Interesting POV…

"Efforts are improving children's food"... Really????

Lucky Charms. Froot Loops. Cocoa Pebbles. A ConAgra frozen dinner with corn dog and fries. McDonald’s Happy Meals.
These foods might make a nutritionist cringe, but all of them have been identified by food companies as healthy choices they can advertise to children under a three-year-old initiative by the food industry to fight childhood obesity.

  William Neuman from the NYT.

I don’t feel the need to inject any more negativity into the discussion, so I just pose one silly question here… Why do we continue to allow the industry to police itself, when we know this doesn’t work?

I’m not putting any suggestions out there like contacting your elected representatives… I have an even BETTER suggestion…

This…

Grapefruit by Philip Tseng

and this…..

Egg by Cathie Urubashata

Nutrition is a transformer of our consciousness and touches every point of our lives…

Yes, we absorb the nutrition and we absorb the toxicity as well. Of course, the miracle is that our body eliminates much of what is harmful, but seeing the increase in degenerative diseases, even among the young, it is clear that there is a limit even to the immense wisdom of the body. I have been a few times, not very often, on a fast. After a fast, you are more sensitive and you will know pretty well what to eat. You will know that we all eat at least twice as much as we need…

Well, I eat God every day when I have a meal…

If you had a perfect environment, the perfect lover, and the perfect food, you obviously wouldn’t need any vitamins…

What is going on here?

http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/lynton-asks-concession-cut-out-the-fat/#more-http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/lynton-asks-concession-cut-out-the-fat/#more-28448

But not before we ate bad food!!!

Kraft, Frito Lay, and other corporate behemoths who manufacture food products were victimized by bribe-taking employees… and we end up eating sub-standard food

What’s scary is that these  just the examples of the ones that got caught and were written about in the main-stream media…

Yummy... NOT

Lets have some more of this please (from the farmer’s market)!!!

And this!

“Apparently, we have collectively decided as a culture that it is impossible for children to take part in any activity without simultaneously shoving something into their pie holes.” – NYT

Even though they are both talking about the sensuality of food… David is coming from a science and business vantage point … and Alice is coming from a … well… clearly FRENCH perspective! LOLworthy indeed, but also tres instructif!

Truffled Asparagus Egg and Parmesan from the kitchn.com

At thekitchn.com Check it out!!!

Chief FatCat Officer - Kellogs - David McKay

“A pre-sweetened cereal as part of a regular diet for kids is not a bad thing” – David McKay

Not a bad thing for whom?  While kids have become more and more obese over the last decade, Wall Street  has been pleased to see a 138% return on their investment in Kelloggs shares.

Froot Loops – Zero Fruit, 41% sugar…hmmmm … not a bad thing you say?

In case you’re just not sure what to do for breakfast with the tykes, here are a few ideas…

Pineapple bananas and milk

Toast peanut butter and bananas

Muesli

“Below lists the children’s brands reviewed in the Yale study. The nutrition score was based on the nutrient profiling system developed by Rayner and colleagues at Oxford University and used by the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom. Those in bold are heavily marketed to children via television, internet or both.”

Nutrition Score (or should that be MALNUTRITION SCORE) / Cereal 
34 / Reese’s Puffs General Mills 
36 / Corn Pops Kellogg 
36 / Lucky Charms General Mills 
36 / Golden Graham36 / Corn Pops Kellogg 
36 / Lucky Charms General Mills 
36 / Golden Grahams General Mills 
37 / Cinnamon Toast Crunch General Mills 
37 / Cap’n Crunch Quaker 
38 / Count Chocula General Mills 
38 / Trix General Mills 
38 / Froot Loops Kellogg 
38 / Smorz Kellogg 
38 / Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles Post 
39 / Cocoa Puffs General Mills 
40 / Cookie Crisp General Mills 
40 / Apple Jacks Kellogg 
40 / Cookie Crunch Kellogg 
43 / Frosted Flakes Kellogg 
44 / Disney High School Musical Kellogg 
44 / Rice or Cocoa Krispies Kellogg 
44 / Mini-Swirlz Kellogg 
44 / Honey Nut Os Cascadian Farm 
44 / Honey Nut Cheerios General Mills 
44 / Waffle Crisp Post 
44 / Chex General Mills 
46 / Honey Smacks Kellogg 
46 / Purely O’s Cascadian Farm 
46 / Alpha Bits Post 
46 / Golden Crisp Post 
46 / Honeycomb Post 
48 / Raisin Bran Post 
50 / Dora the Explorer General Mills 
50 / Cinnamon Crunch Cascadian Farm 
51 / Bunnies Annie’s 
51 / EnviroKids Organic Nature’s Path 
51 / Puffins Barbara’s Bakery 
52 / Cheerios (except Honey Nut) General Mills 
53 / Kix General Mills 
53 / Life Quaker 
54 / Hannah Montana Kellogg 
54 / Clifford Crunch Cascadian Farm 
56 / Mighty Bites Kashi 
56 / Honey Sunshine Kashi 
58 / Organic Wild Puffs Barbara’s Bakery 
72 / Mini-Wheats Kellogg