Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 115 On one of my research outings, I went shopping at Star market in Boston. At the checkout, I stood in line behind an overweight, early-thirties father and his chubby 2 years old son. The man spent $200 on a head of iceberg lettuce and three plums. I’m exaggerating. He only spent … Read more
Number of words: 126 When the US Surgeon General finally got around to acknowledging that cigarette smoking is bad for our health, cigarette advertising was banned from TV and cigarette smoking advertising directed toward children was ultimately banned, including, for example, the Camel cigarette cartoon character whose image was designed to target children. But today … Read more
Number of words: 117 The science – fiction fat olestra, sold under the brand name Olien, is a rather mind- boggling example of a substance that was allowed into our food supply by the FDA, with no regard to human health and welfare. Olestra is a synthesized from sucrose (sugar) bonded to fatty acids in … Read more
Number of words: 409 Here’s where the long-term problems occurred. Since carbs are energy food and should be eaten in quantities that match a person’s individual metabolic health and activity level, when you eat more energy than you are currently burning you’ll gain weight. But Americans weren’t given this message. They were virtually badgered into … Read more
Number of words: 90 While primitive human spent many hours every day chewing raw meat, nuts, seeds, and roots, consuming 300 to 400 calories per hour, modern Americans bite, chew, chew, swallow, and glug entire meals in mere minutes. According to Deniel E. Lieberman, professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, “the size of our … Read more
Number of words: 260 Anyone who is going to undergo gastric bypass would be wise to develop a relationship with a qualified clinical nutritionist who is capable of planning a nutrient-dense meal plan of real food, so that starvation can be achieved in the healthiest way possible, as bizarre as that sounds. Your doctor may … Read more
Number of words: 53 One hundred years ago, a hard working man ate 6,000 to 6,500 calories and hard working women ate 4,000 to 4,500 calories per day. Today an average woman needs 2,000 to 2,500 calories and an average man needs 2,500 to 2,800 calories. Excerpted from page 174 of ‘Death by Supermarket’ by … Read more
Number of words: 85 Dr. Epstein is an outspoken critic of cancer organizations’ focus on cancer drugs rather than prevention. “The National Cancer institute’s budget has increased from 200 million in 1971 to 4.6 billion today,” he said. “Paralleling this increase is the increasing incidence of nonsmoking cancers. Very little money is spent on preventing cancer. … Read more
Number of words: 489 In the 1860s Louis Pasteur discovered that heating milk killed of pathogenic microorganisms that led to many infectious diseases (and launched the germ theory of disease). There were two courses of action the food industry could have taken to halt the spread of infectious diseases through swill milk: They could have … Read more
Number of words: 189 In Charles Frazier’s civil War novel Cold Mountain, a wounded Soldier, Inman, travels perilously back home and along the way is helped and hindered by others, including a goat woman who takes him in and feeds him. Frazier writes, “A little spotted brown- and-white goat came to her and she stroked … Read more
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