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NAKEDpizza to go Nationwide

It seems The Kraft Group has now joined with Mark Cuban in backing NAKEDpizza. Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and founder of broadcast.com and HDnet, invested in the company in May 2009.
NAKEDpizza, originally called World’s Healthiest Pizza, was launched by Jeff Leach in 2006 as one small store in New Orleans. Leach is [...]

Back-to-School Breakfasts and Brown Bag Lunches

Are you a busy mom or dad looking for some creative ways to feed your kids healthy and nutritious meals before they head off to school?  It’s not always easy finding tasty, high protein options that are low in fat and sugar that kids are willing to eat.  It’s even harder to get them to sit [...]

Always Forget Your Keys? Could Be High-fructose

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Science Daily reports researchers at Georgia State University determined diets high in fructose (found in most processed foods and beverages) impaired the spatial memory of adult rats.
Rats were placed in a pool of water to test their ability to learn to find a submerged platform, which allowed them to get out of the [...]

Starbucks Revamping Menu … Again

Mark your calendars for June 30.  That’s when Starbucks, the world’s leading coffee chain, will discontinue selling products with high fructose corn syrup and introduce a new menu of healthy salads and other light and low-fat offerings.  All new menu items will be free of artificial colors, flavors and preservatives.  The ingredient changes will affect about [...]

Why is Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup? – Ask The FDA

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The issue with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is not with the claim that it’s linked to obesity and diabetes, the issue is that HFCS is marketed as “natural” and “safe”. The process involved in manufacturing HFCS involves using a host of chemicals that have resulted in samples of HFCS testing positive for [...]

The Skinny on the Stuff that’s Supposedly Making us Fat

Poor high fructose corn syrup.
This sugar substitute has been getting a bad rap for some time now, as one of the longest running scapegoats for why Americans are obese (as if high fructose corn syrup is personally responsible for people packing on the extra pounds).  As just one of the members of the family of natural sweeteners, [...]

Congress May Tax Soft drinks, Beer & Wine

To help fund Obama’s plan to overhaul health care, the Senate Finance Committee has aimed their sites on levying a federal excise tax on “sugar-sweetened drinks” and alcoholic beverages.
The committee believes these taxes would “nudge consumers away from products deemed likely to boost health costs, including alcohol and sugary sodas. The committee is considering a [...]

Sugar’s Back in Town

We all tremble in fear.  The smooth, sweet, and tantalizingly tasty villain who plots to increase our blood glucose, stuff us with calories, and raise our obesity rate is a constant shadow over our collective dietary happiness.  Sugar.  Oohh, goosebumps.
Sugar has been cast as a nutritional evil for decades now, and despite myriad scoops about [...]

Do Vegetarians Eat Animal Crackers?

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“Yes, but not the head,” someone answered. The question is about as preposterous as the state of our nation’s large-scale farming enterprise known as agribusiness. Michael Pollan, best selling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (among others), and his latest, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, is [...]