Do You Really Want to Use Commercial Cream?

re: Do You Really Want to Use Commercial Cream?

drlaga — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:39:55 GMT

When you're choosing between "Half n Half" and Light [dairy] Cream, choose the light dairy cream! It has half a gram less saturated fat than the half n half!

When choosing ice cream and you have the option of Breyer's, read the labels carefully as you remember the early Breyer ads with the kids commenting on the 3 key ingredients of milk, cream and sugar plus natural flavor--eg vanilla, chocoalte, coffee and the original fruit flavors of strawberry, peach etc. When Unilever bought out Breyer's, Unilever started to make a greater variety of junk ice cream and added corn syrup as well as a chemical feast of other products. I'd urge you to write to Unilever and ask it to stop desecrating an originally "fair" product [as far as healthier ice creams go]. Thankfully, Unilever has not desecrated the earlier formulas to which I just referred.

While on the subject of milk products.... I know that Dr Mercola prefers raw milk. But when considering yogurts-- in New England anyway--Stonyfield Plain NonFat or LowFat Yogurt with many strains of probiotics is your best bet. I also give a teaspoonful to my 1 year old cat about 3 times a week as a treat which is good for his GI tract.

Holistically,

Dr Tom Laga

PhD Counselor in Nutrition, Fitness, Stresscare

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Jenleigh — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:04:04 GMT

ChefTodd,

Thanks for the encouragement! He did really well over the weekend, and this morning he actually packed himself a really healthy lunch for work. I am very hopeful :)

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Dr. Lori — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:59:08 GMT

Not to get off topic here, but what really gets me is that on the "All natural, no preservatives" baby foods, why is there an expiration date of like 2010?? There's no way something with no preservatives will last that long!!

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saynotoquacks — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:10:25 GMT

Dr. Mercola, I didn't know you drank coffee! It's a powerful psychoactive drug, very addictive, that ends up draining your dopamine. My dad's in the process of detoxing from a more-than-30-year coffee addiction. He's tapering but still has headaches, weakness, fatigue and all that. Anything addictive that causes withdrawal symptoms like that is BAD for you. I'm glad he's quitting it finally.

I'd avoid all drugs as well as that toxic waste that passes as "food" in our world!

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pwj — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:30:48 GMT

This kind of deceptive labelling should be controlled by the FDA. Another example is the plethora of products, many targeting children, which advertise "25 % less sugar" in large letters. Parents think that there is just less sugar. Sucralose or Splenda is in the fine print amongst 20 or 30 other ingredients. They have to put Nutrasweet on the label because of its known effect on some people. They know nothing about these new ones and they are sneaking it into the children.

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gogirl — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:50:04 GMT

One must also check the Half and Half label. Some of it contains added ingredients, i.e. contains more than milk and cream.

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backtobasics — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:46:54 GMT

"Contains milk" is a disclaimer for anyone who has allergies to "milk". May look like a deception in food labeling, but "sodium caseinate" is from milk. The food company trying to cover its behind!

Just read the label carefully and you won't have a problem if you know what is in your food--if not then stay away from it!

Also, please stop making PERSONAL comments about Luci's looks on vitalvotes--hello! they are sickening...and yes I agree with others that I would like to see REAL recipes that use REAL wholesome foods that MERCOLA talks about on his site--using a juicer for smoothies, veggie shakes, etc and cooking with butter or coconut oil....etc...not a bland chicken (yes the Aroma oven was impressive) and not a video about things that MERCOLA already has said in various sites himself--stay away from chemical food additives!

Then again this is not about me, but reaching the public, so someone could be reached by looking at a video than reading info..

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nohotdogs — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:27:58 GMT

maybe folks should buy a book on food additives and then start reading labels and comparing ingredients.

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papamaui — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:53:53 GMT

I used to tell my friends, "Learn to read labels!" and then I'd tell them a long list of things to avoid. For some, it was a turn-off for sure!

Now I just keep it simple. I tell them, "If it has a label, don't buy it!"

There are exceptions of course. Bread is one. Even the finest organic multi-grain bread must by law have a label.

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cherichericheri — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:10:02 GMT

This comment is in reply to Matt79: you are right about the order in which we were commanded to eat. I personally believe that the command to eat meat came because we lost the canopy of water around the earth, and the water that was deep under the earth probably close to the core. It had never rained before the flood we just did not have that kind of atmosphere or weather system. This would have enclosed the earth and insulated it giving us a different weather system, and protecting us from radiation because it would have acted as a filter.

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savagesteve13 — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:42:04 GMT

I just use powdered milk. Its really really cheap, I think because nobody buys it.

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Negdub — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:43:28 GMT

As a related matter regarding food additives, while I was in the US recently, I used coffee creamer. Big mistake. Apart from being far too sweet, when I checked the ingredients list, amongst other chemicals, was listed aluminum silicate and titanium. Why on earth would you voluntarily put these metals in your body?? I drank my coffee black for the rest of my trip.

Boy, these manufacturer have a got a great deal to answer for.

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mom2nine — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:42:38 GMT

I found some years ago that although I have no allergic-type reaction to dairy products, if I ate any of the non-dairy creamy products I would start with a scratchy throat within fifteen minutes and by the end of an hour had all the symptoms of a full-blown head cold. A little digging around helped me find the culprit: casein (in the case of the ingredients in that foamy stuff, sodium caseinate). Apparently this milk-based protein is used in many non-dairy products to make it taste milky/creamy. I'm guessing it's like a megadose of dairy products, which is probably enough to oversensitize anyone! So no more capucchino mix, etc. for me anymore. I'm seeing more and more baked goods with this added as well.

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dressagefreak — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:17:50 GMT

^ Ewww...

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curious7 — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:06:46 GMT

I have always told people around me that the increase in diseases is due to our change from farm fresh foods, to imported, and most especially factory foods. In essence nutritionally dead food, which has led to this rocketing increase in obesity. You know artificial this, and artificial that, not unlike the subject of this article.

Big business will argue their foods are in good nutritional standing, but the more you look around and see people who micro-wave this, and that you also see the negative side effects.

Our diets must be composed mostly raw, and I know many do not agree, but absent of animal products. There is nothing we cannot get from a plant based diet, that makes the killing of animals necessary for the purpose of food. Eating flesh is not only unnecessary, bu unhealthy.

At the same time we need to beware the laboratory foods, secret death. It is all about money.