ConAgra’s Chef Boyardee brand is out with a whole grain canned pasta product – Chef Boyardee Pasta, Whole Grain, Beefaroni – and they’re letting the world know about it. Take a look at this “silent” commercial where parents are hiding the whole grain truth from their daughter. If she thinks it’s healthy, she’ll refuse to eat it.
OK, we’ll just out and say it – double dumb family.
Once, for thinking that duping a child is the only way to get her to eat healthfully. Twice for buying into the whole grain health halo (see below). We dug around the nutrition facts and ingredient lists of the original vs. the new beefaroni, and found the following…
What you need to know:
Ingredients of the original product: (3 grams of fiber)
Tomatoes (Water, Tomato Puree), Water, Beef, Enriched Macaroni (Semolina Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Riboflavin [Vitamin B2] and Folic Acid), Contains Less than 2% of: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Modified Corn Starch, Enzyme Modified Cheese (Cheddar Cheese [Pasteurized Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes]), Flavorings and Soybean Oil.
Ingredients of the whole grain product: (3 grams of fiber, just as before)
Tomatoes (Water, Tomato Puree), Water, Beef, Pasta (Whole Wheat Flour, Semolina Wheat Flour), Less than 2% of: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Modified Corn Starch, Flavorings, Enzyme Modified Cheese (Cheddar Cheese [Pasteurized Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes], Water, Sodium Phosphate, Xanthan Gum), Potassium Chloride, Maltodextrin, Citric Acid, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate, Soybean Oil.
Here’s why we don’t like this product (not that the original was any good either):
1. You’re paying for a lot of water – it’s the first ingredient!
2. There may be some whole wheat, but the amount must be so low that it doesn’t add any more fiber to the meal. Note that the product is not 100% whole grain, there is still enriched flour here. The company is marketing “whole grain pasta” because they know people are looking for whole grains to increase fiber intake. But fact is this is mixed whole & enriched wheat pasta. There IS NO additional fiber. Scam.
3. For some reason, 5 additives that were not used in the original product have been added here: Potassium Chloride, Maltodextrin, Citric Acid, Disodium Guanylate, Disodium Inosinate. These are all flavor enhancers that you wouldn’t add to a home cooked meal. They weren’t even added to the original Chef Boyardee recipe.
4. 750 mg of Sodium per serving (that a third of the daily maximum). This is lower than than the original formula (990 mg), and perhaps explains all those additives added – they help fill in the void of the missing salt. But why not use real spices such as basil, oregano, parsley, as well as garlic and onion?
On the plus side, the new formula has only 3.5 grams of saturated fat vs. 4.5 grams in the original. Either ConAgra is using leaner cuts of beef or they cut back on 20% of the beef content.
Bottom line: Chef Boyardee’s Whole Grain Beefaroni is just another example of unjustified health halos for highly processed food products.
What to do at the supermarket:
If you want to reap the benefits of a whole grain pasta product, make sure it’s 100% whole grain. Going the canned route – watch for crazy high sodium counts, you really want to keep it under 500mg per serving.
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Sign in now“People with soy allergies needn’t worry about products containing soy lecithin, because it is derived from the soybean oil, whereas the allergy itself relates to the soy protein.”
This is absolutely untrue, and dangerous misinformation. I have a severe adult-onset soy allergy, and experience a reaction to soy lecithin, and soybean oil, as well as raw, cooked, fermented, processed, or any other form or expression of soy-derived ingredients. It’s this kind of misinformation that is incredibly dangerous to people with soy allergies.
Please remove the statement from your website.
I agree with J in VA about the home-rendered lard. This ridiculous “saturated fat is bad” motto is really irritating. Fat is essential to health but as with everything else, you need to consider the source of that fat. Hydrogenated fats, fat from cornfed beef, and GMO oils are all terrible for us. Just because those fats are the ones used exclusively in the processed food industry, you shouldn’t ignore the fact that there are healthy fats and we need to cook with more of them. If readers are still too terrified to use lard or tallow from grass fed animals, they can try virgin coconut oil or raw butter as a suitable substitute for shortening.
Fooducate, shame on you for encouraging canola oil in recipes. Canola is no better than cottonseed or soybean oil and should not be recommended as a “healthy fat”. All of those oils are made from GM crops which are some of the most heavily sprayed crops in the world. Don’t let that “organic” label fool you: there is evidence of GMO contamination of even the “organic” fields of these crops. You have to assume that some of the readers are cooking for entire families which can include small children. Small children need saturated fat for healthy brain development and canola oil isn’t going to do it. It’s time someone noticed that the children from fat-free homes are suffering just as much nutritionally (albeit from different problems) as children from fast food homes.
Making biscuits couldn’t be easier than my grandmother’s method. She had a huge bowl with a lid that she used to store the dry ingredients. When she wanted to make biscuits, she simply added the fat and the milk and mixed them in a well in the center. This allowed her to add flour to the wet mixture easily until the biscuit dough was perfect consistency. She made biscuits almost every day of her life using this method. There is no box or mix that could have made it faster.
One other note: any ingredient that is vitamin enriched or fortified contains GM corn as the vitamin carrier (and sometimes the vitamin itself is derived from GM corn). Be sure to use unenriched organic flour and organic milk that isn’t fortified (hard to find, I know) if you don’t relish the idea of GM corn oil in your milk.
I think more Americans should vote with their dollars. It is a lot of work, but we can avoid contributing to the industrial food machine which is the only way improvements will be made. As long as processed foods are so profitable, they will continue to gain market shares and swallow up the competition (small farms growing actual food instead of endless acres of GM monoculture crops). Shop at farmers markets and food co-ops and buy only foods that aren’t advertised on television (or better still, cut off the television). Try to minimize purchases of items with an ingredient label instead of spending so much time trying to decipher them. Use your pocketbook to encourage growth of grassfed beef, pastured eggs and diverse organic food crops and discourage highly processed pseudo-food.
