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Category: Nutrition in the news

The Teal Pumpkin Project = Allergy-Safe Trick-or-Treating

Have you heard of the Teal Pumpkin Project? Begun by FARE  (Food Allergy Research & Education) and in its third year, pumpkins painted a bluey-green teal indicate a house that hands out food-allergy-safe/non-food items on Halloween to trick-or-treaters. This year, my house will be joining in. We will be handing out glow bracelets instead of candy, and we […]

Donald Trump: We Don’t Need Food Safety Laws

Marion Nestle, the esteemed professor of nutrition and all things food, reports today on her blog, Food Politics, about Donald Trumps stated intention to dismantle the FDA. Not that I agree with the FDA on everything (ahem, GMOs), but we all know that when left to their own devices, industries usually put profits first and may not adequately police themselves […]

It’s Time to Re-think Statins

Does taking pharmaceutical statins to reduce cholesterol really help people live longer? A new review of 70,000 patient histories says NO! The paper’s authors say that not only are statins a complete waste of time and money, but that people with higher cholesterol have less heart disease! Here’s my favorite quote: “What we found in […]

Is the Gardisil Vaccine Safe?

One more pre-teen girl has died after receiving the Gardisil vaccine, an unnecessary and dangerous vaccine that is being pushed on parents of adolescents as an imperative safeguard for your child’s health. What frustrates me the most is how unnecessary it is to vaccinate a population against a disease that can be easily avoided through […]

How Artificial Sweeteners Make You Sick

Although the majority of industry-funded studies show that artificial sweeteners have no effect on the body, more than 90% of independent studies show that artificial sweeteners like sucralose (Splenda) and aspartame (Equal) affect the microbiome and lead to inflammatory bowel problems as well as double the risk of metabolic issues like diabetes. And, contrary to […]