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The evil that is High Fructose Corn Syrup, also known as Rule 4

24 Monday May 2010

Posted by Clara K. Showalter in Books, Current Affairs, Fitness, Food and Drink, Weblogs

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fitness, food rules, health, high fructose core syrup, michael pollan, slow food

Rule 4- avoid products which contain high fructose corn syrup. Period, end of sentence.

We are going to do something a tad different this week. What I'd like you to do right now is go off to your fridge and open it. Pull out any product that is not a whole food item. In other words, if it lives in a bottle or a box, not a whole food in most cases. Now count up how many of those items contain the words high fructose corn syrup?

I'll wait.

In the interests of full disclosure, I've got a bottle of BBQ sauce with HFCS in it.

Now go count. Shoo!

Reply with the total count in the comments area. Any of those foods surprise you?

Current Score

06 Thursday May 2010

Posted by Clara K. Showalter in Books, Fitness, Food and Drink, Weblogs

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Tonight has some time blocked out to actually play with Typepad and try to get better with the features. So I shall be light on witty content.

To update those keeping track, current score is Table 1, Clara 3. So I'm ahead for the week. Wednesday kicked my rear in the table department, but I got it back today with lunch! So ha!

I'm also trying to get some duckies in a row regarding a trip I get to take later this summer. I'm heading to Europe! I've got two weeks in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy with the maternal unit. Needless to say I'm seriously stoked and doing my, "please Mister Volcano Do Not Ash On Me" dance. 

This has been a stressful week for many folks. I know it's not always easy to stay focused and on target. The thing that sets winners apart from also rans is the ability to overcome adversity. Most of us can deal with a minor glitch in the day. It's harder to deal with something like a flood destroying your home. For those going through a rough spot, and those who will go through a rough spot (which would be all of us), some thoughts on dealing with adversity courtesy of my work blog. 

(volcano pics courtesy of my friend Terje, who was actually standing right next to the erupting volcano. Crazy lunatic he is.)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Strawberries

10 Saturday Apr 2010

Posted by Clara K. Showalter in Books, Fitness, Food and Drink, Weblogs

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farmers market, fitness, food, food rules, healthy, michael pollan, slow food

You know, one of the wonderful things modern science gives us is non rotting food. I mean once upon a time I could buy a bag of organic green bits from my grocery store, toss it in the fridge and still be eating from said bag 2 weeks later. Know what? When you have real from the ground small farm produced greens- that doesn't quite happen!

As you may have guessed, I've had a bit of a week. Now it's not been a bad week. In the case of business things it's been quite good. Food wise it's been a royal pain in the rear. In part that's my doing. I've gotten increasingly sloppy in terms of food prep work. I know from experience that when I'm not prepping food, things happen.

This week things happening included defaulting to healthy but off plan favorites like string cheese and meal replacement bars. It also included a visit to Walgreens for leftover Easter candy. Hey, it's the end of Peeps season! And the Peeps are nice and stale. My favorite!

Ahem, still this is not how you build a primo physique. It shows in the scale and my energy levels. Progress this week was static. Nothing worse, but no improvements.

Because I've been eating erratically I'm also encountering the phenomenon of not so fresh food items. In particular my veggies. My green items are tending to wilt and spoil within about 5 days. This is a bit vexing when you are used to food that's being bred not for taste, but for storability and longevity. I'm relearning that food rots. In some cases quite rapidly if you don't pay attention to it.

Today's lesson included one on the nature of pretty food. Strawberries are starting to make an appearance at the local farmers markets. Now these are GOOD strawberries. As evidenced by the fact they are so ripe they are starting to get a tad soft. This means they are sweet! Strawberries are something I recall from my childhood. We had a couple neighbors who had strawberry patches. So I'm always mentally comparing the berries you get in the store to those. Store berries are again designed to ship and sit. These are ready to eat.

They are also not so pretty. I got some of the least strawberry looking berries you've seen. Strange berry shaped lumps, two berries growing together, and one that I think looked like Michelangelo. Teenage Mutant Ninja Strawberries! 

Nature at work. It doesn't always look pretty, but it still gets the job done and tastes good. We've gotten so fixated on perfect looking food, we forget that food isn't something just to look at. It needs to actually taste like something.

…speaking of taste, I think I have artichoke on the menu tonight. Why? Because I bought one last week and still haven't eaten it! Whoops! I hope it's still okay!

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