Junk News XIV: Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

Image via Wikipedia Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up. It seems as if the Beverage Industry is taking the possibility of a National Soda Tax very seriously. So should we. Even though soft drinks and sodas are not a direct cause of obesity, it cannot be ignored that soda and it’s main ingredient, [...]

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The Healthy Junk Chronicles: My Experiment with Junk I

Instead of going through the poetic prose I may use when writing for Fight dis-ease!, I’m just going to come out and say it: I got laid off of my corporate job recently. My official termination date has not approached as yet but I was still going into survival mode. Going in and out of [...]

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Junk News VI: Sugar is back…

Sugar Is Back on Food Labels, This Time as a Selling Point – NYTimes.com HFCS is the devil!! I will tell you that over and over again. But scientists are right….too much sugar isn’t good – no matter where it comes from! I’ll talk about it more in my next post. In the meantime, enjoy [...]

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