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Are you eating too much “highly” processed food?

By / Nutrition / May 26, 2015 / 2 Comments

  Which of the foods in the picture is a processed food?  TRICK QUESTION!! All of them are.  I’ve posted before about how we need to be more specific in defining the term “processed food”.  Almost everything we eat is processed.  Some of that processing is good, since it makes food safer to eat, such …

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Healthy on a Budget

By / Nutrition / October 8, 2014 / 1 Comment

A recent Freakonomics podcast discussed research on trends for people who buy store brands versus name brands in various products.  Some of these products were food and drink – sugar, salt, baking soda, etc.  Chefs were slightly more likely to buy store brands than the average consumer. I found this podcast very interesting based on my …

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