I am allergic to corn so I already do all those things, but I didn’t know how until I did a ton of research on avoiding corn. Even well-meaning consumers can’t avoid GM crops unless they are aware of them. Almost 80% of the corn grown in America is GM and all of it is combined when processed. If it is made from corn in the US, you have to assume it contains genetically modified organisms. Hidden sources of GMO’s include the corn wax on the pretty red peppers and apples in the produce section, citric acid saturated soaker pad beneath fresh beef and chicken, cornstarch inside the packaging of deli meats and dusting shredded cheese and frozen vegetables, vitamin enrichment of wheat flour and cow’s milk, cheese-making enzymes (all of the major American brands), Hawaiian papayas, zucchini, pectin in yogurt, vitamin D3 in dairy products, iodine in salt, citric acid residue in bottled water, corn adhesive in tea bags, coffee beans roasted in dextrose, and on and on. Now, even some of the packages are made from corn like cups from Starbucks, those clear plastic containers full of fresh berries, styrofoam meat trays and some disposable silverware and straws.
I know this is a very difficult thing to do (believe me!) but we have a long history in America of going out of our way to make change. Remember dumping perfectly good tea into the harbor to protest taxes, walking to work instead of taking the bus to protest discrimination, riding bicycles instead of SUVs to protest dependency on foreign oil, going to jail to win the right to vote, growing a victory garden to help the war effort, marching for equal rights. Avoiding the purchase of GMOs is the only way we will break their hold on our economy, health, government policies, environment and future.
Why doesn’t one of the dairy companies try making a sweetened flavored milk using real cane sugar instead of corn syrup? Pretending that HFCS and cane sugar are exactly equal is the problem once again. Cane sugar is not a health food, but it isn’t an endocrine disrupting, appetite stimulating, genetically modified, chemically extracted food additive like high fructose corn syrup, either. It is time everyone started noticing that the empty calories from HFCS are not even the worst of its effects on the human body. HFCS and other corn derivatives directly cause weight gain. Remove all corn derivatives from the diet and appetite decreases and excess weight drops. Try it if you don’t believe me.
Two award winning allergists have just recently confirmed allergy to a sugar molecule so the idea that only proteins induce allergic reactions is now proven to be totally inaccurate. The people with food allergies knew this to be true for years but allergists just didn’t believe them. I hear that ridiculous statement about proteins all the time in my quest for corn-free and soy-free foods. That blatant misinformation makes my life much harder than it has to be. The fact that FAAN (Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network) actually perpetuates that falsehood is perhaps the most upsetting of all.
@kc
I would like to see the article if you could link it please
@kc
I don’t think GM crops are some of the most heavily sprayed… most of the time they modify them so they DON’T have to spray as much… follow?
Wow! I’m loving your site. I’ve been scrolling through all morning. I feel the same way you do about food (real vs fake, etc). I’m loving this site.
Homemade muffins can be okay (you can usually substitute applesauce for 1/2 the sugar.)
Classic food industry flavor disguises.
Disodium guanylate and disodium inosinate, notice “sodium” within their names…this is still sodium, just chemical derivates, so they replace salt with a flavor enhancing salt compound. These compounds are usually used along with monosodium glutamate (MSG) to create an earthy flavor. If that’s the case, why not add mushrooms?
The “whole grain” product may have 200 grams less than the original, but it still account for almost 1/3 of your recommended daily intake. Not something you would want to feed your family.
Entirely shameful!
This is sort of behaviour that earns the makers of processed foods their negative reputation. It’s one thing to produce foods that have low nutritional value — everyone likes an unhealthy treat now and then — but no one wants to be misled about the food they’re eating.
Chris MacDonald
Food-ethics.com
“If she thinks it’s healthy, she’ll refuse to eat it.”
My first thought, even before seeing the ingredients, was “Well then, I guess she’ll have no problems with this product.”
Sure diet drinks aren’t good for you, but most things like this (pleasurable), are addicting anyways. I myslef have a iron will aginst addiction, and this is something everyone should practice. Theese things are only negative for you if you if you drink it like crazy. Drink only around 2 to 3 a week and your good, i mean also in around 2 day serperations. This way you don’t get the least bit addicted, no extra calories, and best of all , you get to drink a soda. BTW, try smartwater, its great and its water… best thing you can drink
As an alternative we make ants on a log with bananas, peanut butter, and choc. chips or raisins.
Carrots dipped in peanut butter is another favorite here.
I live in NY but visited California a few years back after moving away and love mexican food. So I stopped in and tried Chipotle by the urging of my son. I am very health conscious and never eat at McDonald’s~ We used to. Knowledge=power.
I would buy the burrito, eat half and cut out cheese as well. But yes pork is going to be higher in sodium by nature as compared to chicken, beef or vegi options. So you do have options at this chain, and more flexible for those of us who may be vegitarians than at McD.’s.
I just wanted to put out there info re-quarding the restaurants. Since you were at a point comparing the two. ~~ They are both owned by McDonald corporation.~~~ McDonald’s bought into the restaurant then opened more stores out west.
So as I applauded how Chipotle is marketed….. it all boils down to who’s at the top. And that being said is McDonald’s. So keep that in mind when thinking you are doing something better. You never really know do you? Every time you eat outside your home you are choosing to take a a chance with your health by the unknown.
Another idea is to make your own fruit roll ups by drying pureed/cooked fruits (i.e. peaches, applesauce, berries, pears, apricots).
Just think, if feeding your children a meal strongly resembles the act of opening a can of dog food for your pet, something’s definitely missing.
My favorite, my kids favorite and the snack that the other kids would trade for:
1/2 apple with a walnut half in the seed core hole, frosted with peanut butter and then lots of raisins on top (arrange the raisins on a plate and press the peanut butter covered apple in it to completely cover the peanut butter so it’s not sticky and packs well).
Kids love this one!
Keep in mind that healthy snacks and a brown bagged lunch will not solve the problem of a toxic food environment.
http://www.betterschoolfood.com/brown-bagging-myth/
We all need to roll up our sleeves on the local level to create more opportunities for food based education in our schools and communities.
That is a crock about less sugar means kids won’t like it. I often let my son have chocolate milk, but I always put half chocolate milk then half white milk. He likes it just fine, in fact he loves it! Plus it goes a longer way. I wish all these corps would stop making assumeing the worst of our kids and let them make up their own minds! Isn’t that what education is for?
I would just like to remind everyone to use organic wheat flour without vitamin enrichment when making homemade snacks to avoid GMOs. Also, remember that trail mixes, lara bars and peanut butter may not be allowed at most schools anymore because of deadly nut allergies. I suggest buying a dehydrator and learning to make tasty seasoned dried veggies, fruit and meat at home. Avoid diet, low-fat, fat-free and reduced calorie everything – they always contain more GMO corn-derived additives than whole fat versions. Buy organic, unfortified dairy products to avoid GMO corn-derived vitamin carriers. If you don’t have a lot of time in the morning (and who does?), make lunches the night before and wash, peel, slice all veggies ahead of time and place individual servings in snack size containers for “grab-and-go” convenience.
