Entries Tagged as ‘food and drinks’

14 June, 2009

Food on Friday 6/12/09

So Friday was my first day of Ph”ood’ journaling.  I must say it is kind of fun to see peoples funny looks at work going “why are you taking pictures of your lunch?”

Breakfast was unfortunately grabbed on the sly via the local Starbucks, and while the fruit looks good it was pretty much either under [...]

11 June, 2009

Ph”ood” Journaling

Wow, things have been a little crazy around here lately and I am afraid the blog was backburnered a bit but I haven’t stopped working on things and I have been thinking about ways to make this blog more useful for myself as well as fun to read.
The one thing that I haven’t been able [...]

30 January, 2009

HFCS Comes with a Free Order of Mercury!

I know you probably don’t really need another reason why HFCS is bad for you but here is one anyway.
It turns out that the caustic soda used to refine HFCS often contains Mercury from when it was manufactured and it is passing this “tasty treat” on to the foods that are sweetened with it. The [...]

19 January, 2009

In the Kitchen: Millet

One of the main tenants of healthy eating is eat your whole grains. Whole grains are amazing things, they have tons of fiber and important vitamins and minerals. Most of these this reside in the husk of most grains and this is removed when grains are refined into flours and other products, which is sad [...]

15 January, 2009

What’s in your “Water”

Coke is being sued for claiming health benefits on the labels of their VitaminWater Brand bottled drinks, check out the article.
It may just be me but water isn’t supposed to have 33 grams of sugar in it, at least the last time I checked.
There are a lot of sports drinks out there that make a [...]