Are the Media Any Wiser About Health-Harming Processed Foods?

re: Are the Media Any Wiser About Health-Harming Processed Foods?

Nat — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:04:12 GMT

I have spent the past twenty eight years in television and the last eighteen years as host of a lifestyle show, trying to impart reliable information about optimum health and optimum nutrition. It's amazing how many "experts" are out there and it's amazing how little they know. I have spent the last fifteen years researching health and nutrition and it's hard to find common ground on many subjects. Not surprisingly, most of the confusion seems to come from the food industry, drug companies and so called health authorities. Unfortunately, your health is your responsibility.

re: Are the Media Any Wiser About Health-Harming Processed Foods?

Nat — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:59:06 GMT

The whole concept of optimum nutrition has been blown completely out of perspective and now appears too complicated for the average person to consider. Jack LaLanne said it well when he said; "If man made it, don't eat it." Nature has provided everything that we need and man has intervened, in order to make money. After all, it's all about the money, isn't it?

re: Are the Media Any Wiser About Health-Harming Processed Foods?

Dr. Matthew J. Loop — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:03:30 GMT

As long as the mainstream media and food industry conglomerates are fed by the same elite hand, I feel it is inaccurate to give the media credit for being wiser! With this powerful influence, the heavy hitting investigative journalism one can find on Dr. Mercola's site is likely to be kept from the masses as long as possible. A critically analytical and informed public is not good for business, silly rabbit!

re: Are the Media Any Wiser About Health-Harming Processed Foods?

mmc88121 — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:31:16 GMT

Very good article, as I was reading it I thought I have read all this before. It is most of the things you have said at one time or another on your website. Eat unprocessed foods as close to their natural state as possible. Eat a wide variety, especially your fruits and vegetables, meats and grains okay but not every day.

mmc88121

re: Are the Media Any Wiser About Health-Harming Processed Foods?

Russ Bianchi — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:55:22 GMT

Pollan's article goes a long way in explaining how badly the 'food chain' has been dumb-downed nutritionally in America, and other global locations adopting American dietary intake.

It's remarkable that this journalist, as Greg Crister is a journalist, and author of the easy to read and recommeded 'Fat Land: How America Became The Most Obese Nation', have a better street smarts, or common-sense approaches, to articulating the problem, as well as offering wholesome and good for you suggestions to better health.

Do not forget to read Dr. Mercola's SWEET DECEPTION also.

As a cautionary tale however, be careful that the jounalist gets it all correct.

In Pollan's book, he fails to make the link on refined corn based fructose, crystalline fructose, "glucose-fructose syrup" which is HFCS and deceptively mislabeled on the leading brand of sports beverage in America, and/or phony labeled attempts to hide refined fructose, like criminally fraudulaent 'agave', or chicory syrup, or undeclared and highly refined hydrolyzed high fructose inulin syrups.

Remember, these refined fructose products, WHICH ARE NOT THE SAME AS FRUIT SUGAR, (first of all, they are not from fruit; secondly, they have no nutrient values from vitamin, minerals or fiber from fruit; thirdly, all fruits are multi saccharide and non just one mono saccharide; and finally fruit sugars are metabolized to blood glucose for energy) are harmful.

Refined fructose (not fruit levulose in polairty or metabolization) is metabolize directly to triglycerides (LDL or bad cholesterol precursor) and/or adipose tissue (body fat) and will HARM at any ingestion level.

It is refined based fructose sweeteners that are Public Enemy Number One in the food chain in triggering obesity, diabetes, hypoglycemia, Syndrome X and cardio vascular disease, if not many forms of cancer.