3 Foods to Avoid That Skyrocket Your Risk of Cancer

Good information here about three foods that increase the cancer risk. I've known about the sodium nitrate - pancreatic cancer risk for awhile, and that one is included in the bunch. Hydrogenated oil is also up there as well.

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Wendy's New Natural-Cut Sea Salt Fries

Wendy's is going to launch a new natural-cut fries with sea salt, which I think is frankly a move in the right direction. I'm sure there will probably still be something troubling about it, like the preservatives, artificial flavors, and whatever oil they use to cook it with (and the age/amount of re-usage of those oils) but all the same, I think this could be a good thing.

Problem is also the comment about "has 0 grams trans fat per serving." When I see this, I'm wary, because they are using FDA-approved lingo to say that the product may or may not have hydrogenated oil in it, but since the hydrogenated oil serving is so small per serving, it gets to sneak under the radar as officially "trans fat free". I'd be much more impressed if these were advertised as being made "without hydrogenated anything" (I've seen words to this effect used on some natural foods.)

Anyhow, I hope this trend continues, and although I do know better, I might try these with a Frosty sometime...

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Fresh Fruit

Some of the fruit served at one of the Disney resorts.  As much as I wasn't crazy about the overall Disney experience, I will admit this: some of their breakfast options were just fantastic.  Tons of fresh fruit, muffins, oatmeal, juice, waffles, etc.

Supposedly the parks all serve food without trans fat, but these days that can just mean a food manufacturer only using a tiny amount (less than a gram per serving) and then it slips in under the radar.  Not sure if its the same thing at the Disney parks or not (I did see a Snickers for sale at the Pirates of the Caribbean gift shop though...)

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Batgirl Re-Written

Just some silliness I reworded with PhotoShop...

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The Danger of Trans Fats and Hyrdogenated Oils

I great site with plenty of information about the danger of hydrogenated oils is Ban Trans Fats: The Campaign To Ban Partially Hydrogenated Oils. I like this site, and it has a lot of good information on the campaign to remove these harmful, plasticy artificial fats from foods. For a long time now, I've been avoiding ANY foods that have the word "hydrogenated" in the label, and I'm always anxious to find a site to provide more information about this nasty food additive.

The site points out something important, that even though FDA regulations state, "if the serving contains less than 0.5 gram [of trans fat], the content, when declared, shall be expressed as zero," this doesn't necessarily mean that the product is actually trans fat free.... it just has a very small content of trans fats! So if you eat enough of this product, you'll still be ingesting trans fats, just in a smaller dosage. I think that this labeling is deliberately deceptive, and there need to be some changes to make this labeling system more accurate... and honest!

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