While teaching the college nutrition class for several years now some students have said that they cannot afford to eat healthy food including more vegetables and fruit in their diets. I have wondered if that premise was actually true. Then in the documentary Food, Inc. a poor working class family also said that they could [...]
Filed under: Genetic Modification on July 9th, 2010 | No Comments »
Summer finally arrived for us this year, much later than usual. So the garden got a very late start, but it’s bursting forth now as it soaks up all of that sunshine. I’m not complaining though about the late start of summer. I loved the rain and cool weather and so did the 2,000 Ponderosa [...]
Filed under: Children's Nutrition, Genetic Modification on July 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »
Time to share more about genetically modified food. In my preparation to teach the college nutrition course, I discovered some things about our food supply that surprised me. I really thought that I did not eat genetically modified food until the documentaries Food, Inc. and King Corn taught me some new things. Eighty-eight percent of [...]
Filed under: Genetic Modification on June 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
We’ll find out what Rejuvelac is – but first some great tips! My eyes were really opened to the health dangers of our current food supply in preparing for the nutrition course I recently taught. That preparation prompted me to watch several documentaries. Food, Inc. is a must see for everyone in my opinion. After [...]
Filed under: Genetic Modification, Healthy Drinks on June 11th, 2010 | No Comments »
In the last post we started looking at the ethical and moral implications of the manipulation of our food supply by genetically engineering the food. Biotech companies commonly genetically modify food to make it resistant to herbicides. So we have Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” corn seed. When farmers plant the corn, they can spray the herbicide [...]
Filed under: Genetic Modification on June 6th, 2010 | No Comments »
Hi, Wow, where did May go? It zipped by with all the preparation and then teaching of the nutrition class at Shasta Bible College. We had so much fun even though it was so time intensive. I love teaching college students. They so quickly grasp the importance of eating correctly for lifelong health and for [...]
Filed under: Genetic Modification on June 4th, 2010 | No Comments »