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The high-fructose corn syrup bloggers: A symptom of a larger problem?

October 7, 2010




Almost exactly one year after the Nestle Family bloggers, we now have the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) bloggers, otherwise known as the “Corn Sugar” bloggers (note: HFCS is known as glucose/fructose in Canada). Like Nestle a year ago, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) invited a bunch of bloggers to listen to their one-sided version of [...]

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Make it about what goes in, not what comes out

April 20, 2010




With Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign happening along side ongoing promotion of incredibly unhealthy food as reasonable meal options (french fries passing as vegetables, “Lunchables” passing as lunch, Kraft Dinner passing as a reasonable donation to food insecure families, toddler meals laden with sodium passing as specially made for toddlers, [...]

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Quelling crazed consumerism

November 28, 2008




I want that I need that I like that I want it I want that I want this That is what the chorus was starting to sound like at our house a few weeks ago. Our kids used to only watch Treehouse (advertising free educational kids television) and PBS Kids (in particular for Sesame Street). [...]

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Infant feeding choices and obesity

July 3, 2008




I really hate the media sometimes. The number of inflammatory headlines that they come up with when discussing breastfeeding never ceases to amaze me. No wonder some mothers are scared right into formula feeding. The problem is that these stories often do not show all angles of the issue. The latest scare tactic: If you [...]

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