Fwd: 10 Reasons to Say No to GMOs; GMOs to blame for problems in plants, animals; Special Webinar Presentation with Dr Don Huber

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September, 2011 | VIEW IN BROWSER Jeffrey Smith       10 Reasons to Say No to GMOs With help from the folks at the Institute's Facebook page, we've compiled 10 reasons to avoid GM foods. [read the list] GMOs to blame for problems in plants, animals Scientists are seeing new, alarming patterns in plants and animals due to increased use of the herbicide Roundup, said Michael McNeill, an agronomist who owns Ag Advisory Ltd. in Algona, Iowa. McNeill cited Roundup-resistant superweeds and the herbicide's tendency to make important nutrients unavailable to plants, harming crops and making them vulnerable to disease. "When you spray glyphosate on a plant, it's like giving it AIDS," he said. McNeill said he and his colleagues are seeing a higher incidence of infertility and early-term abortion in cattle and hogs that are fed on GM crops. He added that poultry fed on the suspect crops are showing reduced fertility rates. McNeill advises his farmer clients to rotate chemicals - or not use them at all. The number of mainstream agricultural experts raising serious concerns over Monsanto's Roundup herbicide is growing all the time. These include Robert Kremer, a USDA microbiologist, and Don Huber, a plant pathologist and former Purdue University professor. [read the article] Monsanto's GM sweetcorn will be sold unbranded and unlabeled Monsanto will launch this fall a GM sweet corn seed for farmers to grow. The corn will then be sold in grocery stores in the US and Canada. While the sweetcorn is being hailed as a "consumer-oriented vegetable product," it has been genetically modified to contain an insecticide and to tolerate being sprayed with Roundup herbicide. Yum. (Note: There is already GM sweet corn on the market in small quantities, but this could increase its prevalence.) [read the article] Dow launches multi-herbicide tolerant GM soy Dow just submitted its new multi-herbicide tolerant GM soybean for US government approval. [read article] Designed as a solution to Roundup-resistant superweeds, the new soybean is not only engineered to tolerate Roundup, but also the herbicide glufosinate and 2,4-D - a component of Agent Orange. Farmers will be able to spray this cocktail of weedkillers on fields without killing the crop. All these herbicides stand accused of causing serious harm. Roundup has been linked in studies to birth defects, cancer, and other serious toxic effects. [download report] Glufosinate is a neurotoxin and causes birth defects in laboratory animals. [download report] 2,4-D, an ingredient of Agent Orange, causes birth defects in laboratory animals, damages DNA, and is an endocrine disruptor. It is toxic to bees and fish. [read fact sheet on 2,4-D] During the first 13 years of GM crops, herbicide use increased by 10% or 383 million pounds. This new soybean could bring substantially more toxic herbicides to our environment and our food. ConAgra sued over GMO "100% natural" cooking oil Food giant ConAgra is being sued for labelling its Wesson brand cooking oil "100% natural" when it is actually made from GMOs. The complainant said the "labels are intended to evoke a natural, wholesome product" but are deceptive. The case has far-reaching impacts because the "natural" claim, which has no legal definition, is widely used, and around 70% of processed foods in the US contain GMOs. Ironically, the complaint cites a definition of GMOs by none other than Monsanto, the company most notorious for its promotion of the technology. According to Monsanto, GMOs are: "Plants or animals that have had their genetic makeup altered to exhibit traits that are not naturally theirs." The complaint also quotes a GMO definition from the World Health Organization: "Organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally." We couldn't have put it better ourselves! [read the article] Join a National Buying Club for Organic and Non-GMO Foods Get healthier foods delivered to your door at up to 50% below retail. (And every purchase helps supports the Institute for Responsible Technology's campaign to end GMOs.) We often get comments that organic or