Do you know how to read food labels? Maybe you THOUGHT you did. Truth is, you probably don’t.
But Jeff Novick, MS, RD — of the McDougall program — does. And in his full talk he shows the 3 easy steps you MUST know if you ever buy foods at any supermarket or “health” food store.
In this online excerpt, Novick — who used to be a food service manager at Kraft Foods — exposes one of the dirty secrets major food corporations use to deceive consumers. It’s no accident labels are so confusing!
High-protein/low-carb diet proponents claim that the US started eating “low-fat” foods 20 years ago and yet still gained weight, “proving” that the low-fat diet wasn’t effective.
This 9 minute video is very interesting and worth the watch. I didn’t know how to properly read (calculate and interpret!) a label, but I did sense it was made complicated by design of the mass food industry. Now I know why. Check it out, let me know what you think.
Robyn O’Brien explains why food allergies have increased. Watch this video, it is very educational and alarming. This is why you should eat only organic food, especially milk and soy.
What is a Food Allergy?
A food allergy is when your body sees food proteins as foreign. The body then launches an inflamatory response to drive out that invader.
Statistics:
There has been a 265% increase in the rate hospitalization related to food allergies.
From 1997 to 2002 there has been a doubling of the peanut allergy.
1 out of 17 kids under the age of 3 has a food allergy
Why are food allergies more common now than they used to be?
Beginning in the 1990s, new synthetic proteins were engineered into our food supply. It was done to drive profits for the food industry. No human trials were conducted to see if they were safe.
Is there something in the milk that wasn’t there when we were kids?
Milk allergy has become the most common food allergy in the United States. Why is this? Beginning in 1994, in order to drive profit for the dairy industry, scientists were able to create this new genetically-engineered growth hormone protein, to make the cows produce more milk. They injected this into the cows. As a result, it was making the animals sick, and it increased antibiotic use in these animals.
Governments around the world banned the use of this protein in their milk, because it was yet not proven safe. The US took a different approach; we said it hasn’t been proven dangerous, so we will allow it.
What are the Rates of Cancer in the US compared to the rest of the world?
The United States has the highest rates of cancer of anywhere in the world. If you were to move to the US from somewhere like Japan, your odds of getting cancer increase four-fold. One out of two American men and one out of three American women are expected to get cancer in this lifetime.
This is all very alarming. We need to make a change in this country.
