Healthy Breakfast Food Recipes – Natalie
Uploaded by psychetruth on Apr 24, 2008 to YouTube
Healthy Breakfast Food Recipes – Nutrition by Natalie
Natalie demonstrates to you five different healthy breakfast items and how to cook or make them. A good breakfast is key to your health and wellness.
Items include, Smoothie, Breakfast Taco, Yogurt Parfait, Oatmeal or an English Muffin with Egg and Fruit.
Scientist: GM Food Safety Testing Is “Woefully Inadequate”
- By Ken Roseboro
According to Judy Carman, Ph.D., very little safety testing is done on genetically modified foods, and when it is done, biotechnology companies conduct minimal testing. Dr. Carmen says that more extensive testing of GM foods is needed to ensure they are safe. Her recommendations seem prophetic in light of a recent Austrian government study that found reduced fertility in mice-fed GM corn.
Dr. Carmen is director of the Institute of Health and Environmental Research, Inc., a non=profit research institute based in Australia focusing on the safety of genetically modified food. She earned a doctorate degree in medicine from the University of Adelaide in the areas of metabolic regulation, nutritional biochemistry, and cancer. She has investigated outbreaks of disease for an Australian state government.
Ken Roseboro, editor of The Organic & Non-GMO Report, interviewed Dr. Judy Carmen during her recent visit to the United States.
Can you tell me about your research on the health impacts of GM foods?
We are conducting one the very few long-term, independent animal feeding studies with GM foods. To date, most of these types of studies have been done by biotechnology companies or scientists associated with biotechnology companies. Of the few independent studies being done, a study by the Austrian government recently made public found reduced fertility in mice fed GM corn. Another recent study done in Italy showed immune system problems in mice fed GM corn. The studies done by biotechnology companies tend to show no health problems associated with eating GM food. The independent studies are finding adverse effects.
Do you have any comments about the Austrian study showing reduced fertility?
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. It is interesting that (Russian scientist) Irina Ermakova had similar findings (of reduced fertility) with mice fed GM soy. It is disturbing that the study showed a gradually worsening effect on mice that ate the GM corn. I am worried that something similar is happening in humans. If it is, it could take many years for problems to become apparent, and by then it could be too late to do anything about it.
What are the challenges of doing this type of research?
There are two major challenges. First, it is very hard to get GM seed to conduct the research. In order to buy GM seed, you have to go to a licensed seed dealer, and sign a technology licensing agreement, which states that you won’t do any research on the seed, which includes agronomic, health, and environmental research. Also, scientists who try to research health impacts of GM food get harassed and intimidated by people with vested interests in GM technology. I’ve had 10 years of abuse from such people who’ve defamed me, driven me out of a university, and tried to get me fired from jobs. With that kind of intimidation, scientists often decide not to do any research. Vested interests have been trying to find out about research I’m doing. They filed a freedom of information request with the Western Australian government to find out. The government denied their request. It could have ended up in court. My research protocol could have been stolen.
Funding for studied looking at health effects of GM foods is difficult to find in the United States. Do tyou find that universities and organizations in Australia also don’t want to fund such studies?
Yes, it is very difficult to get funding. If you want to do medical research, you have to go to an organization that funds such research. In order to get funding you need to have a proven track record in that area of research. However, in a new area of research such as GM food safety, no one has a track record, so it is difficult to get the funding. It’s a Catch-22. We are thankful that the Western Australian government gave us funding. The research protocol was sent to 15 scientists worldwide for review and then approved by a steering committee. I wanted people to know that I was doing a thorough job with this research.
If your research finds negative health impacts caused by GM foods, are you prepared to del with a negative onslaught from biotech companies?
Yes, I understand that will happen. I’ve been attacked many times. GM food advocates want to make people who do this type of work frightened of losing their jobs to make them stop working on the issue. They can’t get me fired now. I work within my own organization, the Institute of Health and Environmental Research, which I established along with others who are committed to finding out if GM foods are safe to eat. The behavior of GM food advocates makes me ask, “What are they frightened of?” If they believe GM foods are safe, they would be confident that I would not find any problems. Instead they are paranoid. What do they know that I don’t know? What are they trying to hide? It makes me more curious and determined to find out.
GM foods are widely consumed in the United States, and the US government opposed labeling GM foods. What are your thoughts about that?
