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      Food Safety Concerns in China

      January 6, 2012 /

      Food safety in China continues to be a concern as more and more overseas foodstuffs continue to enter the American consumer market.

      The food safety regulator in Shenzhen said it had found excessive levels of aflatoxin in peanuts sold in three stores, and in cooking oil in four restaurants, the official Xinhua news agency said late Friday.

      Milk was at the centre of one of China’s biggest food safety scandals in 2008 when the industrial chemical melamine was found to have been illegally added to dairy products to give the appearance of higher protein content.

      At least six babies died and another 300,000 became ill after drinking milk tainted with the chemical.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Resources, Wellness

      Addressing America’s Growing Waistline

      January 5, 2012 /

      Americans are fat and getting fatter.

      And the solutions to the problem are a pretty tall order.

      “Altering the way society is organized” may be effective in addressing the problem but is it a viable solution?

      Consider all the special interests benefitting from the system as it is now, from factory farms to tobacco companies, who is willing to be “re-organized”?

      First lady Michelle Obama has made healthy eating her special project and hopefully she can bring national attention to growing problem.

      The problem for the country echoes the problem for individuals: Willpower is not enough. “(It’s a) basic instinct, even stronger than the sexual instinct, to store calories to survive the next period of starvation. And we live in an environment where there’s food every half mile. It’s tasty, cheap, convenient, and you can eat it with one hand.”
      Thus says Martijn Katan of the Institute of Health Sciences at VU University in Amsterdam, author of one of the many studies on the limits of dieting, quoted in U.S. News & World Report.
      If you as an individual want to change your weight, you must change your whole life. Likewise, to reduce obesity in modern society, we will have to alter the way society is organized.

      Health Care Policy, Nutrition

      Health Care Reform Battle Begins

      January 5, 2012 /

      Health Care reform has been sparking rather heated debates from both sides of the aisle and from every other possible direction, it seems.

      There has been no consensus on a number of key topics; cancer screening and cell phone dangers and mandatory compliance is set to be enforced by 2014.

      There is a lot of work to be done and special interests will have their hands full lobbying for their stake in the game.

      Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which President Obama signed into law in 2010, claim the legislation will extend coverage to 30 million Americans. But opponents labeled it an unconstitutional intrusion of government upon personal rights, especially the “individual mandate” clause that requires Americans to purchase health insurance or face fines.

      Health Care Policy, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare

      The Science Behind Breaking Bad Habits

      January 4, 2012 /

      You can’t help discussing habits in the season of resolutions to change or break them.

      We all start out with such strong resolve but often times fail to recognize the triggers that make us cave.

      “Once a behavior had been repeated a lot, especially if the person does it in the same setting, you can successfully change what people want to do. But if they’ve done it enough, their behavior doesn’t follow their intentions,” Neal explains.

      Neal says this has to do with the way that over time, our physical environments come to shape our behavior.

      “People, when they perform a behavior a lot — especially in the same environment, same sort of physical setting — outsource the control of the behavior to the environment,” Neal says.

      Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      Eating for Your Age

      January 4, 2012 /

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      Eating for your age?

      Folic acid during your child bearing years to prevent birth defects, calcium and iron in your 30’s for bone health and energy and foods to ease the effects of menopause and memory loss.

      Watch this video to see how your nutritional needs change as you age and how certain foods can help you face the challenges of aging gracefully.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Research, Wellness

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