Not Just HFCS and Peanut Butter: Here are 10 Other Risky Foods

While you were discussing your food plan with Billy, he asked if he could use other peanut butters such as Jif, etc. and you explained that he should only use natural peanut butter such as L.S. because you could siphon off the oil. Actually, the oil is a natural component and if you pour too much off, the peanut butter will dry up and not be creamy. We have tried this.

However, a much more important reason for using natural peanut butter is that it does not add "bad" things such as high fructose corn syrup or any of those so-called flavor enhancers which are very unhealthy and seem to be a part of salad dressings and many other foods. They are a cheap way of sweetening foods that do not need it. I make my own salad dressings and keep things as natural as possible. Remember to READ EVERY LABEL. You will be shocked, amazed and you will learn so much.

You are a lovely, warm and kind person and I feel as though you are my friend.

Hugs,

Alisa

Alisa McGeorge of CA 2:47PM September 25, 2009

All I can say is that I've tripled my garden in the last 3 years, we can it all (including home made jams,bbq sauce and ketchup) and started raising chickens. If you've got the space and time this it is well worth it. There is SO much that we cannot control that we've got to make our own peace of mind wherever we can. I also only buy rBGH free dairy products - our USDA has been wrong before and they're doing a miserable job of over sight. There's a reason that rBGH is banned in so many countries. If we have to err, why can't we decide to err in favor of the consumer's health and not the corporation's? They have more rights than we do....which is an abomination in today's society.

Teri Reinhart of OH 5:54PM February 11, 2009

Why would a publication like U.S. News & World Report reprint from another source without first checking its facts? Sprig’s notion that genetically modified organisms are not tested thoroughly is an absolute fabrication.

Biotech crops are among the most heavily regulated agricultural products. The expertise of three federal agencies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is brought to bear on these products. Products derived from this technology do not enter the food supply until all three agencies have determined that they are as safe as conventional crops.

In addition, groups such as the American Medical Association, the American Dietetic Association, World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the National Academies of Sciences have found biotech foods to be safe and nutritionally equivalent to conventionally-produced foods.

Biotech crops have been cultivated for more than a decade, and eaten by billions of people, without one single documented health problem.

Not only is the likelihood of allergenicity from the current generation of biotech crops virtually nil, but this science can also be used to decrease the inherent allergenicity of foods.

Sharon Bomer Lauritsen

Executive Vice President, Food and Agriculture

Biotechnology Industry Organization

Washington, D.C.

Sharon Bomer Lauritsen of DC 3:50PM February 09, 2009

The food industry practices animal cruelty and other unsavory practices, making animals suffer terribly, and the end result is food that is dangerous for humans to eat.

Factory farming must end, and we need to return to a kinder, more natural way of raising animals - for the sake of animals and humans.

Dee of PA 5:44PM February 08, 2009