Welcome

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Welcome to the Epicurean Digest Blog - for the healthy epicurean in you. The Epi D blog features articles mostly about food related health issues, interesting topics, titbits of information as well as tips and quips here and there. Articles are of a cautionary nature or highlight the health benefits of a particular food,  ingredient or topic.   It is ...

Peru Bans Monsanto

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peru bans monsanto

A huge and embarrassing blow of David and Goliath proportions, the indigenous folk of Peru have fought long and hard to have Monsanto thrown out - and won.  Even if only for ten years until the case is up for review, this is a landslide victory that hopefully will inspire not only the rest of ...

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Six Tips for Better Health

Jumping in the Sunset

With so many confusing, conflicting and controversial information and media messages we are confronted with daily, it’s not easy to wade through it all to find the real gems of information that are easy and most importantly, really help. There are many things you can do to improve your health, but here is a good [...]

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Inside the Pharma Industry – Deceptive Marketing and Why Are We Not Surprised?

Pharma Deception

Global profits in the pharmaceutical industry for 2011, reached $650 billion with the US profits reaching nearly 50% or $325 billion.  That is almost a billion dollars a DAY.  For those with their calculators handy, that’s $890 million alone in the US.  However, with pharma drug sales increasing yearly, you can be sure that …

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The Butter Thing Again

butter and knife

Some topics just keep coming around and around again.  Like butter vs. margarine. Have you heard about the ‘butter is one molecule away from fat’ argument?  That impressed me at the time.  But even I wouldn’t make that my main argument because frankly, lots of things are ‘one molecule away from plastic’.  If you’ve got [...]

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Supermarket Secrets

supermarket secrets part 1

What is the real price you pay for convenience foods (and I don’t refer to monetary value)?  Is what you see on the shelves really as good as it appears to be and is the price really as good as it seems?  And do you believe that reading the labels is enough? Investigative journalist Jane Moore exposes the [...]

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Viruses Used to Eat Bacteria in Food

phage

In 2006, the FDA decided that to get rid of one pest, they would use another ‘pest’ to pester the pest…literally, to eat it.  The main pest, listeriosis which is a highly dangerous bacteria is now controlled in processed meats and cold cuts by a spray of the little pests…er…bacteriophage, which is a bacteria eating [...]

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Trendy Healthy Hype

warning tape

I can’t help it.  Most trends put me off because of the seemingly overnight bombardment of the latest silver bullet with whatever it is appearing in everything.  The skeptic in me pulls away with arms crossed and takes a ‘prove it’ stance.  In fact, it can take me years before I decide something is worth [...]

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