The big surprise is the lack of GM food labeling here. In Australia, we hear all the time from the US that you are the land of the free. I find it amazing that Americans have no choice about eating GM foods. The most basic democratic right is being denied to you. For those who don’t want to eat GM food, it is being shoved down your throats against your will because it seems that nearly all foods have ingredients from GM corn or soy. With every US citizen exposed to GM foods, if something goes wrong it could go very badly wrong. If one person in a thousand gets sick from GM foods, that’s 300,000 people sick.
GM food advocates often claim that “no one in the US has ever gotten sick from eating GM foods.”
It’s rubbish to say that no one ever has ever gotten sick eating GM foods. The fact is that no one knows. Since GM foods have been introduced, millions of Americans have been hospitalized and millions have died, and no one has investigated to see if any of those cases have been due to eating GM foods. The HIV/AIDS epidemic went unnoticed for decades, and the relationship between smoking and lung cancer went undetected for generations. With the current level of safety testing, if GM foods do cause human health problems, it will be very difficult to determine this, even though there may be many cases of illness.
What type of safety testing do you think should be done on GM crops?
We need long-tern safety tests that are relevant to human health done by people independent of GM vested interests. The safety testing done now is woefully inadequate. Biotechnology companies often don’t even use the whole GM grain in feeding studies. Instead they tend to use only a protein extract that doesn’t even come from the GM plant. The feeding tests are also only done for few days or a few weeks. Safety tests should involve comparing animals fed GM foods with animals fed the equivalent non-GM food. The animals should be fed long enough and involve tests that, at a minimum, measure risks of cancer and allergy and threats to reproduction and organ health.
Do you believe that scientific research will conclusively show that GM foods pose significant health risks?
You never know what will happen. Independent research is finally being done and is showing adverse effects. There’s been an avalanche of bad news for the GM industry lately.
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Hungry Planet
It’s an inspired idea–to better understand the human diet, explore what culturally diverse families eat for a week.
That’s what photographer Peter Menzel and author-journalist Faith D’Alusio, authors of the equally ambitious Material World, do in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, a comparative photo-chronicle of their visits to 30 families in 24 countries for 600 meals in all.
Their personal-is-political portraits feature pictures of each family with a week’s worth of food purchases; weekly food-intake lists with costs noted; typical family recipes; and illuminating essays, such as “Diabesity,” on the growing threat of obesity and diabetes.
Among the families, we meet the Mellanders, a German household of five who enjoy cinnamon rolls, chocolate croissants, and beef roulades, and whose weekly food expenses amount to $500. We also encounter the Natomos of Mali, a family of one husband, his two wives, and their nine children, whose corn and millet-based diet costs $26.39 weekly
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Foods to Eat With Type 2 Diabetes – What to Serve a Diabetic Friend
By RJ Brand
Keeping to a healthily balanced diet is important for everybody, and it is even more important for people suffering from any form of diabetes (and pre-diabetes). Foods to eat with type 2 diabetes are basically the same foods as you would serve to anyone following a low fat weight control regime. In short, nothing is forbidden but the amount consumed of certain things needs to be minimized.
Most people associate diabetes with a boring and restricted diet. If you have a friend or relative diagnosed with diabetes, the first time you prepare a meal for them can be a bit worrying, but it needn’t be. Don’t forget that the diabetic person will have been taught how to take care of themselves when it comes to matters of diet. As long as you don’t serve food that is too fatty, loaded with sugar or high in carbohydrates, the person with type 2 diabetes will be able to enjoy the meal in safety.
The importance of what is eaten by people with type 2 diabetes should not be underestimated; weight control is one of the first things to learn about how to manage diabetes and keeping blood sugar levels balanced is vital. Certain foods are recommended as being particularly beneficial for diabetics: for example, soya beans, chicken and curd, so opt for cooking chicken rather than beef. Starchy or sugary foods raise blood sugar, so they should be avoided; include plenty of non-starchy vegetables in the meal instead of highly processed foods such as white bread or rice.
The recommended diet of a diabetic is designed to maintain a steady level of blood glucose (sugar). If the person suffering from type 2 diabetes does not stick to an appropriate diet, their blood sugar levels can fluctuate and the health of the diabetic person will be in jeopardy if the level goes too high or too low. The diabetic person could fall into a coma, and you can die as a result of diabetic coma.
