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  • And now – bad pet food

    I’ve written a lot about bad food and cosmetics for people – so it should not be a surprise that this news now comes along…..

    Many of us have pets – they keep us happy and healthy – check what you are feeding them just as you watch what you feed you

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths….

    The recall covers the company’s “cuts and gravy” style food, which consists of chunks of meat in gravy, sold in cans and small foil pouches between December 3 and March 6 throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico…

    The pet food was sold by stores operated by the Kroger Co., Safeway Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and PetSmart Inc.

    full article HERE

    The company has a list of the recalled food for dog and cats – HERE

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  • Another reason to exercise

    From Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain cells in a brain region linked with memory and memory loss, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

    Full article HERE

    So there may be a reason why I feel I get more cognitive work done after that morning exercise class?
    Hmmm….

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  • Over 65? Not so healthy…

    According to the Center for Disease Control, nearly 80% of those over 65 have at least one chronic condition and about 50 % have at least two.

    You can go to the CDC interactive site and check your state and others HERE

    You can also view the information by indicators such as:

    Health Status
    Physically Unhealthy Days
    Frequent Mental Distress
    Oral Health: Complete Tooth Loss
    Disability

    Health Behaviors
    No Leisure-Time Physical Activity
    Eating ≥ 5 Fruits and Vegetables Daily
    Obesity
    Current Smoking

    Among the overall USA findings:

    20% of people aged 65 and older are obese
    Almost 33% are sedentary
    25 % of the women aged 65 and older haven’t had a mammogram in the last two years
    Almost 6% report mental distress 14 or more days in the past month.

    Interestingly, to me, it varies widely from state to state like for obesity – Iowa is high – 24% but it’s not the cold winters as as Louisiana is at 25% and Maryland at 23% and they are warmer in the winter…

    Check your state – it’s interesting.

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  • Toxic skin care

    This is for the women readers who use make up and store bought skin care products…
    Here’s one short portion from an article:

    “Common ingredients found in U.S. personal-care products include phthalates, which have been linked to malformed or underdeveloped reproductive organs in males; formaldehyde, classified as a carcinogen; and parabens, endocrine-active preservatives that have been found in breast tumors. Many ingredients are exempt from labeling requirements because the product formulas are protected as proprietary, the report notes.”

    Here is some information to ponder – no matter how much good stuff you have in a skin product…if there are parabens present, they inhibit the cells from absorbing and benefiting from the nourishing ingredients in these products. They also are found in breast cancer tumors and become carcinogenic when in contact with the sun rays.

    So check to see if your skin care products contain parabens, preservatives or chemicals….

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  • Food Safety

    Eeks

    This has been a week of “bad” food news. Bad peanut butter, bad cooked packaged chicken breasts, tainted cantaloupe and recalled bad baby food are all in the news this week.

    I’m glad I am older and eat my supplements … food is undergoing a serious challenge these years. We have few family farms and the big conglomerates own the farm land, mass produce unhealthy “stuff” by over using fertilizer, pick the “stuff” before it is ripe, ship it off to far away places…and then tell us it’s good for us…

    Field ripened food is the food that contains the good things we need – ripening with chemicals or in the truck does not make for good nutrition. Have you ever noticed what the birds and bugs eat from your garden? It’s the ripened things – the unripened stuff is not even attractive to the pests. My dog awaits ripe strawberries before he goes to the plants – only then do I have to put up a barricade to keep him away…he knows…

    Today’s fruit has so little nutrition value we would need to eat 53 peaches today to get the nutritional value of what we got from 2 peaches back in 1951!

    The more we process the farms and the food, the less nutritious the food, or the more contaminated it is…and “they” want us to eat genetically modified food? Trust the big food corporations? Not me….

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