rachelstarr

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You raise many valid points, but there are always two sides to the coin, and as i said in my previous post majority of it boils down to ignorance. For example, everybody has this idea that Calories are bad, when that really is just not the case, lots of people see low calories and think OMFG its good for me. At the end of the day, this day in age, as long as you have a logical head on your shoulders its easy to seperate the crap from the good stuff. EVERYTHING is good in moderation.

Not to offend your parents here rachel, so please dont take offence, but back in the day so to speak, labels were not as clear, and i can sympathise with that, but this day in age its all there, its for the consumer to read the label. As with your parents deep frying stuff, again, not being offencive but it was ignorance, like you said you figured because u didnt gain weight, u didnt get sick you thought it was ok, it all boils down to ignorance.

As to the families struggling part, im sorry but thats parenthood, its down to the parents to love their children enough to actually get off their ass, and find out what they are feeding their kids and what exactly is in the KFC or Taco Bell. When you become a parent you accept responsibility for the life you have brought into this world, wrether its easy or not, its your duty, and if you fail on your duty, its your own fault.

However, i definately agree with you Rachel that the food companies are really devious, and there should be laws brought in through the entire world that states bad/goodness in food. Even so, again, it boils down to ignorance, if i see Corn Syrup, i know thats bad, if i see Corn Sugar, again, syrup is made from sugar, its bad regardless, sugar is sugar, even fruit sugars. Look at body builders, they shovel down 5000+ calories a day because they use the calories, they work the muscles to grow larger, and the calories they take in provide the energy for them to work out and grow stronger.

Eagerly awaiting your response, your alot more informed about the subject that most folk ;)

did you know that not all calories are even burned at the same rates depending on the kind of food you are getting them from. for instance say there is 500 calories in a donut, 500 calories in a salad, and 500 calories in some roasted chicken... when you get on a treadmill and it says you have burned 500 that's not entirely true either....

basically we could go on and on about all kinds of details and opinions... the whole point of the links to movies or my telling about books i'm reading is to spread information, getting people to think outside the box, get passionate about something, and share their thoughts/ points of view... and that is exactly what happened in this thread! SO I THANK YOU FOR THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX WITH ME AND SPREADING INFORMATION!

Lot of good points being made but to those that feel labels are accurate they typically are anything but. Whenever science discovers something about the human body everything shifts to the opposite of what it once was as far as health.

Example: MSG, thought to be a hazardous to your health as it's salt. Labels were rolled out on products stating "No MSG added", "MSG Free". People were said to sometimes have sensitivity to MSG. Then in 2004 a study stated that it shouldn't affect anyone even in large amounts.

Example: Beer, Wine and Liquor. has no ingredient list or nutrition facts. We were originally told drinking was horrible; it was prohibited. Then it was made okay because outlawing didn't work. Then we were told it still was unhealthy. Now we're told a beer or two a day might be good for you or a glass of wine a day might be etc...

Example: Labels such as "Organic", "Natural", "Farm Raised", "Cage Free", "Whole Grains" "Whole Wheat" and "Mixed Grains" have no basis or standard to live up to or to regulate what exactly they all mean. Some products are using them legitimately to display a healthier alternative; others are tacking them on just to intice buyers to spend money on them. While others are somewhere in the middle. There's little way to tell the difference.

Also I haven't noticed anyone mention the rule of thumb method for ingredient list reading. Whatever is listed first is in that product in the highest quantities. Let's take something many of us all loved and remember from our childhoods.

Log Cabin's Original flavored Maple syrup. Looking at the ingredient list: Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Water, Sugar Syrup, Pure Maple Syrup, Salt, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Caramel Color, Sodium Benzoate and Sorbic Acid (Preservatives), Artificial Flavor.

You can see the first four ingredients have little to do with any maple trees. It's essentially corn syrup marketed to us as Maple Syrup. But it still lists "Pure Maple Syrup" in it. How much exactly? A lot? or a little? How much compared to say the "Artificial Flavors"? If we weren't applying the rule of thumb method I mentioned there wouldnt' be an outright way to tell.

**My thanks to the 3 people that might read this as I had to retype it twice; posting failed because of servers being busy.

i totally agree
there is no way i could have explained that better than you did right here. great example you used too!
 

rachelstarr

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not true. the usda organic label is heavily regulated, stringent, and expensive to acquire.

i have heard that usda organic label is more regulated... although i haven't been about to study that far yet the difference and requirements...

but that furthers my point on what's on labels, how many people do you think buy ONLY usda organic label foods, i'd have to say probably less than 5%
 
Rachel, when is your official site launching? Is it in the works? A star of your caliber needs a mothership!
 
I liked it better when Rachel and Jayden were fighting! Oh well... Rachel is still 10 times better!
 
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