…
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Are Gum Additive Safe?
What are Gum additives and Why are they in our food? Gum additives are everywhere in our food supply today. Xanthan and guar gum are by far the most common. But there are many others too, such as locust bean gum (carob gum), gellen gum, cellulose gum, and relative newcomer tara gum. The savvy shopper…
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Buyer Beware: You HAVE To Read Labels
HFI: Research your foods and learn to read labels. Healthy doesn’t necessarily mean free of harmful ingredients. Food labeled “healthy” should be nutritious, low in added sugar, and free of trans fat and other harmful ingredients, right? Not according to the Food and Drug Administration’s current labeling guidelines. The rules for health claims on food…
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The 2017 Dirty Dozen: Strawberries, Spinach Top EWG’s List of Pesticides in Produce
Julie: My canary child can tell you if the strawberries are contaminated. Even if the label says ORGANIC – doesn’t mean it isn’t sprayed prior to planting. Driscolls causes almost instant reaction for his little body. We have to get to know our farmer before letting my littlest try the strawberries. EWG’s analysis of tests…
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What Is Added To Our Foods Is Making Us Sick
HFI Comment: It is SO VERY IMPORTANT to the health and well being of ourselves and our children to understand the additives in our foods. The rise of chronic disease is directly related to the increase of artificial foods, additives to our food and water and even to the amount of pesticides and herbicides we…