Category: nutrition
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Headlines Like This Make Me SO glad I Learned To Science
Five years ago, the headline below would have scared me. Today it makes me take pause and look for supportive data and additional information. What a fundamental change that is indeed. (Full article associated with this headline here) One of the first things I ran across when googling ‘splenda leukemia’ was this Op Ed…
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Sleuth4Health Goes Soylent
Ever heard of Soylent? I’m not talking about Charlton Heston’s chilling revelation that – Soylent green is people – it’s people! – at the end of the classic sci-fi flick of the same name. That movie was based on a novel called Make room! Make room! by Harry Harrison. In the novel, ‘soylent’ was a…
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Let The Costly Irrationality Begin
Things are heating up in my home state of Oregon. This is the first of likely several more posts I will make regarding the upcoming election. I am specifically referring to ballot measure 92 which will appear on the November ballot, the campaign to label GM foods – only in Oregon, a state with a…
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An Amusing Look At Food Science?
5/27 – Headline changed from An Amusing Look at Science to An Amusing Look at Food Science This article has been thoroughly edited and updated since its original posting. After some serious reflection on the entire video I posted below, I shifted my opinion quite a bit – to the point of agreeing with the…
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Who Ya Gonna Call?
In keeping with my recent posts of a series of brief videos on singular topics concerning GMOs, here are the next three installments. The interviews are conducted between Green State TV and University of Florida plant geneticist Dr. Kevin Folta. Part 6: A compact exploration of the term “frankenfood” and what it really means. Part…
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100 Year Tribute to Norman Borlaug
Today I am passing the word and sharing a video about a 100 year tribute to an agricultural luminary and nobel peace prize winner – Norman Borlaug. I admit that before my journey across both sides of the GMO issue, I didn’t know who Norman Borlaug was. Now, I do. What would Norman say in…
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Excellent, Compact Interviews on the topic of GMOs
Awhile back I did a two-part video interview series regarding my views on GMOs with Greenstate TV. You can view parts one and two (in reverse order) here and here. Today I am posting Greenstate TV interviews with two other people whom I admire greatly. Specifically these two were absolutely instrumental in my realization that…
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This Graphic Is Really Bugging Me
Okay. I’ve seen this graphic one too many times and I feel compelled to counteract its very misleading and frankly, naive, message. While in the science community it does little more than evoke chortles and eye-rolling, it is nonetheless a meme shared by hundreds of thousands of well-meaning but sadly under-informed consumers who place halos…
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What Is a ‘Natural’ or ‘Whole’ Food – Exactly?
These three graphics came from a blog by James Kennedy, a British chemistry teacher living in Australia. Here is his explanation for creating the posters: As a Chemistry teacher, I want to erode the fear that many people have of “chemicals”, and demonstrate that nature evolves compounds, mechanisms and structures far more complicated and unpredictable…
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What If Labels Could Educate?
Series: The Benevolent Side of GMOs I wish I could say this headline is mine: Embrace The Biotech In Your Basket. It is not, and I can’t improve upon it. I found the article for this post in a South African blog called Food Stuff. It is written by Dr Leon Van Eck, a…