non-GMO foods may be more expensive or harder to find. The new national distribution service called Green Polka Dot Box (GPDB) offers a creative solution for you and your family to maintain an affordable healthy diet. With food priced 30-50% below retail and shipped to your home for free (on orders of $150 or more) this new national distribution club may save you money and time. Visit www.greenpolkadotbox.com/irt to sign up. GPDB will begin distributing non-perishable goods, and offers three types of memberships. Later the buying club will also be offering frozen goods, and eventually fresh organic produce from regional warehouses. This program is also being supported by Organic Consumers Association, NaturalNews, and Citizens for Health. It is not for everyone, but can certainly help bring non-GMO foods to people otherwise unable to access them. IRT also encourages buying local and supporting local natural food stores. Join Jeffrey Smith and Dr. Don Huber for a Special Webinar Presentation Join a 2-hour webinar with Roundup expert Dr. Don Huber, who will discuss the discovery of a new type of organism possibly linked to a rise in plant diseases in Roundup Ready corn and soybeans, and to infertility and spontaneous abortions in livestock. Dr. Huber will also describe how Roundup herbicide promotes plant diseases, causes nutrient deficiency, harms soil ecology, and creates profound and lasting damage to US agriculture. [learn more]             Pitch In for a Non-GMO Future We loved the outpouring of help from last newsletter's request for donations, so here it is again. And thank you all so very much for your continued help. The Institute for Responsible Technology is a victim of our own successes, now struggling to keep up with the huge new level of non-GMO opportunities, requests, and offers. The GMO buzz in America is rising fast and we desperately need more staff time to handle it all. We literally have thousands of people ready and waiting to be organized into national outreach groups, targeting parents, healthcare practitioners, campuses, chefs, religious groups, etc. We have a growing list of organizations offering to distribute our materials to their members and readers. We have dozens of hours of outstanding footage ready to be converted into short and medium videos. What we don't have is enough hours to harvest all this low-hanging non-GMO fruit. Please help by making a contribution today. Every single dollar is highly leveraged into more and more successes. Let's do this together. Action Alerts Non-GMO Project launches Website for Non-GMO Month The Non-GMO Project has lauched a new website, www.nongmomonth.org, which helps coordinate this burgeoning movement by encouraging the public to celebrate their right to choose non-GMO. The site features an open interface that allows all users to create and participate in non-GMO events during the month of October. In addition to an events calendar, the new website includes a listing of retailers participating in Non-GMO Month and a Daily Giveaway calendar where visitors can win prizes throughout October. [list your event] Get trained to be an Expert on GMOs! Jeffrey Smith is holding speaker trainings this fall in California to educate people on the best methods to communicate the complex issue of GMOs. Upcoming trainings will be held in Petaluma CA, Los Angeles and San Francisco. [learn more] You can also take the course as four-part webinar at any time by contacting us at info@responsibletechnology.org. To view a complete listing of Jeffrey's lectures and events [here]. Calling all Parents! We are getting ready to launch our first National Parent Group, and want to hear from all those of you who have a keen interest in feeding our kids healthy, non-GMO foods! If you have not already signed on to the Parent Outreach Group on the Tipping Point Network on our website, don't miss the opportunity to network with other parents, locally and nationally, to ensure non-GMO food for kids. [Join us!] IRT will be present at the Natural Living Conference in Irvine, California on October 1 with a table full of educational materials! The conference, sponsored by the Holistic Moms Network, focuses on holistic parenting and parents' challenges in raising healthy kids in a toxic