Major Junk Food Company Collapses
Dr. Mercola – In recent years, Nestlé, Kraft, Mars, Campbell Soup Co. and others have quit GMA, as it was increasingly perceived as being out of touch with consumer sentiments.
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Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death
Olivia Rosane – So many foods in the standard American diet are absolutely toxic.
Dollar Stores Feed More Americans than Whole Foods
Dr. Mercola – Can you and your family afford to buy quality food in today’s America?
Childhood Obesity Rates Expected to Grow 10-Fold by 2020
Christina Sarich -What is really happening to our children?
How Scientists Engineer Foods to Make Them Dangerously Addictive
Alex Pietrowski – There is a reason why you can’t stop eating snack foods.
The Dangers of Processed Foods Exposed in Numerous Studies
Anna Hunt – Ultra-processed foods are the main culprit of obesity and other diseases.
This Diet is Scientifically Proven to Massively Increase the Risk of Depression
Heather Callaghan – The more fast food you consume, the greater the risk of depression.
Junk Food Eating Generations Can Pass Metabolic Disorders To Their Children
Mae Chan – Can parents’ junk food consumption at the time of conception affect the health of their child?
10 Similarities Between Sugar, Junk Food and Abusive Drugs
Kris Gunnars – Here are 10 disturbing similarities between sugar, junk food and abusive drugs.
3 Young Entrepreneurs Find Revolutionary Way to Cut Out Food Waste
Cole Mellino – Food waste is a serious problem. An estimated 30-50 percent of food is wasted globally. Check out what these young people are doing about it.
Study: Junk Food more Deadly than War, Famine, Genocide
Christina Sarich – You may already know that junk food is bad for your health, but you may not realize how bad it can be.
Do You Really Want to Eat Hot Dogs After Knowing This?
Dr. Mercola Waking Times The hot dog is one of America’s most popular foods, with the average person consuming 50 of them per year. Hot dogs are one of the most nutritionally bankrupt foods. Yet for decades, they’ve been given a free pass, granted one pardon after another thanks to their towering status in American …
Junk Food Encoded in Children’s DNA and Beyond
Heather Callaghan, Contributor Waking Times New study ponders impact of Western food and GMOs on posterity’s genes… Through the emerging information from epigenetics – the study of environmental exposure on genes – it becomes apparent that we are not the body equivalent to Las Vegas. What happens to us doesn’t stay with us – it …
Brain Imaging Study Confirms Addictive Nature of Processed Carbs
Dr. Mercola Waking Times A staggering two-thirds of Americans are now overweight, and one in four are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. Carb-rich processed foods are a primary driver of these statistics, and while many blame Americans’ overindulgence of processed junk foods on lack of self-control, scientists are now starting to reveal the truly addictive nature of such foods. Most recently, …
Addiction To Junk Food: More Than Meets The Eye
Eleni Roumeliotou, Green Med Info Waking Times When it comes to processed food, excessive amounts of sugar and hydrogenated fats is the rule rather than the exception. It is no secret anymore that there is a very distinct thread linking the increased consumption of such foods, coupled with relentless advertising campaigns and the epidemic proportions of diabetes …
7 Highly Disturbing Trends in Junk Food Advertising to Children
Laura Gottesdiener, AlterNet Waking Times From bribing children with toys to convincing them to eat a “fourth meal,” the industry is glutted with perverse, profit-chasing schemes. Ever wonder why one-third of all children in the United States are overweight, if not dangerously obese? According to a slew of recent reports, the cornucopia of junk food …
Healthiest Foods Out of Reach For The Majority of The Population
Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times To say that the cost of healthy living is out of reach for most people would be an understatement. Low to middle-class subsets of the population have difficulty affording their own rent and mortgage payments let alone clean organic and unprocessed foods. Nutritionally sound chemical-free diets have achieved many …
Brazil Introduces Legislation To Protect Public Health From Processed Foods
Prevent Disease The Brazilian government has introduced legislation to protect and improve its traditional food system, standing in contrast to the governments of many industrialized countries that have partly surrendered their prime duty to protect public health to transnational food companies, argue nutrition and public health experts writing in this week’s PLoS Medicine. Carlos Monteiro and …
Is Junk Food For The Poor Better Than Nothing?
Tania Melkonian Waking Times Anyone behind me in line at the supermarket check-out would think me uncharitable. The cashier asks,‘Would you like to donate a meal to the X house for the poor?’ Naturally, it is deliberate that her script obliges that any answer other than an enthusiastic ‘Oh, yes please! I would love nothing more!’ renders …
Do Hidden Opiates In Our Food Explain Food Addictions?
Food addictions are not strictly “psychological” problems, but have a hard-wired, organic component. Many of the most commonly consumed foods in Western culture actually contain narcotic properties associated with the presence of psychoactive chemicals that bind to opioid receptors in the nervous system.