My last suggestion: look into bento boxes as a way to make leftovers and fresh vegetables into an enviable lunch using cute food picks and shape cutters, packaged in a neat bento box. http://www.obentolunch4kidz.com/
The scientist who did the research didn’t say water helps make you feel full. She said both groups consumed the same number of calories and she doesn’t know why the water-drinking group lost more weight.
As for the question of how much weight was lost by each group, I think it’s interesting that people in the water-drinking group continued to drink water even when the 3-month study was over and continued to lose weight over the next 9 months. The control group gained back a couple of pounds, so the difference at the end of a year was 8 pounds. I wonder how both groups fare after two years, or five.
@Corey
Actually, that is incorrect. Most of them are modified to withstand herbicides so that the entire field can be sprayed and only the weeds will die. Obviously, herbicides are useless without transgenic crops so non-GMO crops don’t get sprayed with herbicides at all. That leaves pesticides and fertilizers which are absolutely necessary in large monoculture crops and less important when using crop rotation and biodiversity practices. The amount of pesticides and fertilizers necessary to grow genetically modified crops increase every year. (http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMCIPU.php) Now, there are “superweeds” which can’t be killed with Round-up (herbicide the crops are genetically modified to withstand) just like the “superbugs” that no longer respond to normal antibiotics. None of this even addresses the increased allergenic properties of GMO crops and the damage they do to our digestive system when we ingest them. GMOs are a failure and a fraud.
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/SpreadtheWord/HealthRisksBrochure/index.cfm
@Sarah
I agree. Kids are actually “taught” to prefer the high sugar drinks. Anyone that cuts all sugar from their diet can attest to the fact that you need much less when resuming it. If kids weren’t given highly sweetened treats every day, regular milk would taste just fine to them.
@Kelton Baker
AMEN! Serving up a big heaping helping of GMO corn in GMO corn sauce, with added GMO corn.
Sadly, many people are eating the whole cookie for a morning snack, the whole sandwich for lunch, the whole muffin for afternoon snack and the whole steak for dinner along with a baked potato and sour cream AND breakfast AND sitting for 15 hours per day. It’s a recipe for obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Retailers need to reduce their portion sizes if they want to keep their patrons alive.
In Europe, they use a 100g serving size for everything, regardless of package size or what is customarily consumed. It not only lets you compare similar products like one brand of cookies vs another but it lets you compare cookies to icecream to cake on an even basis
What about the mono- and diglycerides? I ask that not knowing anything about them other than what wikipedia says (used to blend stuff like oil and water that doesn’t normally blend well).
Great post! I am always skeptical of brand that come out with “natural” peanut butter b/c they often are not in fact natural. What’s surprising for me to learn here is that JIF is under Smuckers and Smuckers does have a truly natural peanut butter. Very interesting!
Palm oil is used in SE Asian cooking – go find a jar at your local Asian market; it looks like candle wax. It is incredibly common but is one of the worst possible fats out there as far as saturated fat is concerned. Other “natural” saturated include coconut oil, and of course butter, tallow and lard.
I’m not as afraid of saturated fats as most of the health experts who are commenting here. In my opinion, saturated fats are not the big issue with Palm oil. The real issue with palm oil is the fact that most palm oil is not raised sustainably. That means rainforests are being plundered at an alarming rate so that Jif and other big food corps can use palm oil in their products in place of hydrogenated oils.
Destroying rainforests have a huge impact on CO2 levels and climate change. And that, my friends, is the biggest issue that we need to be concerned about.
http://www.ran.org/content/problem-palm-oil
I urge all of you to climb on down the rabbit hole and learn about the true environmental impact of the food you’re eating or recommending.
Personal health and planetary health are directly connected.
Great post! Also surprised that Jif is owned by Smuckers because I’ve seem the Smuckers natural peanut butter and it’s not bad.
I’m a mom of a toddler and registered dietitian, and my son eats a peanut butter sandwich at least 5 days a week and it matters what’s in it. “Natural” peanut butter for me is just peanuts. No other oils. No sugar. No salt. That kind of peanut butter needs to be in your fridge after you open it.
Hydrogenated oils are trans fats. Nodbody, especially kids, should be eating trans fats. Palm oil is healthy. For humans, anyway. But as noted above, jungles are being destroyed to make palm oil plantations, which is driving orangutans to extinction. You can buy peanut butter with just peanuts in it and skip the other ingredients.
http://www.cspinet.org/palm/
This product contains “Fully Hydrogenated oil”, yet we always here about the trans fat that come from “partially hydrogenated oils. I am assuming they are both bad trans fats, but is one better or worse?
@Chuck: as I understand it, partially hydrogenated oils are trans fats, which are extraordinarily bad for our heath. Fully hydrogenated oils are saturated fats, which are bad for our health, although reasonable people disagree as to how bad.
Anyone with the appropriate scientific background feel free to chime in here. And please tell us about the mono- and diglycerides as well
Interesting to compare the two since Mc Donald’s used to be a huge investor in Chipotle and helped turn it into the large franchise it is today. My husband can eat an entire burrito in one sitting, which is why I keep him away from those places and cook every night except for weekends.
@Cathy
Me! Three ounces of steak is just right for me. When I go out to a steakhouse with my friends, they order a 12 oz steak and give me a corner of it. After three ounces of steak, I wonder who will win in the eating battle…me or the cow!
Thanks for the mention Hemi!
Great snack suggestions – those are my go to foods as an adult too!
I have no issues with Agave Nectar. I use the Raw Unprocessed kind.. and yes there is a difference even though many cry otherwise. However some manufacturers abuse the labeling. It’s key to know and trust those who make the products you take into your body.
A few reasons why I use it.. 1- I don’t have to use as much. So to your point comparing if you eat a pound of each… THATS the key. With Agave I use WAY less to achieve the same sweetness. 2- Fructose is what you find in NATURAL fruits like apples, etc. Fructose is absorbed into the body slower than sucrose(therefore the much lower glycemic index) so there’s no Spike then Crash of your blood sugar which causes one to lose energy and BURN LESS CALORIES. And finally.. 3- Sugar is processed using Animal products such as BONE CHARCOAL! ICK!