world. Stop by and visit us! Keynote Speakers include: actress and Holistic Mom Mayim Bialik, and food activist, author, and mother Robyn O'Brien, author of The Unhealthy Truth. To register, go to [http://register.holisticmoms.org/] Get Ready for World Food Day! IRT is partnering with OCA and the proponents of the March to encourage everyone to get involved during Non-GMO Month - October - and World Food Day, October 16! Do something! Please go to the Millions Against Monsanto map on OCA's website and connect with others near you. Post to IRT's Facebook page a blurb and a photo of what you will be doing! Get Involved in World Food Day Rallies, Marches, Recruiting Drives, Film Screenings, Potlucks and House Parties This World Food Day, October 16, 2011, is going to be the largest day of action for labels on genetically engineered food in U.S. history. Learn more about Millions Against Monsanto's plans for World Food Day. With your help and participation, there will be hundreds of events across the USA. Find out what's cooking for World Food Day around the country.             NEWS FROM THE NETWORK OF NON-GMO ACTIVISTS GMO Free Project of Tucson The GMO Tipping Point Network of Tucson, a chapter of the Institute for Responsible Technology's national Tipping Point Network, has joined forces with the GMO Free Project of Tucson, an already established non-profit group, to more efficiently hold events, use social media, educate people, and lead the non-GMO movement in Tucson, especially before and during Non-GMO Month this October. Numerous public events, including public showings in September of two different movies – "Deconstructing Supper" and "The Future of Food" – will be held, as well as our main event online, an Eat GMO Free Challenge (to be found on the Facebook page of GMO Free Project of Tucson during October). Mascha Miedaner is the founder and Executive Director of the GMO Free Project of Tucson. Mario Raso, the coordinator for both the GMO Tipping Point Network of Tucson and District 8 Organic Consumers Association Millions Against Monsanto campaign, is the new Director of Outreach. Melissa Diane Smith, an IRT-trained Non-GMO speaker and author of Going Against the Grain, is the new Director of Education. For the event schedule through October's Non-GMO Month, please check the GMO Free Project of Tucson website (www.gmofreeprojectoftucson.org) or Facebook page. In The News Just what we need for a better society - GM humans with bulletproof skin via spider genes  Daily Mail GM crops still won't feed the world - in spite of Nina Federoff's rant in the New York Times  Civil Eats Monsanto to be prosecuted for biopiracy in India over GM eggplant  India Today Multi-herbicide resistant canola weeds found in US  Univ. of Arkansas GM contamination rampant at GM canola spill site in Australia  GeneEthics Public pressure halts Spain's trials of GM pharma rice with human genes  Friends of the Earth US push for GM wheat in Australia  GM Watch Law firm takes up case of Aussie farmer who lost organic certification after GM contamination  GM Watch Polish president vetoes bill that would allow GM planting  Poland.pl The Institute for Responsible Technology is working to end the genetic engineering of our food supply and the outdoor release of GM crops. ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS! Click here to check out the excellent newsletter from Organic Consumers Association called Organic Bytes. Help us Create the Tipping Point in the American Marketplace! JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOLLOW US ON TWITTER Shopping Guide | Support Our Campaign | Educational Materials | Media Enquiries | Donate Spilling the Beans is a publication of The Institute for Responsible Technology, with editorial support from GMWatch.org For GMWatch's daily GMO newsletter, click here. To ensure you receive updates from ResponsibleTechnology.org in your inbox (not to bulk or junk folders), please add newsletter@responsibletechnology.org to your address book. You have received this email through your subscription to this campaign's email list.  If you did not subscribe, or would no longer like to receive email updates unsubscribe here. To update your email address or change your subscription details, click here.