Diabetes occurs when the a person’s pancreas fails to produce a hormone called insulin, or fails to produce sufficient quantities of insulin for normal functioning, or the person’s body fail to use insulin properly. The result of any of these factors is that sugar is not absorbed into the body’s cells and instead builds up in the bloodstream. It is well-known that too much sugar can be very dangerous for a diabetic (particularly if they don’t exercise), so it is obviously safer to avoid cakes and pastries, but it should also be borne in mind that some fruits have a higher sugar content than is desirable.
As with any low fat diet, certain foods are best avoided altogether, while other foods can be eaten in small portions; the amount of fat consumed is important, and the number of calories must be considered at the same time. When you are first learning about the type of foods to eat with type 2 diabetes, it can seem like a minefield; it is obviously worrying to think about how seriously food can affect a person with type 2 diabetes. The safest way of dealing with catering for diabetic friends or relatives is to invest in a proper diabetic cookbook; this will remove any element of guesswork for you and make mealtimes pleasurable.
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Sample Diabetes Diet Menu
By Denchi Minh
When a person is diabetic they are advised to go to a licensed dietician in order to provide them with a diabetes diet menu.
The diabetes diet menu is a specialized kind of diet that aims to help a diabetic lose weight and reduce their blood sugar levels. A reduction 500 calories in a daily basis can result to a pound of weight lost in a week’s time.
The diabetes diet menu gives you an option in choosing the meal that would complement the required calories you need each day. Each menu that is given by the dietician provides calories in such a manner than 50 percent are for calories, 20 percent are from proteins and 30 percent coming from fats.
Each meal is complimented by a snack so you wouldn’t have to go hungry at all. These meals are to be complemented by exercise in order for you to achieve the goal you need, which is of course reducing your weight.
Below is a sample diabetic diet menu that covers for an entire day.
• Breakfast sample menu
o 2 4½-in waffles laced with 2 tsp margarine
o 4 Tbsp. light syrup
o 1 cup yogurt
o ¾ cup blackberries
o A cup of Coffee or tea
• Lunch sample menu
o 1 cup chili with beans
o 12 crackers
o ½ cup broccoli or ½ cup cauliflower
o 1 apple
o A diet soda
• Dinner sample menu
o 4 oz. hamburger in a 1 hamburger bun. It is laced with 1 tablespoon ketchup, 2 lettuce leaves and 2 tomato slices
o 1 cup of celery sticks
o 1 cup of watermelon
o 2 tablespoon of peanut butter for the sticks
o Skim milk
Diabetics are required to lose weight in order for their body to improve its tolerance to insulin. Insulin is used by the body in order to effectively convert sugar into energy. The body cannot properly transpose sugar into energy because of the high levels of fats in the system.
The body becomes tolerant to the insulin it secretes and by then the body cannot effectively use the glucose in the blood. When this happens the body needs to inject higher dosage of insulin in order to counter act the amount of glucose in the blood.
We should take note that a diabetes diet menu doesn’t mean they will have to stop eating sweets or their favorite dishes. The diabetic only needs to reduce them in a minimal level.
For more diabetes diet menu information, visit Diabetes Diet Menu Guide and Start Reversing the Effects of Diabetes though a proper diet.
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Food Policy – What We Eat is Making Us Sick
Marion Nestle is a Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Marion’s blogsite is www.foodpolitics.com.
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Vandana Shiva – The Future of Food and Seed – Video 59:54
Source: pdxjustice on Google videos, Posted November 12, 2009
Scientist, feminist, ecologist and author, Vandana Shiva, presenting the keynote address at the 2009 Organcology Conference in Portland, Oregon on February 28, 2009.
Alice Waters – The Mother of Slow Food
Alice Waters is trying to change the way we have been programmed to view food and nutrition.
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Good Healthy Food Choices For Diabetes
By Carol Bell
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It is true that if you have diabetes there are limitations to what you can eat but that does not mean you will no longer be able to enjoy your food. Regrettably, to stay healthy it will require strict adherence to a special diet which for some people may be the grounds they contracted diabetes in the first place. The situation today is much simpler than it used to be as there are particular diabetic recipes available which make the task of arranging a diet much simpler.