So to sum it up… Agave allows me to moderate my sugar intake a great deal!
As parents we can also talk to our kids and encourage them to be leaders and trend setters in rejecting this kind of crap.
I think the daily protein requirement is 3-4 oz. That’s all the body needs, Anything more just leads to being overweight and a host of other health problems. Also agree with the person who said not to eat processed food. Probably most of the obesity problem comes from eating it. I wouldn’t care so much except that we all have to pay for the health cost of other people’s bad choices with our health insurance (if you can afford to have any).
@Chuck
According to the Harvard nutrition site linked below, fully hydrogenated oils are NOT trans fats. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/nutrition-news/transfats/
I am amazed that this article takes the time to discuss the chemistry of hydrogenation, but does not mention the link between trans fats and increased risk of coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction. I am guessing the author is assuming that readers are already aware of this? Anyway, a partially hydrogenated oil is indeed a trans fat. Most conventional peanut butters contain partially hydrogenated oils (actually, everyone that I have encountered has). This is an interesting exploration on the labeling term “natural”, however. I am guessing they are trying to attract consumers who prefer organic foods to buy inorganic products?
LOL, you’re right. I *was* a math teacher before kids. Childbirth messed up my brain! But it’s still less sugar than commercial stuff, and without all the extra ingredients they add in. As an occasional treat, I’m ok with that.
I love the psychology here. Say something is bad and 90% agree. We assume things are bad and we are constantly paying some cosmic price for the lives we lead. Artificial sweeteners ARE anywhere from 90-600% as sweet as sugar. What someone else already explained in a comment was that they use that to match the sweetness, meaning that they use a sliver of the amount of sugar that would have been used. That’s how there is essentially 0 calories.
Also, why is it that every one of these evil foods or evil ingredients all cause obesity, diabetes, migraines, etc? Could it be that these ailments are common and anything suspected of not being good for you, gets scapegoated as the cause? Luckily, we set tolerances for food additives so far below their respective toxicity levels, that it’s practically impossible to get sick from them.
I’m a teacher and I have been fighting a battle at my middle school for several years now to get rid of the junk food sold in the cafeteria at a window called the Grab and Go. Unfortunately, I’ve made more enemies than friends, but I feel it is definitely a battle worth fighting.
The big question I keep asking is…Why would a school sell anything to a child that they know isn’t good for them?
Do we offer them cigarettes or pornography at school? Do we let kids use vulgar or offensive language at school? Of course not. We know it’s not good for them.
Schools use data every day to make decisions about what to teach and how to teach it, yet they ignore all the research data on kids and nutrition!
Schools conduct monthly fire drills, tornado drills, and lock down drills to keep kids safe, but yet they continue to sell kids junk food that they know is not good for them. Why is this allowed?
Parents have to wake up and demand that junk not be sold at their child’s school.
You don’t know the half of it! My adopted home state also specializes in fried margaritas, fried Frito Pie, fried Pop Tarts and even, yes, fried butter. Not to mention the cheeseburger served on glazed donuts. See “If It Can Be Fried, It Will Be Fried,” http://www.thelunchtray.com/lunch-tray-friday-buffet-august-27-2010/
This is a double whammy!
I have some real natural and organic peanut butter that is made with peanuts and a trivial amount of salt. That’s all. The best buy date is December 2010 and that’s fine with me.
Why do we need something that lasts through the middle of next year? It certainly isn’t fresh at that point.
And why do we need to add palm oil at all? Isn’t there enough oil in the peanuts already? Clearly it’s not necessary as there are perfectly good (and delicious) nut butters out there without it.
Tomato is not a vegetable.
As for the cardboard if this was a while/years past, than it is in cardboard I imagine for the cut backs in production, no plastic made it cheaper to package. In a frozen state of packing, it would be fine if it’s only going to be made into something right away on another belt. I am truly turned to not eat hot dogs, mostly based on not knowing what is put into them. That isn’t fair, nor is it healthy. They leave an odor in our tastebuds and after in all our body for like one week.
Fellow parents: speak up if you are unhappy with a food issue at your child’s school! This is something I’ve been doing lately, and it’s finally working. When you speak up, tell your friends to do the same; it helps you gain credibility.
Also, don’t give them money so they can’t spend it on junk lol
@Lina
yap you will be round-up ready soya lecitin
@ Madison
How are vegans that eat meat and cheese substitutes cheaters?
Most of us become vegan because of the way animals are treated, not for dietary reasons. I myself don’t generally eat substitutes but I have no problem with it; it doesn’t matter if it looks and tastes like meat/cheese as long as its vegan. Sure it may not be healthy but I didn’t go vegan for my health so its not cheating.
I think you are mistaken unless they changed it but the fiber is 2g per serving. I am sitting here reading the box and eating a bowl as I type this.
I would love the opportunity to be a Fooducate Product Tester. Contact me. I’m in!
I would love to test products for you but sadly I live in the UK.
Where did u get the 50 g protein per day? Actually, protein needs vary quite a bit, depending on a person’s weight and goals. I find many people I come in contact with aren’t getting enough protein. Protein needs are higher when your trying to lose weight, build muscle, and if you do endurance sports. Protein is also important for satiety. My experience is people get too many carbs and not enough protein.
Rebecca
Hi Rebecca, you are right – 50g is the average. Just like 2000 calories is the average.
On average, most Americans meet or surpass their DV of protein.
And there seems to be too much focus on protein in food marketing.
I’m not talking about athletes like you and your clients
We’d love to test products for you!
Thank you so much for the review. I have been wanting to try Greek yogurt but didn’t want to get “surprised” by a less than palatable product. Thanks also for the protein note. After all the diet hype about protein needs its nice to have someone pull us back into reality. Love what you are doing here, its good enough to share always!!! Blessings,
Patty
Actually, Fried Beer WON the award for Most Creative at the Big Tex competition yesterday!
I will gladly test and review products for you!
The reason I was so excited about the protein is that, I don’t eat much meat at all and find this as a good way to find other forms of protein besides beans and legumes.
I would love to test products on behalf of Fooducate! Please count me in!
In culinary school, there would be students trying to fry anything, I’ve seen fried soups, but BEER? Innovative and creative, yes. But really, who would crave deep fried beer?