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Fwd: Fooducate Blog - Burritos, Willie Nelson, and Sustainable Agriculture

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Burritos, Willie Nelson, and Sustainable Agriculture Posted: 04 Sep 2011 04:50 AM PDT Chipotle's motto is "Food with Integrity." Although the burrito joint is a fast food establishment, it tries to source meat and other ingredients from small farms practicing sustainable agriculture. Animals are treated like … animals, not factory inputs. To emphasize their values, Chipotle recently created a short video clip depicting a farmer going full cycle from small farm to factory farm and back. Not that a burrito is your best nutritional option for lunch, but if you need to decide between a Whopper or half a burrito, Chipotle wins on both fronts: 1. Nutrition – see a comparison here 2. Ingredient sourcing So far Chipotle has been able to do the sustainable song and dance because it is a relatively small chain – only 1000 locations. Imagine if McDonald's (14,000 US locations, 32,000 globally) made the decision to source chicken only from small, sustainable, family farms. Now that would be a revolution. Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate

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Fwd: Fooducate Blog - A Labor of Love – Raising Children with Food Sensitivities

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A Labor of Love – Raising Children with Food Sensitivities Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:25 AM PDT This is a guest blog post by Beth George I am a mother, child advocate lawyer, food activist, and entrepreneur.    This is a story of how focusing on diet made a huge difference in my son's life.  I hope our story may help others. As a child advocate attorney, I worked with many children in juvenile courts, in state custody, and in special education. I was alarmed by the number of children being diagnosed with various disorders and systematically placed on drugs with no real testing, and worse, no quantifiable improvement. Then the issue hit home and my son (who was then 4-6) started to exhibit significant behavioral problems, along with serious health issues.  I became motivated to take immediate action.  At a young age, he was (mis) diagnosed  with ADHD, Asperger's, Pervasive Developmental Disorder and other maladies. I was not convinced of the accuracy of the diagnoses, and chose not to put him on the recommended psychotropic drugs. Along with significant stomach upsets and a compromised immune system, my son would sometimes flap his hands, moan, and get red-hot ears; he could rock, become extremely agitated or hyperactive.  At times, though, he was quite calm, introspective and manageable. By the time he was 8, we started exploring diet as a possible cause for our son's various behaviors.  We removed common wheat (replaced it with the ancient grain spelt), and removed all artificial additives, high fructose corn syrup, MSG and anything that reeked of an artificial process. The results were profound. After implementing a regulated (but very satisfying) diet, our son's life was completely turned around.  By middle school, he was placed in the gifted math program and did quite well in school. He is now free of any diagnoses. He was never was put on any medications. He is well adjusted, creative, and grounded. At age 14, he is now taking courses at the local community college. My son is a very sensitive individual who still gets incredibly itchy from his own haircuts, is extremely empathetic to people and animals, and is exceptionally bright.  His environment and the foods he eats profoundly impact him. A little bit more about my son's diet; We implemented diet change through a process of trial and error. My son clearly has trouble digesting common wheat.  When he eats too much of it, he literally shuts down.  When he was younger, he would go into a complete fog; he also had significant digestive issues (frequent vomiting or constipation). We didn't know the cause, but it was suggested to us that he might have food sensitivities. So we started with removing wheat and dairy. We would test my son by removing wheat from his diet and then putting it back in – a modified elimination diet.   When we witnessed the recurrence of head fogginess, irritability and digestive issues, we knew wheat was a culprit for him. We tested him for celiac and found that he does not have the autoimmune disorder in which all gluten should be eliminated. We heard that the ancient spelt might be a good alternative.   Spelt does not cause the same reactions for him.  The gluten is water soluble and much easier to digest.  Plus, as an heirloom grain, it is loaded with many nutrients that have been stripped from the new varieties of grains.  We have heard similar stories from many of other spelt eaters. As for the artificial additives, we were able to determine his reactions by process of elimination.  My son would get red-hot ears and have meltdowns after eating foods with artificial colors – especially the reds and yellows.  There is a study published in the Lancet in September 2007 demonstrating the connection between artificial additives and hyperactive behavior in "normal" children. The Feingold Association is a great resource on the problems they can cause. My son would get extra hyper after eating food with high fructose corn syrup.  He once had such a bad reaction after chewing bubble gum (it was the only thing we allowed him to have from his Halloween booty).  We then learned it was the BHT preservative in the gum that was the likely culprit. We also did metabolic testing and learned that his body lacked essential Vitamin Bs.  We supplemented him with complex Bs, omega 3s, and calcium and magnesium to help with the absorption. My advice to parents is to look at all foods as suspects (it could be wheat, corn, soy, eggs, or whatever for some kids), but there are some biggies out there to start with: wheat, dairy, and, of course, all of the artificial junk.  We just don't need that stuff in our diets.  Also, parents should consult with medical professionals who are knowledgeable about metabolic testing to see if their children might be nutrient deprived. This wrinkle in our lifestyle – the options for all natural, no common wheat options were quite limited a few years ago.  This led us to creating a small baking company, Spelt Right, with the dual mission of making the best tasting healthful spelt products anywhere and to do outreach on the connection between diet and behavior. But back to eating well….The importance of which is nothing new.  It is simply the amnesia of the American Public to have forgotten what has been known for thousands of years: "Let Food Be Thy Medicine; Let Medicine Be Thy Food." Hippocrates, 460 BC Beth George is a mother of three (19, 14, 9), a child advocate attorney by trade, and an entrepreneur, food activist and founder of Spelt Right Baking Co by passion.  She currently spends her time between Coastal Maine and Metro New York, speaking on and writing about her experiences with diet change, while also building her natural food business. Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate

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Is pretending food's not junk worse than serving junk food?

