Showing posts with label high fructose corn syrup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label high fructose corn syrup. Show all posts
1/21/2010
Monsanto's Corn Link to Organ Failure
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html
7/07/2009
It's About Food
The Sustainable Sandhills film series will focus on food topics with several FREE screenings of King Corn this summer: Fayetteville on July 14; Harnett County on July 28; and Lee County on August 4 (see the Calendar of Events section below for specific times and locations).
The award-winning FOOD Inc. will be coming to the CAMEO Art House Theatre in Fayetteville on August 8-9, and to the Sunrise Theater in Southern Pines on August 13-14. We'll be featuring these FOOD Inc. events in our next eBlast. Thanks to both of these fine independent theaters for bringing FOOD Inc. to our region!
The award-winning FOOD Inc. will be coming to the CAMEO Art House Theatre in Fayetteville on August 8-9, and to the Sunrise Theater in Southern Pines on August 13-14. We'll be featuring these FOOD Inc. events in our next eBlast. Thanks to both of these fine independent theaters for bringing FOOD Inc. to our region!
7/02/2009
Food, Inc. Coming to Sou. Pines, Aug. 13 or 14
HOLD THESE DATES! Thursday or Friday, August 13 or 14.
That is the dates the Sunrise Theater is making a special effort to bring the critical and entertaining new documentary "Food, Inc." to the Sandhills. This Summer SunFlix series offering begins at 7:30.
A lively group of local "foodies" and locavores pressed the case for it (the nearest showing is in Raleigh), and the Sunrise board listened. Hurray! Thank you Sunrise Theater!
Director Robert Kenner truly loves food. Said to be a stimulating to the national discussion of just what has happened to our food system in two or three short decades as the eye-opening Michal Pollan book "Omnivore's Dilemma," "Food, Inc." is a film everyone who eats needs to see. It just might affect your next buying trip to the store, or the next meal you eat.
Reviews for this movie are all over the web now, so check some out. One critic called it "The Inconvenient Truth of Food."
Here's one from PBS:
NOW | Behind the Food We Lovehttp://www.pbs.org/now/shows/523/index.html"Americans have a long-standing love affair with food - the modern supermarket has, on average, over 47,000 products. But do we really know what goes into making the products we so eagerly consume? David Brancaccio talks with filmmaker Robert Kenner, the director of 'Food, Inc.,' which takes a hard look at the secretive and surprising journey food takes on the way from processing plants to our dinner tables.
That is the dates the Sunrise Theater is making a special effort to bring the critical and entertaining new documentary "Food, Inc." to the Sandhills. This Summer SunFlix series offering begins at 7:30.
A lively group of local "foodies" and locavores pressed the case for it (the nearest showing is in Raleigh), and the Sunrise board listened. Hurray! Thank you Sunrise Theater!
Director Robert Kenner truly loves food. Said to be a stimulating to the national discussion of just what has happened to our food system in two or three short decades as the eye-opening Michal Pollan book "Omnivore's Dilemma," "Food, Inc." is a film everyone who eats needs to see. It just might affect your next buying trip to the store, or the next meal you eat.
Reviews for this movie are all over the web now, so check some out. One critic called it "The Inconvenient Truth of Food."
Here's one from PBS:
NOW | Behind the Food We Lovehttp://www.pbs.org/now/shows/523/index.html"Americans have a long-standing love affair with food - the modern supermarket has, on average, over 47,000 products. But do we really know what goes into making the products we so eagerly consume? David Brancaccio talks with filmmaker Robert Kenner, the director of 'Food, Inc.,' which takes a hard look at the secretive and surprising journey food takes on the way from processing plants to our dinner tables.
6/17/2009
Gardening Happenings, Moore County, Jan's Newsletter
There's some things happening tomorrow evening you might want to attend.
But first...
Enjoying the local strawberries, early tomatoes, peaches, sweet corn, creamer potatoes, raspberries, herbs, chard, blueberries and, soon, the blackberries of summer?
Have you picked your first tomato yet?
(We did, an "Early Girl," ten days ago, eaten on - what else - a mater sandwich with a crack of pepper, some smoked turkey and avocado).
The yellow squash, green peppers, garlic and zucchini are starting to ripen and find their way into the kitchen, with the green beans, sweet potatoes, okra and eggplant are gathering speed. Every meal is tasty vegetable abundance.
And also, with gathering speed, come the weeds and garden bugs. I left for a week to visit my brother in Wisconsin, and when I returned last week, I found a chewed up jungle!So much chaos in so little time!
