Tagged: junk food

Jane Riding the Mesa

In Which Things Go Well

  • December 21st, 2012

In preparation for our big cycling trip next year, we decided we should get out on a few more-or-less fully loaded trips before we go. Our first trip was to be a gentle 3-day excursion: Day 1: Poway to San Elijo State Beach (21 miles) Day 2: San Elijo State Beach to Chula Vista (35.8 miles) Day 3: Chula Vista to Poway (33.4 miles) Turns out, gentle is not exactly the right word. Day 3: Sunday, December 16 If you missed Day1, Part 1, Day 1, Part 2 or Day 2, read them first… We’ll wait for you. Knowing that Sunday’s 35 miles would be rushed, since Stephen…

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Plate of veggies

Should I Eat This? Cheat Sheet

  • December 8th, 2012

When I first set out to write Should I Eat This? A Guide To Food In The 21st Century my goal was to create a simple guide to eating in a complex world. Looking back, I realize my simple guide is almost as complicated as the complexities it was trying to simplify. So, taking a cue from the inimitable Inigo Montoya, who says: Let me ‘splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. …here is a summary of all that we’ve learned over nearly a year of researching and writing Should I Eat This? Should I Eat Fast Food? Should I Eat It? Fuck no. Health…

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May Help Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease

Should I Eat This? Part Three: Fake Health Food

  • May 12th, 2012

Better for you! Fat free! Contains whole grains! Just 100 Calories! 0 Grams Trans Fat! All-Natural! Fake health foods are the carnival barkers of the grocery store, shouting at you from every aisle, promising longevity, beauty, and true happiness, if only you’ll buy their wares. The reason I despise fake health food above most other kinds of food is that it’s always masquerading as something it isn’t. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, mutton dressed as lamb, a vicar in a tutu. What is Fake Health Food? Some of the worst examples? Vitamin-enriched water is often filled with sugar. Most of them also make hoky health claims with…

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Junk Food

Should I Eat This? Part Two: Junk Food

  • April 6th, 2012

In the 70s a kid might have been treated to junk food on a few really special occasions: Halloween, birthdays, maybe Christmas. In 2012, junk food is the stuff you see people grabbing at the drugstore checkout. You know, the drugstore, where you go to buy stuff to make you healthy? Junk food also includes all the store-bought cakes, candies, ice cream and other “treats” we dump into our shopping carts and mindlessly munch on while we’re watching TV or sitting bored at work. What is all this mindless eating of items we can’t identify doing to us? Time to find out. What’s In It? This is a…

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Fresh Pesto

Latest Green News: November 30

  • November 30th, 2011

Here’s your weekly round-up of the latest green news, in all its depressing glory. Actually, I only wanted to spit nails a couple of times this week, so chalk this one up to a win for the environment. Latest Green News That Made Me Want To Spit Big food and big media joined together this week to try to stomp on a proposed list of guidelines around marketing junk food to kids. It’s going to wreck the economy, they screamed, backing up their claims with a self-funded a study (aka some mostly made up numbers). Apparently, the totally voluntary guidelines would kill 75,000 jobs. To me, killing jobs…

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