Entries from April 2008

April 30, 2008

Walmart: Your First Choice for Organic Food???

Diets explained has moved!

Hey everyone,
I have recently decided to transfer the content of my fitness site (http://fitnessmadesimple.wordpress.com) and my diet/nutrition site (http://dietsexplained.wordpress.com/) to my new blog:
http://healthhabits.wordpress.com/
I was getting a lot of questions on topics other than diet and fitness training. With a more general health blog, I can focus on topics not specifically exercise or [...]

April 29, 2008

U.N., World Bank and IMF & their Food Riots

Over the last few days, representatives of the U.N. met with 27 international agency heads in the Swiss capital, Bern, to chart a solution to food price rises that have caused hunger, riots and hoarding in poor countries.
As reported by Reuters, the United Nations said today that “We consider that the dramatic escalation in food [...]

April 28, 2008

Book Prize for the 100 Mile Diet

On April 21, I wrote a review of the 100 Mile Diet.
In today’s Vancouver Sun, Rebecca Wigod reports that The 100 Mile Diet has won a British Columbia book prize. The book won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and was also a finalist for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Congratulations to the authors, J.B. MacKinnon and [...]

April 24, 2008

Test tube meat

PETA is offering a $1 million prize to the scientist who can MacGyver commercially viable meat in a laboratory.
Let that sink in. I will wait….
mmm mm mmm mmm mmm mm mm mmm mmm …theme from Jeopardy…
This has to be a joke, right?
As reported in this article, “the reward would go to the first scientist to [...]

April 22, 2008

Re-name the Bagel-ful

While I am sure that Kraft spent a bazillion dollars coming up with the perfect name for this engineered food-type product, I think I can do better.
How about you?
Here is what I came up with:
Bagel-ful-of-goo
Bagel-ful-of-artificial cheese product
Bagel-ful-of-chemicals & preservatives
Bagel-ful-of-impaired insulin sensitivity
Bagel-ful-of-why-is-my-butt-so-big
Bagel-ful-of-my-mom-is-to-lazy-to-even-make-a-real-sandwich
Bagel-ful-of-crap
(pardonnez moi mon francais)
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