The major difference is between the soybean and rapeseed (canola) oil in the original and palm oil in the “natural” version. If you look at the overall chemical make-up of the oils, soybean and rapeseed, are some of the best you can consume. Rapeseed, which is refered to as canola due to its unsightly name, has a large amount of the “good” fats, (unsaturated) our bodies need. Palm oil has very little of these “good” unsaturated fats and lots of the saturated fats.
The mono- and diglcyerides mentioned are emulsifiers, which are artificially added to protect the shelf life. (this is probably why they don’t consider the original version “natural”) Also, canola and soybean oils are also prone to rancidity as with many unsaturated fats, which is another reason they add emulsifiers.
Basically Jif adds emulisifiers to the the original, which is made with decent oils, then making a “natural” version with oils loaded with saturated fats, which is marketed to nutritionally savvy consumers, which is in fact, worse for you in terms of saturated fats, than the original.
I’m also a food product skeptic but I’d gladly give some a go and write a review for you.
@Cassie
Oh, and thanks for letting me do this!
http://www.westonaprice.org/soy-alert.html
As a nutritionist & new mom, I enjoy & learn from your product reviews & would love the opportunity to taste-test & review products for Fooducate!
Keep us questioning the labels & advertising!
Great info about the yogurt. I like adding Vanilla extract and thawed out frozen berries to the greek yogurt rather than buying the ones already sweetened with fruit. As a Certified Nutritionist (and Mom), I am always searching for good, tasty, healthy food to recommend my clients and for my family. Please keep me in mind as a product tester….
I’m a young granola mom of three toddlers…send anything my way and I’ll review it!
It’s a tough battle. I have a side business, Good For You Vending, that offers healthy snack alternatives to chips and candy bars. I started with vending machines at my alma mater but with junk food machines right next to mine I was outsold at least 10 to 1 on snacks. Junk food is a huge money-maker (via commission) for the schools. I have since moved the machines to other locations and am now focusing my efforts on selling my snacks at businesses committed to boosting employee wellness.
I’d appreciate an opportunity to be part of your food testing community. I have made my friends and family crazy for years by reading and deciphering food labels, then giving them the bad news about what they were actually putting in their bodies and throwing away money on. They might actually take me more seriously if I were testing for you.
Cassie, did the non-fat and low-fat taste the same, or are you describing just one of them (and which)? Often when people describe Greek yogurt as creamy/rich, they are referring to those with more fat (e.g., the low-fat one here has cream added, whereas the non-fat one doesn’t; and whole milk ones contain about 20 g fat and twice the calories). Just curious.
Note that the reason Greek yogurt has less sugar is due to straining out of the whey (which contains some sugars) as well as the longer fermentation process (which allows the bacteria to consume more of the natural milk sugars). But this often results in a more sour yogurt, unless it has added fat, which helps temper the sourness.
As for making nutrition comparisons between yogurts, remember that portion sizes vary with container size. An FDA serving size is 8 oz, but when yogurt comes in a 6 oz container, 6 oz is the serving size. And because Greek yogurt has less water, it will naturally have more protein, etc. per same volume as regular yogurt, so comparing Greek 8 oz to regular 6 oz won’t give a true comparison.
You’re not quite on the mark Amorette – the oils in the original are fully-hydrogenated, thus they are no longer unsaturated, rather they become saturated fat, just as the palm oil is. Nutritionally, they are equivalent – this is even reflected on the label.
One more note on the mono- and diglycerides – that’s what keeps the peanut butter from seperating, thus the note that says “seperation is natural” in the “natural” kind of peanut butter.
I am so curious if this is an actual shopping cart/food she would eat or put there to be funny. I am hoping for the latter but unsure. I have such good memories sitting in the shopping cart shopping with my mother as she selected fruit, greeted the butcher and let me taste samples at the deli counter. I initially loved shopping with my children but do find I end up with extras I’m not always thrilled with.
I don’t want to judge…. But I really hope they aren’t giving him Doritos…
I love hearing more about Greek yogurt, though I think the adjective of choice would be ‘tart’ rather than bitter, an altogether different mouth taste.
Poisonous foods are ‘bitter’.
Lemons, plain yogart should be tart IMHO.
merci
carolg
Hi – I appreciate everything about this blog and look forward to it on a regular basis, but shame on you for really giving this obvious loser more “air time”.
I understand that there may be people out there who look to this twisted family (Kardashians) as inspiration or an idol. But I would bet good money it’s not the people who frequent this blog.
Ugh is right. Unfortunately I see that shopping cart load with mommies all the time. They bring their own shopping bags and then fill their carts with blech.
I also let my older kids (3 and 12) pick a treat. The three year old usually wants dried apricots but the twelve year old usually opts for gatorade… oh well at least my cart is full of mostly whole foods. I do buy ice cream! It’s mommy and daddy’s treat
I am hoping that photo was just for show and she feeds her kid better then that, but I have seen some pretty horrific things at the grocery store.
I love bringing my kids shopping. They love it too. They usually choose a chocolate treat but often they will choose a book, notebook or special pencils.
I almost always have my kids with me when I shop. My 4 year points out stuff all the time that her friends eat, and she wants
I read the ingrediant list, then usually say no.. She seems to understand. Althuogh I’m getting a bit nervous she gonna go up to one particler child’s mom. And tell her that, this & that are not healthy. She’s already told me, “well someone better tell his mom, cause he brings that everday” So yes bring your kids shopping, just be prepaired to tell them the truth;) My kids no we don’t buy cookies, but we can make them. We don’t buy waffles or pancakes, we make them. ect..
It’s not true that, if given a choice, children will always pick junk. My children survived for YEARS without even discovering the crap at checkout. They were busy with the good stuff we had in the cart, and since they’d never EATEN junkfood, or seen their parents eat it, they had NO IDEA what was in those wrappers. Thus they were no more interested in the M&M package than they were in the auto trinkets or the cleaning supplies. Lead by example. They’ll follow. Really, they will.
Count me in, too! Testing products would be awesome!
–Kim
I saw Toy Story apples at Target a few weeks ago. So when I read your article I had to google it to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. Nope! Check out this story: http://www.idsgn.org/posts/things-we-dont-need-disney-branded-produce/
I have always brought my kids and by 6 they could read labels now when they ask for something I just say read the label and they know what to look out for HFCS< MSG< FOOD COLOR…ect if its on there they just put it back because they know its bad for their bodies. BTW as for Ms. Kardashian many young mothers do feed their kids that way, I was a young, too young mother and feed my oldest lots of junk know that I have educated myself, my oldest (19) says Mom it's a miracle I'm not fat, you used to feed me all the junk and I tell her I am sorry I didn't know then but I do now!