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Is pretending food's not junk worse than serving junk food? Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:30 AM PDT A few days ago I did an interview with CTV NewsChannel on Edmonton schools' "junk food ban", a "ban" enacted with the explicit purpose of helping combat childhood obesity. I think the producer was a touch surprised during our pre-interview when I explained to her that not only hasn't Edmonton banned junk food, but they've gone and done worse, they've used nutritionism and health haloing to pretend the junk food they're still selling is in fact healthy. What do I mean? Instead of regular potato chips, they're selling baked potato chips. Instead of high calorie candy, they're selling bags of dried apple slices. Instead of sugared soda and energy drinks, they're selling juice and chocolate milk. Oh, and they're calling bags of pulverized vegetable pulp, combined with pulverized rice and potato flour (vegetable chips), vegetables. Hey School Boards! Listen up! Baked chips are still potato chips, they've just got marginally fewer calories and fat grams. Bags of apple slices? Sure they were once apples. In fact they were once 4 apples - with each bag containing all 4 apples' calories - 18% more than a Snickers bar, along with over 15 teaspoons of sugar. Juice? Drop per drop it has the same number of calories and same amount of sugar as soda. Chocolate milk? Double the calories and 20% more sugar. Baking doesn't make chips healthy! Dried fruit, while certainly a yummy choice, is just fibre with highly concentrated sugar! Juice and chocolate milk? Don't get me started. And vegetable chips as vegetables? Ugh. Worse still, despite trotting out the banner of childhood obesity, there are no caloric guidelines to the school food reforms, and they still allow for extremely high levels of sodium, which in turn is often used in making highly processed junky food taste good, and consequently home cooking, comparatively bland. So at the end of the day, what Edmonton (and Ontario, and virtually all Canadian school boards) are doing is still selling junk food, but now they're labeling it as "healthy". They're also contributing to the de-healthy-palate-ification of our children, and making parenting more difficult, even for parents who do say, "No", because now parents like me who actually take the time to teach kids about true evidence based nutrition, have a very real authority figure in schools telling our kids that what we've taught them about juice, chocolate milk, baked chips, pizza and ice cream days, is wrong. There's a world of difference between slightly less awful and good, and yet here they're serving at best (and that's a huge stretch) slightly less awful food, and telling kids and parents and society that it's good for you. We're a very long, long way away from healthy schools. If this had been rolled out as a small step towards a much more comprehensive long term reform, maybe I could clap. Given that it's being rolled out as health food, it makes me wonder whether the schools would be better off selling absolute garbage - because at least then they wouldn't be undermining parents like me because they couldn't get away with pretending it was healthy. Oh, and one side argument. Some folks have said that given kids can just walk across the street and buy junk, that the schools should too. I'm pretty sure they can buy cigarettes across the street too - doesn't mean schools should sell them. Schools should be safe, healthy, exemplary places, because you're damn right, pretty much everywhere else is horrifying. My two lines in the sand? 1. Schools shouldn't be serving or selling foods that their teachers teach their students not to eat. 2. Schools shouldn't be selling junk food and calling it healthy. So terrifically sad. End of rant.