So! How to right things?
I wanted to put out this newsletter quickly, so all you gardeners (or wannabe gardeners) could learn to weather this most satisfying and also the most trying period of the summer garden.
It's hot, it's buggy, it's weedy - but the fruits and veggies of your labors are beginning to be offered in abundance as well.
Come celebrate with cooperative extension agent Taylor Williams this Thursday evening at 5:30 at First Garden Armory park (the site of the Thursday Farmers Market on Morganton Rd. in Southern Pines - park and walk up the hill to the community garden).
The clinic will last an hour or so, with time for questions.
Bring your problem vegetable children and let Taylor diagnose and offer solutions, and see the community garden in action.
Tell your friends, okay? This is short notice.
No registration required for this free clinic, but if you have questions, call 947-3188 See you there!
PS (A clinic on Fall Gardens will be offered in the un-fall-ish month of July (gotta think ahead).
FALL IS OFTEN THE BEST TIME TO GARDEN HERE IN THE SANDHILLS, AS THE PEST PRESSURE DECLINE RAPIDLY.
Mark Thursday, July 16, 5:30 PM at the Armory - same time, same place - on your calender).
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Also, right after this clinic - that is, also this Thursday - Sustainable Sandhills will be offering the movie "King Corn" for your viewing pleasure, 6:30, at the Dempsey Center at Sandhills Community College.
"King Corn" examines exactly what is in the food on our shelves, and the implications for our health. It is eye-opening.
These films are presented for the community to watch and stimulate discussion about Sustainability in our communities.
See you there!
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Speaking of the food we eat, PBS recently did an interesting piece of the buzzed-about new movie "Food, Inc." This movie is said to advance the converstion about our food systems as much as did Michael Pollan's "Omnivore's Dilemma."
For a peek at that interview, and clips from the movie, see:
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/523/index.html
And also on the food news front, a "US Doctors' association calls for Moratorium on GMO Foods":
In a press release dated May 19, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, ‘an international association of physicians and other professionals dedicated to addressing the clinical aspects of environmental health,’ called immediately for the following emergency measures to be taken regarding human consumption of GMO foods:
* A moratorium on GMO food; implementation of immediate long term safety testing and labelling of GMO food.
* Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community and the public to avoid GMO foods.
* Physicians to consider the role of GMO foods in their patients' disease processes.
* More independent long term scientific studies to begin gathering data to investigate the role of GMO foods on human health.
The AAEM chairperson, Dr Amy Dean notes that ‘Multiple animal studies have shown that GM foods cause damage to various organ systems in the body. With this mounting evidence, it is imperative to have a moratorium on GM foods for the safety of our patients' and the public's health.’ The President of the AAEM, Dr Jennifer Armstrong stressed that ‘Physicians are probably seeing the effects in their patients, but need to know how to ask the right questions. The most common foods in North America which are consumed that are GMO are corn, soy, canola, and cottonseed oil.’ The AAEM's position paper on Genetically Modified foods can be found at http:aaemonline.org.
http://financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2009/0521.html
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Finally, a strong local food interest is gathering speed. Various groups - chefs, growers, reps of community groups, planners and more, coordinated by NC Cooperative Extension - are gathering to further connect consumers - you - with fresh local food and local growers. This effort also keeps surrounding land in open, green farmland.
I'm on a Local Food Council committee to help compile an email list of folks interested in good, local eating - to let consumers of fresh, local vegetables and fruits know when things are ripening and available. Since you all are among the most interested and faithful consumers of fresh-local that I know of, I'd like to offer them my list of 300+ . Someday before the end of the year, you'll get an email about it with an option to unsubscribe. If you have strong feelings about that now, let me know.
As always, Have a great week!
With enthusiasm,
Jan and Michael
Cottage Garden Farm
Southern Pines, NC
Fresh - Local - Organic
Mr.GreenJeans Lawn and Garden - 695-5162
and now, Bountiful Backyards of Moore - 692-8801
But first...
Enjoying the local strawberries, early tomatoes, peaches, sweet corn, creamer potatoes, raspberries, herbs, chard, blueberries and, soon, the blackberries of summer?
Have you picked your first tomato yet?
(We did, an "Early Girl," ten days ago, eaten on - what else - a mater sandwich with a crack of pepper, some smoked turkey and avocado).
The yellow squash, green peppers, garlic and zucchini are starting to ripen and find their way into the kitchen, with the green beans, sweet potatoes, okra and eggplant are gathering speed. Every meal is tasty vegetable abundance.
