Collecting My Thoughts

“It is no longer controversial to say that the United States food system does not support a healthy diet . Junk food is extraordinarily pa...

This is the final week of programming at Lakeside, and the director of education uses our own Lakeside "experts" who present fin...

More and more artificial sweeteners are used in our food with approval from the FDA. The consumer believes this will help with weight loss...

From this health website with which I’m not familiar, comes this warning.  Many brands of olive oil are fake. http://eatlocalgrown.com/artic...

        [snark] I know who ordered that pizza, who bought that bag of chips and forced open my mouth. Yes, someone in the 1% who needs to ...

If you're overweight it's not because there's a fast food business near-by and no fresh fruits and vegetables. I didn't even...

The ingenuity, quality control and passion for making candy corn just amazes me. It's a big seller at Halloween time. HT Neo-Neocon

Imagine the unintended consequences! Be sure to read the comments about Enviropig. "The “Enviropig” has been genetically modified in s...

I found the article--it was in the September 2, 1981, Upper Arlington News --about 28 years ago. Here's the points I made. I did the re...

The food industry--agribusiness, processors, packagers, designers, marketers, chemistists, nutritionists, magazine writers, etc.--will conti...

Recently at Lakeside's Orchestra Hall (only movie theater in Ottawa County) I enjoyed Julie and Julia , which is not just about cooking,...

Why there were more hungry children in 2007 Hunger will never go away in the USA because the government keeps redefining and refining what t...

My peanut butter nightmare story In my No Free Lunch newsletter, #13, (see the previous entry on the background of that newsletter) I wro...