Coco Vita has kept me hydrated, refreshed, and energized…much better than any sport or energy drink which are usually a waste of calories or sugar. It’s affordable and worth every penny.
I once watched, impressed, as a mother denied her daughter a food item with red food dye in it, acknowledging that they don’t eat food dye. The child protested that there was only a little, but the mother held firm.
Moments later the mother picked up a box of junk cereal (Sugar Smacks or something). The sound I heard in my mind was similar to a deflating balloon.
I still don’t know/remember why the Kardashians are famous except that they had a reality TV show. Every time I think of my Kardashian ignorance I’m reminded of the episode of How I Met Your Mother that Kim Kardashian appeared on: “You’re right, super hot lady that my wife keeps telling me why you’re famous but I keep forgetting.”
Don’t even get me started as to how many things are wrong with that picture, not to mention the interest in the Kardashians in the first place…
I would love to be a fooducate tester.
Oh my goodness, you are kidding me! Miss Kardashian is going to have trouble keeping her figure if she’s eating all that and lets hope none of it is for the little Kardashian!
first of all i think that is not a shocker it just makes me feel like america is trying to shorten american life span. watch the next thing we find out is the Dimethylpolysiloxane or TBHQ leads to some type of cancer
I want to become a fooducate tester please!
I didn’t bring my kids food shopping until they were older, i.e. could understand “good” food vs “bad” food. (i know- i’m lucky i had coverage at home, some don’t). I sometimes let my kids each pick one thing, but they have to look at the sugar content = must be less than 12 and hydrogenated oils = 0 (those are my biggest beefs. There are enough “good” items out there for them to choose and still be thrilled. of course the shopping cart sometimes holds gold fish, gatorade, etc. but i make that my choice = a controlled environment. also, my kids have learned not to assume they can just pick out junk food each visit – pointing out items they like or want to try is always welcome. Good luck everyone – it ain’t easy, but at least we’re all trying!
Personally, I believe that that it is shameful to not use as much of the bird as possible.
Waste not, want not.
Separated peanut butter is gross. It makes me gag to have to stir peanut butter. The poor kids in school always had to stir the peanut butter when we wanted a snack and I can’t help but associate oily peanut butter jars with dirt poor kids. Ew.
Who the f are you to judge?
Vita Coco leaves me feeling so refreshed and hydrated after a workout. I love all the flavors, but my two favorites are the natural and then the acai & pomegranate. Vita Coco is definitely has the most fresh tasting coconut water on the market, too.
why does anyone give this pathetic famewhore any press?
I agree with the premise of this blog and I’m on your side and all, but I really don’t care for this kind of thing. I think it’s spiteful. There are enough judgmental people out there in the world, please don’t encourage it.
How do you know she’s feeding the baby any of that stuff? Or herself, for that matter? Sometimes I want to have t-shirts printed up that say “I do have a husband you know, and yes he likes to eat crap.” I realize she’s a celebrity, but really it’s none of our business what she has in her shopping cart.
Shopping with kids can be horrible, or it can be a happy educational experience. The difference between the two has as much to do with where the kids are at, at that moment in time, as it does with a parent’s ability to engage in some kind of amazing zen parenting. Judge not, lest ye suffer a horrible drop down drag out tantrum in the organic food aisle, tomorrow! (It can happen to you, really.)
Fooducate taste tester? I’m totally in! Sign me up!!
Laughing my butt off here, this is the kind of cuisine that us Southerners get slammed for. Thanks, Texas!
@Tacomamama:
In general I work very hard not to jump to conclusions based on what I see in someone’s cart. But this person works very hard to put herself in the public eye. Part of the bargain of putting onesself in the public eye is that the public gets to opine.
Just because you have the right to opine on what’s in her grocery cart doesn’t make it a great idea, or newsworthy. So many other great food and nutrition related things to talk about, that don’t involve spite and gossip.
I noticed that on Subway’s ingredient list that the wheat bread has high fructose corn syrup while the white bread does not. What would be a better option when eating Subway? I’m always wanting to incorporate more whole grains into my diet, but if the wheat has high fructose corn syrup should I go for the white? Subway is confusing me on this one.
I came here from Mrs. Q’s Fed Up with school lunch.
And EW. THIS IS GROSS. WOW. I can’t believe this is being fed to kids at school…I’m shocked at how 1.) people can do this and 2.) how people can eat it. Bleeeh
The white bread is probably loaded with sugar too. Science has yet to show HFCS is more problematic than regular sugar. BOTH need to be severely limited in our daily diet. Sugars being equal, go for the whole wheat. Just don’t think of Subway as a daily solution. See if you can make your own sandwiches for lunch…
@Ken
Actually, they post both kcal/kJ per 100 g and kcal/kJ per serving (serving size and weight) on the products. Serving sizes are also a bit odd at times, too.
I really think this would be easier to do if the prices came down a bit. For some people, a 99 cent bag of chips is much more affordable than many of the fruits & veggies. Not everyone can really afford to buy one more fruit on their grocery budget. I purchased 3 organic tomatoes the other day for dinner, and it cost me just under $5. for THREE tomatoes! My other problem with the grocery store is a lot of the produce is simply bad… as in rotting on the shelf. I just had this conversation with my own local store – the corn, red peppers, and pineapples were rotten, shriveled and moldy. Which just goes to show that these good foods are NOT being purchased, they sit on the shelf or in the back warehouse to rot. It’s easy to tell people to buy and eat more fruits/veggies, but when their choices are limited by a budget and quality, it’s hard. I now stop at a local farm stand to buy all my produce at a reasonable price ($2 for 5 tomatoes), but not everyone has that option.
When we are told to eat more fruits and vegetables, it sounds rather boring. Most people do realize that they need to eat more F & V.
However, if they experienced a good fruit smoothie, they would have little need for sweets and ice cream. And, you can even throw some veggies into a smoothie. I recommend the Kitchen Sink Fruit Smoothie.
The F&V don’t have to be organic.