And also, with gathering speed, come the weeds and garden bugs. I left for a week to visit my brother in Wisconsin, and when I returned last week, I found a chewed up jungle!So much chaos in so little time!
So! How to right things?
I wanted to put out this newsletter quickly, so all you gardeners (or wannabe gardeners) could learn to weather this most satisfying and also the most trying period of the summer garden.
It's hot, it's buggy, it's weedy - but the fruits and veggies of your labors are beginning to be offered in abundance as well.
Come celebrate with cooperative extension agent Taylor Williams this Thursday evening at 5:30 at First Garden Armory park (the site of the Thursday Farmers Market on Morganton Rd. in Southern Pines - park and walk up the hill to the community garden).
The clinic will last an hour or so, with time for questions.
Bring your problem vegetable children and let Taylor diagnose and offer solutions, and see the community garden in action.
Tell your friends, okay? This is short notice.
No registration required for this free clinic, but if you have questions, call 947-3188 See you there!
PS (A clinic on Fall Gardens will be offered in the un-fall-ish month of July (gotta think ahead).
FALL IS OFTEN THE BEST TIME TO GARDEN HERE IN THE SANDHILLS, AS THE PEST PRESSURE DECLINE RAPIDLY.
Mark Thursday, July 16, 5:30 PM at the Armory - same time, same place - on your calender).
-------------
Also, right after this clinic - that is, also this Thursday - Sustainable Sandhills will be offering the movie "King Corn" for your viewing pleasure, 6:30, at the Dempsey Center at Sandhills Community College.
"King Corn" examines exactly what is in the food on our shelves, and the implications for our health. It is eye-opening.
These films are presented for the community to watch and stimulate discussion about Sustainability in our communities.
See you there!
----------------------------------------------------------------
Speaking of the food we eat, PBS recently did an interesting piece of the buzzed-about new movie "Food, Inc." This movie is said to advance the converstion about our food systems as much as did Michael Pollan's "Omnivore's Dilemma."
For a peek at that interview, and clips from the movie, see:
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/523/index.html
And also on the food news front, a "US Doctors' association calls for Moratorium on GMO Foods":
In a press release dated May 19, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, ‘an international association of physicians and other professionals dedicated to addressing the clinical aspects of environmental health,’ called immediately for the following emergency measures to be taken regarding human consumption of GMO foods:
* A moratorium on GMO food; implementation of immediate long term safety testing and labelling of GMO food.
* Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community and the public to avoid GMO foods.
* Physicians to consider the role of GMO foods in their patients' disease processes.
* More independent long term scientific studies to begin gathering data to investigate the role of GMO foods on human health.
The AAEM chairperson, Dr Amy Dean notes that ‘Multiple animal studies have shown that GM foods cause damage to various organ systems in the body. With this mounting evidence, it is imperative to have a moratorium on GM foods for the safety of our patients' and the public's health.’ The President of the AAEM, Dr Jennifer Armstrong stressed that ‘Physicians are probably seeing the effects in their patients, but need to know how to ask the right questions. The most common foods in North America which are consumed that are GMO are corn, soy, canola, and cottonseed oil.’ The AAEM's position paper on Genetically Modified foods can be found at http:aaemonline.org.
http://financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2009/0521.html
------------------------------ ---
Finally, a strong local food interest is gathering speed. Various groups - chefs, growers, reps of community groups, planners and more, coordinated by NC Cooperative Extension - are gathering to further connect consumers - you - with fresh local food and local growers. This effort also keeps surrounding land in open, green farmland.
I'm on a Local Food Council committee to help compile an email list of folks interested in good, local eating - to let consumers of fresh, local vegetables and fruits know when things are ripening and available. Since you all are among the most interested and faithful consumers of fresh-local that I know of, I'd like to offer them my list of 300+ . Someday before the end of the year, you'll get an email about it with an option to unsubscribe. If you have strong feelings about that now, let me know.
As always, Have a great week!
With enthusiasm,
Jan and Michael
Cottage Garden Farm
Southern Pines, NC
Fresh - Local - Organic
Mr.GreenJeans Lawn and Garden - 695-5162
and now, Bountiful Backyards of Moore - 692-8801
6/15/2009
6/12/2009
King Corn Coming to SCC!
REMINDER
Moore County Sustainable Film Series
Thursday, June 18th, 6:30-8pm | Sandhills Community College, Dempsey Student Center, Clement Dining Room
Our Next Film: “King Corn: You Are What You Eat” - Click here for movie trailer.
