Mums rule!
August 30th 2008 06:19
Category: In the magazines
Australian Healthy Food tells us that mothers are starting to distrust packaged food!
89% don't trust the claims on food packages - and who would with milo cereal being pushed as a great healthy food for kids when it's mostly sugar
73% believe food authorities are not doing enough to regulate food additives - and that regulation is possibly a bit suspect anyway, can we can 'aspartame'?
85% are worried about food additives - Donna Gates and Natasha McBryde take all the additives out of autistic kids' diets, add some good old fashioned fermented foods, and (gasp) the autism improves....
78% percent make a real effort to avoid food additives - well I know I do, but what about the additives they don't have to tell us about, the stuff that's less than .5% that doesn't have to be listed on the label?
90% now read labels more often - has anyone else noticed that we're now starting to see TLAs (three-letter-acronyms) on labels instead of the longwinded tonguetwister chemical names? My daughter was looking for gluten free choccie for her room mate the other day and had to phone me to google the TLAs so she could tell if the stuff had gluten in it or not! what the?
77% worry about what's in the fruit and vegetables eaten - no wonder, with more than 40,000 chemicals added to our food chain since the 1940s. What the? I heard an interview on the radio with a food scientist and an organic farming advocate, and the food scientist said that the allowable quantities of chemicals in food were like a million times less than the known safe limits (could have been a different number than a million, it was a while ago). There was no discussion about the interaction between all the chemicals though, how could that possibly be tested? Or is it being tested, on the population at large?
I'm fairly sure that obesity isn't about the food, or the exercise. Could it be about food additives? or maybe petrochemicals in food from packaging mimicing natural hormones and causing epigenetic chaos in the body? Maybe a combination of this and more?
89% don't trust the claims on food packages - and who would with milo cereal being pushed as a great healthy food for kids when it's mostly sugar
73% believe food authorities are not doing enough to regulate food additives - and that regulation is possibly a bit suspect anyway, can we can 'aspartame'?
85% are worried about food additives - Donna Gates and Natasha McBryde take all the additives out of autistic kids' diets, add some good old fashioned fermented foods, and (gasp) the autism improves....
78% percent make a real effort to avoid food additives - well I know I do, but what about the additives they don't have to tell us about, the stuff that's less than .5% that doesn't have to be listed on the label?
90% now read labels more often - has anyone else noticed that we're now starting to see TLAs (three-letter-acronyms) on labels instead of the longwinded tonguetwister chemical names? My daughter was looking for gluten free choccie for her room mate the other day and had to phone me to google the TLAs so she could tell if the stuff had gluten in it or not! what the?
77% worry about what's in the fruit and vegetables eaten - no wonder, with more than 40,000 chemicals added to our food chain since the 1940s. What the? I heard an interview on the radio with a food scientist and an organic farming advocate, and the food scientist said that the allowable quantities of chemicals in food were like a million times less than the known safe limits (could have been a different number than a million, it was a while ago). There was no discussion about the interaction between all the chemicals though, how could that possibly be tested? Or is it being tested, on the population at large?
I'm fairly sure that obesity isn't about the food, or the exercise. Could it be about food additives? or maybe petrochemicals in food from packaging mimicing natural hormones and causing epigenetic chaos in the body? Maybe a combination of this and more?
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