From Today's Wall Street Journal

[crazycanuck]

Zen, I agree...!

Do free range chickens have saline enhanced breasts?

[Susan Otcenas]

I think many consumers WANT to be healthy, but we are all too often swayed by marketing and buzzwords, instead of having an actual foundation in nutritional knowledge.

A great book (Just picked up the latest edition, even though I've read it before) is Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook. Good practical, solid nutritional information.

Have any of you seen the Godd Morning America segment on Mountain Dew? You'll shake your head in amazement when watching it.
http://consumerist.com/5152318/mount...alachins-teeth

Susan

[Zen]

I saw a piece by Diane Sawyer where she visited a coal mining town in WV. No one there had anything close to a healthy set of teeth. They call it Mountain Dew Mouth.

Nasty stuff.

[Susan Otcenas]

The link I posted was incomplete.

This is the first piece Diane Sawyer did that mentioned Mountain Dew. It's about halfway throught he video.
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6862142

And this is the followup, that focuses exclusively on Mountain Dew.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6863173

Ultimately, I think Pepsi gave the dentist in the story some money for a vehicle.

Susan

[cylegoddess]

Youd have to drink( from my calculations using the charts developed by a Canadian health Minister, for his countrys Health care system)


about 45 bottles to even meet the amount youd need to fight off daily enviromental toxins( that create more free radicals.)
One of the main reasons that NO ONE seems to know about ( wait ten years and It will be out, it tales ten years for any new science to break into popluar culture), is that

The food pyramid used by most of the world, had been tinkered with by the grain, dairy and meat boards.
The biggest level should and IS verggies and fruit.You need 6 to 11 serves of them. No wonder everyone is overweight in Western countrys. Grain should be the next step, not the bottom.
If you supposedly couldnt live without having 6 to 11 serves of grain a day, id be dead!!

[Jolt]

Good article. When are people going to wake up and realize that the answer is to eat real food, not processed garbage that has "healthy" additives?

[channlluv]

I think a lot of it is poor education on what constitutes a serving, too.

This article makes me wonder if the "all natural" chicken I buy at the alleged health food store is really pumped with salt water. Hmmmmm.... I asked the butcher once if it was anti-biotic free and all that and he said yes, they get it from Foster Farms. It's not labeled Foster Farms, though. I wonder.

And is farm-raised salmon healthy for you? There's a little sign on the meat cooler that says the fish are fed color-enhancing substances simulating their natural diet in order to make the meat pink. That was enough to turn me off, but I can't afford the wild salmon. Alas.

Roxy