In the US there’s a correlation between poverty and obesity, so one might think that spending the same amount of money on fewer, healthier calories would be a win-win. I’ve seen some anecdotes that support this but, in fact, I don’t know and I doubt it’s that simple.
There’s also the availability factor. Poor neighborhoods tend to be food wastelands.
Finally, I’m strongly reminded of an incident at a conference. I went to the large food bar/small grocery/snack shop for a snack. For $1 I could get a Boston Creme Donut or a mealy Red Delicious apple.
Fooducate taste tester would be an answer to prayer!! A variety of foods! yeah!!
I would LOVE to become a Fooducate tester!!
Thank you for enriching my life and the lives of those around me with whom I share what you teach. I am a young Latina and although I am not a mother myself, I have lots of mommies around me, some of whom have no/limited access to the www and I am always inspired to share what I learn from you! Count me in as an option for a tester – I love to write!
unfortunately orange juice i mostly of no nutritional value, as most of the fiber and vitamins are in the pulp/skin, which does not exist in juice
“How an organization known for promoting responsible food choices can get away with serving a signature meal that exceeds our daily sodium allowance…exonerate their barbell of a burrito from attacking our bodies with obscene levels of cholesterol, saturated fat, and salt?”
Get the hell over it and don’t eat it. No one’s forcing anyone to eat a burrito. Or to even finish the burrito. This article is ridiculous. It’s called personal responsibility.
How sad. I love fresh fruits and veggies in season. I look forward to asparagus in the spring and raspberries and fresh corn on the cob in the summer. What’s not to love?
@Jessica
I TOTALLY agree!! I really wish fresh vegetables were cheaper. I often have to buy frozen of certain veggies because of my tight food budget. We recieve food assistance for right now due to an injury i had so i cannot work and it would be great to buy from local farmer’s markets because they are cheaper but sadly the market near us does not accept food assistance. I know some area markets do but it is sad that those are the cheaper places to buy yet many people woudl have to use their cash to go there. now, for people who do use cash obviously that is the smarter option but it would definitely be nicer to have cheaper fresh fruits and veggies available in stores.
@WilliamB
I would have to say availability is an issue for many too. Even in certain areas that have markets that carry fruits and veggies many of those poor area markets often have veggies and fruit that are not very fresh and look nasty. If those “fresh” items look nasty why would people bother buying them, especially at the high prices they often go for.
@Ken Leebow
not everyone loves smoothies. i love fruit and veggies but hate smoothies. It just feels as though I should chew when drinking them. That bothers me. BUT, that being said they are a great way for to help get picky kids to drink those items
I definitely agree with consuming foods you want ..healthy and foods deemed unhealthy full of fat instead of their fat free options! I just don’t eat huge amounts of food at one sitting/meal.. Instead spread your hunger for food evenly. I would rather put a more natural full fat product in my body than it’s artificial version! interested in seeing the results.. since I’m not a vegan, vegetarian, and I eat food and maintain my healthy small figure!
@allure nobell
This is incorrect. I am a Registered, Licensed Dietitian. The daily requirement of protein is based on weight of the person and the recommendation for a normal, healthy person is about 1g per kg body weight. so for a 160# person this would be about 72 grams. You cannot convert 72 grams protein (weight) from ounces of food(weight) unless you convert each individual food.
Most serving sizes of meat are 3-4 ounces for 1 SERVING. Not the whole day@
I especially like the “gain weight from only eating healthy food” bit. Also, in theAOL article it says he’s going to be doing this by eating low-calorie food, not high. I personally had “binge-eating disorder” in high school/early college and gained 50ish pounds by eating insane amounts of low-calorie food. I was working out constantly too, it was pretty sad.
I kind of feel this experiment may be more interesting if he spent the second month eating only food specifically marketed as “healthy” (powerbars, smoothies, protein shakes, granola… you know the drill), but I can see where he’s coming from. Iiiiinteresting.
I would like to posse a question. I will soon be having my gallbladder removed and have been told to maintain a low fat diet. What is the best way to do this so my body gets all the nutrients and fats it needs?
@Sally, it’s highly recommended you seek advice from a registered dietitian on this.
This picture is surely not that of the 40-year-old nutrition professor, is it? This man looks much older than 40!
it’s a picture of some other professor
I am hoping he will end up reporting how HORRIBLE he feels physically when consuming 1800 calories of processed foodlike substances.
How about before and after blood work like the Supersize Me guy did? I’ll bet his before and after cholesterol, triglycerides, insulin and blood sugar levels show just how unhealthy a one month Twinkie regimen is.
@GreenFoodGal
This is how you look at 40 when you eat nothing but Twinkies
There is a lot of talk about inner city food deserts, but when I lived in rural Alabama, there wasn’t a farmers market for 40 miles even though most people grew veggies. The produce selection in the stores was abysmal and what was available was coated in GMO corn wax (peppers, cucumbers, apples, citrus) or gassed with GMO corn derived ethylene (tomatoes, bananas, potatoes) or washed with corny citric acid (carrots, bagged salads, prewashed greens) with only four organic selections. I almost starved when I lived there and probably would have if I didn’t drive the 4-hr round trip to Whole Foods every month. Obviously everyone doesn’t have the financial means to make that trip and buy the food sold at Whole Foods. Since I could only go once a month, we spent a certain amount of the month without fresh produce, too.
Food additives create a vicious cycle and hurt even the consumers that don’t eat them. After all, if fresh, local (unadulterated) produce isn’t a big seller, the stores will no longer carry it. No one that eats pseudo-food altered with flavor enhancing chemicals and loaded with sodium will enjoy the subtle flavor of sautéd zucchini or the tart bite of an organic (unwaxed) apple. Since the majority of my neighbors ate additive-laden processed food for every meal, they ruined my chances of being able to purchase fresh produce at the only stores around. It used to be shameful to feed your kids fast food and junk food all the time, but now even affluent parents have no problem with it – just look at all the expensive SUVs in the drive-thru lines every day and night as proof.
This study is much more definitive than other studies since it was done with 500,000 people for over 10 years. With studies, size does matter. A study done with 20 people is only 20 times better than a study done with 1 person. But this is 500,000 times better than a study with one person.
*Abundance-”The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply”
*Reimbursements-”Compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent”
*Reimbursable-”Capable of being reimbursed for”
1.) Should schools be forced to only offer healthy options in school lunches? No, because the students should be able to make there food eating decisions.
