60 Minutes: Toxic Sugar (Updated)
Apr 02
Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, believes the high amount of sugar in the American diet, much of it in processed foods, is killing us. And as Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, new scientific research seems to support his theory that sugar is toxic, including some linking the excess ingestion of sugars to heart disease. This post includes links to a variety of articles describing the harmful effects of refined sugar on the human body.
Photos From The Market
Mar 30
Here are a few current photos from the market...
A Child’s School Project: The Importance Of ‘Organic’
Mar 01
A child's school experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply...
Factory Farming & Animal Abuse
Feb 13
Factory Farming Resource Page...
McDonald’s Insists On Better Treatment Of Pigs
Feb 13
It’s the biggest and perhaps best-known restaurant chain in the world. And today, in a joint statement with The HSUS, it announced its intention to get out of the business of gestation crates for breeding sows in the United States. McDonald’s declared that it “wants to see the end of sow confinement in gestation stalls in our U.S. supply chain” and further notes that “there are alternatives that we think are better for the welfare of sows.”
