by Jordan | Nov 12, 2013 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Healthy Eating |
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to house sit for some friends recently. And yes I’ll admit it, the first thing I did was rummage and poke around in their pantry, fridge and freezer to see what ‘normal’ people are currently eating. I was...
by Changing Habits | Oct 9, 2013 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Healthy Eating, The Nutrition Academy |
1. Eat foods that have no additives, preservatives, flavourings or numbers. 2. Read the ingredients on your labels of everything – e.g. milk may have MPC or calcium carbonate. 3 Avoid eating boxed breakfast cereals (no exceptions). 4. Hydrogenated,...
by Changing Habits | Sep 4, 2013 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Healthy Eating |
1. Read the ingredients rather than the nutritional panel 2. If the ingredient list reads like a chemical laboratory or is extensively long – it’s not healthy – step away from the chocolate. 3. Milk and white chocolate use flavours and milk protein...
by Cyndi | Oct 10, 2012 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling, Medications/Vitamins, The Nutrition Academy |
As you know I am not a fan of breakfast cereals. They are the most profitable food on the supermarket shelf, they have false health claims that would curl your toes and their marketing and advertising is full of extravagant claims. The food is barely a food, it...
by Changing Habits | Mar 19, 2012 | Food Labelling |
This 13 minute video is an insight into how relaxed and misleading labelling laws can be. Urvashi Rangan an environmental house scientist and mother who works for consumer reports started looking into the labelling system both from a professional and personal...