I ran across this article today and after reading it, I am incensed. Here’s the headline: U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow.
The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department [...]
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With great anticipation, I opened this article on Forbes about Healthy Desserts. I anticipated bowls of berries with coconut and cinnamon and other fruit concoctions, sufficient to satisfy the sweet tooth, but without loads of sugar. Boy was I wrong. Ok, I really didn’t anticipate that. I anticipated pretty much what [...]
Regina Wilshire did it again with this review of the findings of the 15th Annual European Conference on Obesity. Check out those very interesting stats on fat and saturated fat. I can’t wait to see the low-fatters scramble to cover their rears again. I bet they’ll claim that all of those Eastern [...]
…and I have my doubts that this try will be more successful that previous attempts. Animal research raises possibility of end to fat-free diets.
I’ll just go ahead and lead off with a comment that logic should have put an end to fat-free and low-fat diets long ago.
A new study in mice raises a tantalizing [...]
I just finished an excellent book by Dr. Ray D. Strand called Death By Prescription: The Shocking Truth Behind an Overmedicated Nation. Dr. Strand opens the book with an examination of the very chummy relationship between the FDA, the organization charged with protecting consumer health, and the pharmaceutical companies. This relationship results in [...]
Here is an article from last week’s New York Times: Scientists Look to Vaccines in the War on E. Coli
E.coli 0157:H7 has been in the news quite a bit of late. This is the particularly virulent strain that causes humans so many problems, up to and including death. When the news first broke [...]
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Just a short rant/observation from today:
I stopped by the grocery today to pick up a few things for the Kentucky Derby party this weekend. Near the bakery (had to get bread for the wife’s spinach dip) is the deli and lots of fresh-made foods. I spied some deviled eggs and out of curiosity, [...]
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