Firstly, one of the main ends for a diabetic diet is to lower your weight and maintain it. Diabetic diets actually help you here by ensuring you only consume the correct amount of food from the four main groups. Two complications linked with diabetes are coronary illness and strokes but by sticking to your diabetic diet plan you should reduce the risk of having these problems.
Diabetic recipes are designed to be healthy, ensuring a low fat diabetic diet which should help with some of the familiar symptoms associated with the condition such as blurred vision, low energy levels and endless thirst.
Eating healthy involves eating a wide assortment of nutrients that embrace the whole diet spectrum with the help of the diabetic menu containing the food pyramid of vegetables, entire grains, fruits, non-fat dairy products, beans, lean meats, poultry, and fish.
In diabetic, low carbohydrate diets, the foodstuffs that are approved are meats, fish, poultry, eggs and cheese and certain vegetables like kidney beans, carrots, avocados. Diabetic recipes should not contain saturated fats and foodstuffs but foods that are low in cholesterol such as skinless poultry, with fresh fruit and vegetables as talked about previously.
A diabetic is not just about eating the right foodstuffs, as it is also serious that the amount consumed is correct to ensure the calorific intake is not too high, so weighing the food will become second nature. Using the food labels in the supermarkets will also become second nature when you are preparing your diabetic recipes as they contain useful information, usually based on a diet of 2,000 calories per day.
If you have been prescribed 2,000 calories per day on your diabetic diet program then for breakfast you may be allowed some sugar free yoghurt or skimmed milk two slices of bread or alternatively pasta or rice cakes plus an egg and some fruit. However, if a lower one thousand eight hundred calorie per day has been advised for your diabetic diet program then your diabetic recipes book might suggest something like a cup of skimmed milk, a tablespoon of cheese, a couple of slices of bread and a serving of fruit.
In the afternoon a snack might comprise of a half cup of tea or coffee with substitute sweeteners a couple of crackers and some more fruit. Alternatively, to vary your diabetic diet you could always have a cup of skimmed milk or yoghurt to replace the tea or coffee. There is no reason for you to believe that you can no longer savor your food if you’re restrained to a diabetic diet, because diabetic recipes are designed to have plenty of variety.
Source: Carol Bell
Marion Nestle Lectures on Obesity and Diabetes – This Video is 61:00 Minutes
Posted July 20, 2009
Marion Nestle lectures on how the food industry in America confuses people about healthy eating. The industry wants to sell you junk food. That is where they make their money. If you watch this video, it will explain how you are being manipulated from your first step inside your local supermarket.
I don’t like to write all negative articles, but this information has to be shared. It is a very delicate conversation with some people when trying to explain how our food industry is very predatory and is driven by the pursuit of corporate profits. Many people are sure that “Tony the Tiger” is their friend.
The food industry has morphed into a dictating Goliath with the opening of regional and national “super markets”. We are now shopping for manufactured foods. Obesity and type 2 diabetes is becoming NORMAL in our young children. We are being told what to eat. Advertisers are not trying to sell us foods for our health. They are advertising the cheapest and most non-nutritious foods to make the most dollars for food company stockholders. Buy a package of Doritos. What is it? So you may wonder why Americans are dealing with a major national health crisis.
Waymon Tisdale the ex-basketball star and jazz saxephone player extraordninaire died this year of complications from diabetes. One of his legs had been amputated below the knee. He died several months later in his early 40′s. That is about the same age as my oldest daughter. Type 2 diabetes can be avoided. This illness is no joke. It will kill you. Young folks in their 40′s are starting to die.
As a young parent 40 years ago I was not aware of the perils of fast food restaurants and “supermarkets”. I could not protect my children from McDonalds. I know more now. So I write this blog.
Marion Nestle is trying to save millions of people from blindness, amputations, heart attacks, strokes and premature death. Obesity, diabetes, the lack of knowledge of nutrition and the deceptions of our food industry in this country is deadly. It is a uphill battle. We must be more aggressive about our knowledge of nutrition for our bodies and we must be aware of the true motives of corporate food companies.
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Marion Nestle, Politics and the Food Industry in America – video 58:40 min.
