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Pediatric Electrolytes: Mom, what do you pay for?
Yesterday I have stopped by at a local CVS where I spotted a variety of Pediatric Electrolyte bottles. Knowing what a horrible chemical cocktail Pedialyte is I decided to check out these electrolytes designed for our children 1 year of age and older: “Child should drink 1 to 2 liters per day…” Let’s see what […]
Great Value Cherry Chemical Mix: Why this is not a crime?
America has been on increasing nutritional deficiency for some four decades. This can be the core reason for present spiraling national health crisis. From one side, you find sugar in every kind of foods, drinks, seasonings, sauces, etc. From another, artificial sweeteners are offered as a false solution for those who are hooked up on […]
Juicy Juice is not bad for children
Juicy Juice is a brand of juices and juice punches marketed to children and sold in the United States by Nestlé using the slogan “The very best juice for the very best kids” and “Growing Up Healthy at Every Stage.” The good news is that there are NO toxic food additives to avoid in the […]
How The American Way Kills American Life
Ignorance is what kills. The below are quotations from an excellent educational book “Fast Food Nation. The Dark Side of the All-American Meal” by Eric Schlosser. A praise for the book left by The Daily Telegraph (London) says: “Eric Schlosser’s book on the economy and strategies of the fast food business should be read by anyone […]
Jelly Belly Orange Slices: One more nutritious candy!
Candy is just a flavored sugar by definition. But should the flavor and color always come with potentially health damaging chemicals like azo-compounds? No, no, no. Nevertheless, overwhelming majority of candies in the United States is of exactly such a miserable kind: sugar artificially flavored and artificially colored with strange chemicals that are incompatible with […]
Doritos Cool Ranch: 25 ingredients for flavor
Recently I have recommended Tostitos Scoops of the Frito Lay, a division of PepsiCo, Inc., with no artificial anything and made with only 3 ingredients: corn, vegetable oil and salt. Doritos is a brand of seasoned junk food chips produced since 1964 by the Frito-Lay. Here is another bag of corn chips from the Frito […]
7 Up Diet soda: Chemicals on top of chemicals
Here is a piece of history from Wikipedia which helps to understand how the drink has been transformed from its original lemon-lime soda to its modern chemical concoction. 7 Up has been reformulated several times since its launch in 1929. In 2006, the version of the product sold in the U.S. was reformulated so that […]
Sunkist Strawberry soda: Another red swill
Sadly, in the strictly profit-driven economy morality is voluntary. Yes, morality is a free choice which not every manufacturer has to follow. For this reason we see this pathetic bright-red Sunkist Strawberry soda containing no strawberry being sold in the market. So what is in it? Well, there is nothing exciting to say the list. […]
Wonka Candy Cane: Artificial Flavor of Christmas
First candy cane came to existence in 1670 when choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral (Germany) wanted to calm noisy children during Christmas Eve by treating them to the candies. He asked a local candy maker to make some sweet sticks for them. I don’t know what were that original candies made of but modern candy canes […]
School shootings: How Can American Food Lead to American Blood
While America has been painfully recovering from recent fatal shooting in Oregon mall yet another blood spill tragedy has deeply shocked the nation even worse when another kid, Adam Lanza, believed “suffered from a personality disorder,” silently shot 20 little children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Although grief and […]
