Food safety has been in the general media recently. Is it for attention and sensationalism? Do we ignore it, join it or ask for the facts? Facts are always best. It feels good to have a scapegoat for our problems, but it is not productive and can possibly be destructive. Emotional, unthought conclusions should not be considered the truth. For example, my daughter is a brain tumor survivor. She was diagnosed at age two. Brain Tumors are the leading cancer death cause in children. Like any other form of deadly cancer, it is difficult to catch in time. My daughter's tumor was caught in time and she is one of the 5% that survived without major side effects from treatment. Our family is very grateful for this good luck and we thank her … [Read more...]
A Mom’s View on Food Safety and Sensationalism, “GMOs & Pink Slime”
Dad’s honey
My dad is trendy. Wow, I never thought I'd say that, but it's true. My dad's hobbies of growing his own food (fruits and vegetables) and bee keeping are "in" and I'm benefiting. At Christmas, Dad gave my family six 1 pound jars of honey from his bees. Yum! My youngest daughter and myself love real honey on our toast. The bee keeping trend began a few years ago and has blossomed into a country-wide hobby. http://oneblockdiet.sunset.com/2009/07/fashionable-bees.html. Perhaps this trend was driven by our distrust of honey imports. The United States has no legal standard for honey at a national level. It leaves our nation wide open to fraudulent honey imports (colored high fructose corn syrup) that are sold at a premium … [Read more...]
Flavorists: the enablers & my Grandmothers
CBS 60 minutes recently aired a special report on : "The Flavorists: Tweaking tastes and creating cravings". I would have appreciated the segment more if it actually went into explaining food flavors and the flavor industry, but instead Morley Safer indicated that the flavor industry is "the enabler of the Food Processing Industry". The implication then being that processed foods taste delicious and therefore people eat too much and become obese. This program attracted a plethora of negative comments about the flavor industry and one commenter even mentioned her disgust of flavorist morals. Some untruths from the written segment: 1) They (flavorists) mimic mother nature's molecules with chemicals. Molecules are the same as … [Read more...]