Posted June 13, 2009
Marion Nestle lectures on how the food industry and politics have designed a campaign to confuse the American public about what is good food. It takes some patience to watch this video (58 min.) but you will find it very informative. It will give you some great insights on how supermarkets really work. Marion Nestle is the author of the best selling book, “Food Politics”. She has many other publications concerning politics, food and our health.
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‘Lil FoodSpook in the 1950′s
Many of you reading this blog were not on this planet in the 1950′s. In other words, the stork hadn’t brought you yet.
Well the stork brought me to San Francisco in April 1948. What a joyous occasion that must have been. My parents had arrived here from Texas and Louisiana to build Liberty Ships in the local shipyards. They bought their first house for $8500 in 1950. Eighteen months later we had a TV with three channels that went off at midnight. My father was also a preacher besides working at least two or three jobs during the week. Mother was a house mom except during the summer months when she worked at Del Monte Canneries canning fruit from the luscious San Joaquin Valley.
By 1956 I was in the third grade. Elvis had recorded “HoundDog” and was becoming a major star. All of the little boys in the neighborhood were trying to twerle their hair to be kool like the Everley Bros. Their first big hit was “Peggy Sue” followed by “Bye Bye Love”. Of course I did’nt realize at the time that my hair was of the Negroid persuasion and could never curl down over my forehead like the Everley Brothers. But, I tried. By the way, ‘Lil FoodSpook is yours truly, the author, T. Jeffery. That name is retroactive to my youth as a precursor to what I would become in my later years, FoodSpook.
I want to warn people about FOOD. There is a connection between what we eat and contracting Type 2 Diabetes. Their are concrete reasons why our young children are in jeopardy of becoming Diabetic. Foodspook grew up a lttle colored boy in San Francisco, Oakland and Richmond, CA. Life moved at a slower pace than now. My family became Black in the mid 1960′s. We became African Americans in the 1970′s. This is what we considered as “progress”. We was ‘moving on up’! However, some things didn’t change. In the 1960′s there were massive nationwide protests against the Viet Nam War. My college military deferment card disappeared in my 2nd year at San Jose State so, I got drafted. But that’s another story. The 1950′s was a time when Americans trusted our government. Actually we trusted almost everybody of authority in this country. It was inconceivable that our government (FDA) would allow restaurants to exist to sell you garbage! Well, that’s what has happened. You have NO ONE looking out for your welfare when comes to your choices of food being sold in your neighborhood.
I have become FoodSpook in my middle age because I am outraged that this epedimic of Diabetes is consumming millions of Americans and the silence from from our national media is deafening. Type 2 Diabetes is preventable and we have people that are becoming Diabetic without knowing what they did in life to bring on this condition. Diabetes is a killer if you do not understand its nature. It can destroy your body by increments over a period of time. I have become FoodSpook to try to do something in my own way to scream to people, just because you may be Black or another minority without access to great medical information, you must become aware that if you are overweight you are at risk of becoming Diabetic. You must know that the consumption of sugar by itself is not the cause of Diabetes. Ingestion of too much sugar for your body to process to energy can cause obesity. When don’t exercise that much and you like to eat fast (processed foods) that contain a high percentage of disguised carbohydrates (sugars), eventually your pancreas will not be able to produce enough insulin to break down the SUGARS in your blood stream for energy and necessary nutrients. Thus, you become a Diabetic.
When “lil FoodSpook was a young boy, it was NORMAL for most of the senior ladies in my father’s church would eventually have a lower leg or foot amputated. Growing up as a child this was NORMAL and expected. It was expected that our older men would go blind or wind up on a dialysis machine to stay alive because Diabetes was ravishing their bodies. Today, children as young as 2 years old are becoming type 2 Diabetics. Basically that means their Pancreas is not producing enough Insulin to break doiw the sugars they are ingesting in so many forms of our manufactured foods, (processed foods). They results in 25 to 30 years from now for our children will be CATASTROPHIC.
What ‘Lil FoodSpook saw in the 1950′s was the natural assumption the life is good and protecting. In reality life as we knew it, ( that is us coloured folks) was destroying us. BBQ, Ham Hocks and Pigs Feet and not to mention the Heavenly homemade Flakey Biscuits was clogging up our arteries as my parents would sit around after dinner and talk about how Pres. Roosevelt has helped us all. We were dying then and still are today. FoodSpook is hollering WAKE UP! Type 2 diabetes is so unnessesary.
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