Grocery Shopping with Emma

Happened across this article posted in the Jamaica Gleaner. Apparently those annoying HFCS ads are showing up there too.
Hop on over and check out the results of her perusing the grocery aisle for HFCS, as well as her scrumptious looking scratch pancake recipe. (the picture shows home-made chocolate syrup, I wonder where I can [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Healthy Surfing, Notable NewsPosted on October 6th, 2008

The sweetener plot thicketh

Last month I commented on a press release article I’d found in the Wall Street Journal about a survey that found that more parents are concerned with individual ingredients rather than their children’s total caloric intake.
Apparently CBS noticed my article and decided to expand on it….hehe probably not, but I can wish right?
Anyway they did [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Notable NewsPosted on October 5th, 2008

Eating HFCS or eating babies, which is worse?

Surfing around for more lovely High Fructose Corn Syrup related news, I ran across this post at the Daily Freeman. I love the approach of comparing sugar weight to consuming newborns. One of which is not recommended, the other is recommended in moderation. I’m not sure which was which.
I seriously recommend hopping over there. There [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Notable NewsPosted on September 12th, 2008

Sweet potato may replace corn for ethanol

For the last few years, more and more corn has been used not as a food source, but for conversion to fuel. Since the corn used was for animal feed, it was promised that it would not effect food prices. It did anyway. It became more expensive to feed animals and the price of [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Notable NewsPosted on September 6th, 2008