Health's A ChoiceTips on Taking Control of Your Health

Many shoppers looking for healthier foods are familiar with Horizon milk and other “organic” products. Horizon food is a division of Dean Food’s. Marketors  know the advertising claims, “natural”, “organic” or “healthy” are all- important catch phrases are big sellers to the health crowd in spite of the fact that these words are hardly regulated [...]

I was cruising through Costco isles the other day and had tasted Morning Star’s Black Bean Burgers before and absolutely love them. Now before you head on down to the store and purchase these tasty quick burgers that sounds healthy it may not be that healthy. I have found out that just because it looks [...]

As a elementary student I remember those Friday’s that were hot dog day. I always dreaded them because I was of those minority of kids that hated hot dogs. So I would say no meat just chili and onions. Of course I got it on wonderful nutritious white bun, yeah right. After reading the article [...]

Meet MSG’s little-known brother
Recent massive snack recalls are turning attention to HVP, a “substitute” for MSG that’s basically the same thing
By Sara Breselor
This week has seen a rash of foods recalled due to possible contamination with Salmonella Tennessee, ranging from selected flavors of Pringles to Herb-Ox bouillon to Quaker brand snack mix (see the complete [...]

Yikes, I am one of the people who like to go to Costco and pick up some Earth Bound organic spinach of field greens and just drop then in the salad bowel. After reading an article on the safety of these triple washed greens it made me think twice about throwing them in the bowel [...]

While I think healthful habits are important for long term health I certainly do not like people legislating my health habits. Did you hear that New York’s Nazi style state politicians are banning salt in restaurant food preparation? A New York politician by the name of Felix Ortiz introduced this absurd bill on March 5th. [...]