2.) Should schools only have vending machines that carry healthy foods? Not in my opinion, because once again students should be able to make there own food eating decisions.
Isn’t chocolate milk better than no milk? I drank a carton of chocolate milk every day of school all my years as a student. I hated white milk. Still do. I am 52 and weigh 115 lbs. It didn’t hurt me at all and it provided the calcium I wouldn’t have otherwise had.
At age 21, I can’t understand why anyone would prefer white bread over hearty whole grain. It adds wholesome flavor, more satisfying mass, and stronger structure to any sandwich. I really like Arnold brand whole grain, and the traditional style loaves in the grocery store bakery are great for butter or Nutella. Though on the other hand, Nancy reminded me that I rather dislike whole grain pasta.
Diet soda also contains phosphoric acid, which inhibits calcium absorption. Not good if you are a female middle aged.
You can drink flavored seltzer water. Zero calories. Sodastrea is a great way to make large quantities of water at home for pennies a liter.
Tea is an excellent alternative to soda. Drink it straight, flavored – if you don’t need caffeine there are fruit blends to try. If you are trying to get off sugar – add some and slowly reduce. Over time you will see you need little or no sugar. thewhistlingkettle.com has some great teas.
There’s a genuine issue here, but the story’s “USDA recommended” language adds a misleading and completely unnecessary spin.
If you’ve paid any attention to US Nutritional Analysis labeling over the years, you know that new convenience foods with potentially embarassing analysis numbers, and generally JUST those products, choose unnaturally small “portion sizes” as the reference point for their analyses. This is almost a running joke. Some products, in typical _actual_ serving, contain more than (say) the USDA total daily sodium limit, one of the government nutrient recommendations that usually appear. But whatever the USDA studied long ago, it is clearly manufacturers who exploit and support this euphemistic practice. In decades of reading these labels I have never seen one suggest a USDA “recommendation” of the “serving size” used for the analysis — it is clearly just a reference point. Also in those decades, many typical _actual_ servings never changed — another misleading point in this story. I witnessed that people usually ate full hamburgers 40 years ago, and people have always consumed full packages of instant “ramen” noodles and noodle bowls, not the absurd half-package “portion size” that de-emphasizes the product’s huge sodium content.
What’s more, there is no issue if customers use their heads. Nutritional Analysis labeling gives “portion size” explicitly; if your own portions vary, you can easily scale the analysis numbers accordingly. Yes, the “portion size” labeling is obnoxious commercial euphemism (OCE), but if people are unwilling to read and use their heads a little, blaming USDA is a childish excuse even for what the USDA actually does influence.
@LittleMissGrok
I am not disagreeing with your statement, but if you make it you should provide some examples to give us a clue as to why you said it. THANKS!
12. Phosphoric acid was the foundation of the soft-drink industry, long before Coca-Cola’s popularity. For about 100 years, US soft drinks were commonly made to order for customers at neighborhood “soda fountains,” often inside pharmacies, using flavored syrups and carbonated water or (for “health nuts”) mineral waters, dispensed from equipment behind the counter. “Phosphates” were soft drinks with phosphoric acid to make them tangy. (I have late-1800s and early-1900s books with recipes for this purpose.) These common institutions vanished around the 1960s but I’m old enough to remember them, and to’ve ordered “cherry phosphates” (cherry syrup as for sundaes, with carbonated water and a dash of phosphoric acid for tartness). “Celery phosphate” is traditionally sold as a syrup for home use. I believe phosphoric acid was preferred as a tartness ingredient over common alternatives (citric or tartaric acid or “cream of tartar”) because it’s both stable in solution and a source of dietary phosphorous, a vital mineral.
13. Many US consumers now drink sweetened soft drinks daily (perhaps unaware that it’s a peculiar regional custom, absent from many industrialized countries). Vast unquestioned sweet-drink consumption is an important part of the huge US average sugar intake, well correlated with _major_ epidemics like obesity and diabetes.
Why is this context omitted from the “quick facts about phosphoric acid?” Why (other than to create anxieties and attract readers) do pundits trumpet peripheral points like the specific tartness agent, or specific sugar, in soft drinks, thus distracting from the central problem, the 140 pounds of sugar (all kinds) voluntarily consumed annually? What minor ingredient will be the NEXT irrelevant food-anxiety fad, clouding the picture further?
I think he is entirely right. He will lose weight by eating fewer calories then he expends. I think the real point is that it is nearly impossible to eat fewer calories then you expend when you are eating junk food. Junk food is full of fats, sugars and refined carbs. These are tremendously calorie dense. A simple twinkie has 150 calories. It only weighs 42 grams. It is tiny. A very large apple only has 116 calories and is almost 6 times larger, coming in at 224 grams. Which one is more likely to fill you up? I would feel like I was starving eating only junk food all day and this would end up with me bingeing.
I found your website while searching the internet for some help in decoding ingredients on a salad dressing label. I love your site- I check it frequently and have learned a lot. I have been trying to give my family healthier options than we have been choosing in the past and have been very successful!
I have a concern that I hope you can help me with. My 3 year old son loves canned beans. I choose the lowest sodium beans I can find, however, should I be concerned about the BPA in the cans? I hear a lot about BPA in plastic bottles and sippy cups but only a few mentions here and there about can liners.
Thank you for all the information you offer on your website. I appreciate everything I have learned (and that you are also a concerned parent!).
Shout out to Wbole Foods for once again taking leadership. Nothing is perfect. I am very grateful that the ANDI index is giving people a new paradigm to focus through that leads them away from counting calories. It’s a start. Calories keep the diet industry in place and provides no access to health. ANDI does. The best thing that could happen to the average OTC/pharma drug addicted TV informed person on the SAD diet is that they should overdose on kale for a while. Start people thinking “nutrient density” and we have made huge progress
Thanks for the chemistry lesson! I think all we need to remember is – the less a product is advertised or marketed the better it is for you.
@Leah – there is growing concern in the scientific community regarding BPA, including as a liner in cans. Try contacting the manufacturer and asking specifically about the products you purchase.
Does he need to go on this experiment or do we know what’s going to happen? I hate to say it but I have clients who are weight watchers/points alums and they come in saying “I lost weight but didn’t eat the right foods.” Do we really think weight loss is the only important outcome? I’d hate to be one of his students during the experiement. When I eat poorly I’m cranky and have “digestive” issues.