Sustainable Sandhills will be showing the third film in our Film Series focused on sustainability-related topics. The desire of Sustainable Sandhills is to heighten public awareness of pressing sustainability issues and to encourage community dialogue following each film. The next film in our sustainable film series is the award winning documentary, “King Corn”. The film documents two best friends from college that plant and acre of corn and follow it into our food system. I think everyone will be surprised as to what they find. You truly are what you eat! “King Corn” will be shown Thursday, June 18th, at Sandhills Community College's Dempsey Student Center, upstairs in the Clement Dining Room from 6:30-8:00 PM.
The Film Series is held on a bi-monthly schedule, alternating with the Sustainable Sandhills Moore County Community Action Team Meetings. Each film will be aired from 6:30-8:00 PM at the same location, and the remaining 2009 revised schedule is as follows: August 20th, October 22nd, and December 10th.
Bring the family! All ages are invited to attend and it’s FREE!!! We look forward to seeing you there!
Moore County Sustainable Film Series
Thursday, June 18th, 6:30-8pm | Sandhills Community College, Dempsey Student Center, Clement Dining Room
Our Next Film: “King Corn: You Are What You Eat” - Click here for movie trailer.
Sustainable Sandhills will be showing the third film in our Film Series focused on sustainability-related topics. The desire of Sustainable Sandhills is to heighten public awareness of pressing sustainability issues and to encourage community dialogue following each film. The next film in our sustainable film series is the award winning documentary, “King Corn”. The film documents two best friends from college that plant and acre of corn and follow it into our food system. I think everyone will be surprised as to what they find. You truly are what you eat! “King Corn” will be shown Thursday, June 18th, at Sandhills Community College's Dempsey Student Center, upstairs in the Clement Dining Room from 6:30-8:00 PM.
The Film Series is held on a bi-monthly schedule, alternating with the Sustainable Sandhills Moore County Community Action Team Meetings. Each film will be aired from 6:30-8:00 PM at the same location, and the remaining 2009 revised schedule is as follows: August 20th, October 22nd, and December 10th.
Bring the family! All ages are invited to attend and it’s FREE!!! We look forward to seeing you there!
6/10/2009
6/09/2009
Home-made Soda Pop
http://www.cheeseslave.com/2009/06/05/how-to-make-homemade-soda-pop-with-kefir-grains/
5/13/2009
Pollan on Eating Well
Here's a sampling of Michael Pollan's rules of how to eat well:
Avoid food products that contain ingredients that are unfamiliar, unpronounceable, more than five in number or include high-fructose corn syrup.
Avoid products that make health claims.
Shop in the peripheries of the supermarket, where the fresh food is; avoid the middle, where processed food resides.
Eat meals, not snacks.
Eat plants, especially leaves.
Don't get your fuel from the same place as your car gets its gas.
Eat slowly, at a table, and try not to eat alone.
Avoid food products that contain ingredients that are unfamiliar, unpronounceable, more than five in number or include high-fructose corn syrup.
Avoid products that make health claims.
Shop in the peripheries of the supermarket, where the fresh food is; avoid the middle, where processed food resides.
Eat meals, not snacks.
Eat plants, especially leaves.
Don't get your fuel from the same place as your car gets its gas.
Eat slowly, at a table, and try not to eat alone.
HFCS, It's Everywhere. Read the Label
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2008/dec2008_Metabolic-Dangers-of-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup_01.htm
3/10/2009
2/14/2009
High Fructose Corn Syrup + Mercury
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/14/Most-Common-Source-of-Calories-in-US-is-LOADED-With-Mercury.aspx
2/10/2009
Diseases Linked to Soft Drinks
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/10/10-Diseases-Linked-To-Soda.aspx
7/29/2008
Marketing Junk to Kids
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080729/children_ads_080729/20080729?hub=Health
5/25/2008
Are You Manipulated by Corn?
http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2008/05/michael-pollan-omnivore-next-dilemma.html
5/22/2008
5/15/2008
Not Guilt, but Anger
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_051508E.shtml
[And the movie, King Corn, is now available thru Netflix. The more we learn, the more powerful we become.]
[And the movie, King Corn, is now available thru Netflix. The more we learn, the more powerful we become.]
2/15/2008
6/01/2007
Vote With Your Pocketbook
Ocean Spray now has high fructose corn syrup in it. Please tell Ocean Spray (at www.oceanspray.com, contact us) what you think of high fructose corn syrup. I have contacted them and will blog their response. Maureen
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