Women’s Health May 2012 - The Skinny On Fat

Simple Daily Recipes shows how different cage-free eggs can be. Just because they’re not smashed into a tiny cage doesn’t mean they’re eating a natural diet.

I keep discovering US produced products that are banned in Europe and it really makes me worry about all of us here. I can’t tell if they’re over protective of their citizen (but could that ever be a bad thing?) or if our leaders are more than happy to flush our healths down the toilet so that they can line their wallets.

It’s not just beef and chlorinated chicken either; our GM corn, wheat and soy are also banned or require labels. They even went so far as to burn crops when GM plants were found growing in them. Now that says a lot when you consider it’s in just about every food in this country.

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dirtylittlecarnivore:

Boxes containing eight four-pound bags of ginger-citrus sauce, each with a refrigerated shelf life of about four months, are shipped to Chili’s restaurants to accompany the chicken. The ingredients in the sauce sound relatively benign: sugar, hoisin sauce, vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, chili paste, modified food starch, and orange juice concentrate. But sugar is the dominant nutrient, and salt is listed three times.

About the Boneless Shanghai Wings, he said, “Taking it off the bone is like taking the husk off the nut.” That processing step reduces the need for chewing, making the food faster to consume. Those wings contain a solution of up to 25 percent water, hydrolyzed soy protein, salt, and sodium phosphate. The water is in there for several reasons. First, it bulks up the chicken-the industry calls this “reducing shrinkage.” Second, water is cheaper than chicken breast, so it’s less costly to produce. And finally, water makes the food softer and chewing easier. Before the chicken is shipped from the manufacturing plant, it’s battered, breaded, predusted, and frozen. This creates a salty coating that becomes crispy when fried in fat. “All this stuff absorbs fat, dries out this batter and breading, and replaces water with oil. So now you’ve got batter and breading that is probably 40 percent fat,” according to the food consultant. The crispy coating, which also contains corn-syrup solids, dried yeast, and soybean oil, may represent up to half the volume of the nuggets on the plate.

(Source: therenegadevarietyhour)

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I can vouch for this first hand but it takes a lot longer than most people think and I don’t think it every really ends.

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biggest-loser:

the-healthy-choice:

The Skinny on Obesity..

THis fucking makes me hate processed food and want to eat clean even more. GR!$#!

This is amazing, I’ll really pay more attention to sugar now :o I remember I started tracking sugar on MyFitnessPal and I always went over the limit, so I just stopped tracking, I really should do that again.

For people who can’t view it through Tumblr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0zD1gj0pXk

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blogilates:

Does this alarm you?

Shape April 2012 (USA Edition)
When you compare some of the calories to the portion size they don’t even seem worth the splurge. Even more so when you consider the average person don’t eat portions that small.

thefitandfooddiaries:

The difference is very obvious here. Fresh, frozen on the left and canned on the right.

Canned is filled with sodium to keep it preserved. And is mushy and gross.

They freeze vegetables right after they pick them basically so they are fresh and crispy!

I know which one I’m choosing.. 

Ew! When I was younger, I actually preferred canned green beans to fresh… now if someone serves canned veggies, I want to vom :x If you can’t get fresh, or don’t want to I guess, frozen>canned!

Plus many canneries still use liners that contain BPA and ingesting too much of it can lead to serious health problems. I still believe this is one of the main reasons the poor are in worse health than middle and upper class. They don’t have the money to buy higher quality food or even food that comes in safer packaging.