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Sugar is not so sweet after all

So, in my post titled, what's it going to be about, I told you all that I was 30lbs over weight?  A lot of people are surprised by that since I eat so "well". Truth is, I wasn't eating as well as I thought I was. I was so concerned, no not concerned, obsessed with staying away from GMO foods that I didn't take any else into consideration and that's where I failed. I had no idea that all the ORGANIC food I was eating had so much sugar in them. I'm talking, apple cider, vegetable juice, yogurt, salad dressings, ketcup, pasta sauce, cookies, bars and more, all organic, all loaded with sugar. I look at the ingredient list of everything I buy now I look at the sugar content as well. It's amazing how much I had to change. One thing I will say is that regardless of how bad sugar can be when over consumed as most of society does, I will never, ever consume sugar substitutes, they're just as or even more harmful! I had also fell victim to the low/no fat lie, you 'll see how that ties in below.

All this came about when I was watching a podcast series called Underground Wellness and another called Summer Tomato. Both podcast talk about the dangers of sugar and how blind most people are to the damage it can do to the body, mainly the liver. You can check these podcast out yourself on Itunes or you can youtube them. Below I posted a video where the damage sugar does to the body is explained in a short version by Sean Croxton of Underground Wellness. I have also posted an article for you to read written in the New York Times by leading sugar expert Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology.  Gary Taubes also has thoughts on sugar and carbs in his book Good Calories Bad Calories but I have not explored those.

A couple of things that make sugar scary to me:
1) Its addictive! When I started my no sugar regiment it was, actually is, very tough. I think about it and want it a lot. The scary thing about it is that most people don't know their addicts, hence all the obesity and other dangerous health problems. Sugar has also been linked to depression and what do some people do when depressed, eat, it's a horrible cycle. And because eating is socially acceptable, no one thinks their doing anything wrong. Sugar is seductive. You see all the commercials with the women who are enticed by their sweets. The worst are the yogurt commercials! The women are bragging about how much weight they've lost by eating these yogurts that taste like desserts. Notice, it's only women in these commercials, the industries are targeting our emotions and insecurities lonelyness and buying power!

2) Like I mentioned in my 1st paragraph, I, like most of us, believed at one time that fat was bad. I've since learned better and love my fat, good quality, grass fed, and or aleast organic fat. I'll do a post about that another time. I bring fat up to say that when most dairy is made to be no and low fat the companies really bump up the sugar amounts. Pay attention to all those flavored yogurts and look at how much sugar they have. Lets say you have a flavored yogurt and an apple and sugar in your coffee - that's a lot of sugar, just in your morning. That may seem like a pretty "healthy" breakfast right?  Be aware - there are about 21 grams of sugar in the average flavored (artificially) yogurt, a small/medium apple can have about 13 or so grams of sugar and we can't really gage how much coffee has cause it's different for every one. Ready for math - 4 grams of sugar equals 1 tablespoon, so you figure, about 6 tablespoons of sugar in yogurt ( If  "flavored"), about 31/2 table spoons in the apple and however many tablespoons you put in your coffee, that's about 10 table spoon of sugar plus whatever you put in your coffee/tea and that's just breakfast! That in conjunction with the sugar you'll eat the rest of the day, including other sweets, breads and pizza/pasta (even whole wheat) really adds up, without us even thinking about it. Also something to really be carful with are the serving sizes. Most drinks are 2 serving sizes, a pint of ice cream 3 or 4. Crackers and cookies are about 2 or 3 per servings. And I don't know about you but I can eat a pint of ice cream alone and I rarely eat just 2 or 3 cookies. Serving sizes are tricky because most juices are about 24grams of sugar or more per serving and a serving is usually an 8oz cup. And from an ethical stand point I can't stand those non fat, fake yogurt places. But I will enjoy a plain at PB with fruit once in a blue moon though. I highly take it into account everthing I eat in terms of sugar content.

