Many of the foods we eat today are deep fried; we eat a lot of french fries, fried chicken, even fried vegetables. Unfortunately, most of the oils we use to fry with are partially hydrogenated oils. Partially hydrogenated oils are bad because they lead to diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity. Most partially hydrogenated oils are made from soybean oil. Soybean oil is partly to blame for our country's obesity ...

A recent study published in the journal Thorax has linked eating burgers to a higher risk of asthma in children. The researchers studied 50,000 children from 20 different countries. Interestingly enough, the results varied based on how rich the country was. Parents of the participating children were asked to describe their children's diets and if they had ever been diagnosed with asthma or experienced breathing difficulties such as wheezing or shortness ...

Once again, the food industry is claiming that consumers are too stupid to understand what ingredients on a label mean. This time, The Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the FDA; they are requesting permission to change the name from “High Fructose Corn Syrup”  to “corn sugar”. Seriously? What do they think changing the name will do? We still know how bad HFCS is for us; our bodies still don’t metabolize the ...