So now, a couple of changes I’ve made.
I've always believed in drinking water but I really like this organic apple cider that my partner buys and even though it's staight fruit sugar from crushed apples, its still sugar. So when I’m in the mood and when I'm giving it to Jas I dilute it. It's actually a money saver. He buys it and I split it into 2 jugs and fill them with filtered water and BAM 2 for the price of one! There is a another juice I allow her to have it's 10grams of sugar pouch but like I take my sugar (and not just treats) into consideration for the day, I do the same for her. My daughter is an huge water drinker so I don't worry so much, but I do pay attention. She also is an avid milk drinker and plain is just fine for her. We drink whole grass fed and or raw when we can get it. Every once and a while I'll put some chocolate Stevia (Stevia is a non-caloric herb that is a member of the Chrysanthemum family that grows wild as a small shrub) in her milk as a treat. Stevia in it's closest to raw form should be a white powder. With that said, I don't keep actual sugar in my house, I find now that I don't really need it. But if you want to have something on hand date sugar, coconut sugar and maple crystals are fine, orgainic of course. I'm carful with Jaslynn's "treats" too. Fruit leather has lots of concentrated sugar and so do those applesauce pouches. A couple of those treats in one day can add up quick. And with apple pouches (which dad buys, blessed his heart) there is no fiber or other nutrients she can get from plain old actual apple etc.
I have started making oatmeal with out sugar and it taste just fine and my daughter has even gotten used to it. I make it taste good with a couple of things; you can add cinnamon, cloves or nutmeg (just a touch, its strong) cream, butter, and coconut oil. You could of course throw some good quality (not sugar laden) dried fruit or even fresh fruit in. You can do this for yogurt too. I got caught up in the flavored organic yogurt/yogurt tubes trick too, paid no mind the sugar count - its crazy! Now I buy plain and hook it up. There is a brand that I like now that uses' grass-fed dairy, their coconut flavored has I think 6 grams of sugar and the vanilla has 9. So when Jas and I are in the mood for flavor I will get a couple of those too. My worse habit was eating a bowl of sweet cereal at night while watching bad tv, talk about depressed. How I'm getting over that is to drink a big cup of tea at night. Something with flavor, I don't consume caffeine so there are not that many great options for me but I have come to love spearmint and peppermint or course camomile is always good. My favorite with a splash of half and half is honey bush caramel. It's warm, tasty and satisfying, no sugar needed!

So as you can see, like me, you can also find a positive substitute for sugar and find ways to curb your cravings. I hope you can also see you don't have to change every single thing, just pay attention to you sugar in take and take the steps to moderate. Hope I’m not leaving anything out. If you have any questions please feel free. And oh yeah, I've lost 3lbs! I can't imagine what'll happen if I actually worked out ;o) That's the next battle!

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Lcyerra has shared a video with you on YouTube: loved this Sugar: The Real Truth ...Putting the USDA Recommendations in Perspective: To better grasp the USDA sugar recommendations, Consider that the average 12 to 19-year-old boy consumes about 2,750 calories and 1 ½ cans of soda with 15 teaspoons of sugars a day; the average girl consumes about 1,850 calories and one can with 10 teaspoons of sugars. Thus, typical teens just about hit their recommended refined-sugars limit from soft drinks alone. Adding in fruit drinks, candy, cookies, cake, ice cream, and other sugary foods, most teenagers exceed those recommendations by a large margin... For annotations of this video see: http://www.drbonine.com/sugar_movie_bibliography.html
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I love my fat.

Latest Research Debunks The Saturated Fat Diet Myths. 

Not the greatest article on this, I'll find better ones. 

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Date: Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 8:34 PM
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Fwd: Fooducate Blog - Insurance Companies Say: Quit the Fizzy Pop

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Subject: Fooducate Blog - Insurance Companies Say: Quit the Fizzy Pop

Fooducate Blog - Insurance Companies Say: Quit the Fizzy Pop

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Insurance Companies Say: Quit the Fizzy Pop Posted: 20 Aug 2011 05:48 AM PDT Via: Term Life Insurance Check out this infographic, published not by doctors, not by dietitians, and not by the government. This "propaganda" is disseminated by a for-profit organization that has a direct financial interest in reducing your junk food intake – an insurance company. For the full size graphic, click here. The checklist of cola induced maladies includes: asthma kidney disease due to phosphoric acid diabetes obesity heart disease tooth decay osteoporosis reproductive problems Perhaps this is a good time to point out that a family of 4 can save $500 a year simply by switching from soft drinks to tap water. This could well be the best health decision you'll ever make. [h/t to YG and The Kitchn] Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate

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