September 28, 2004

Nutrition Action Healthletter

I subscribe to the Nutrition Action Healthletter, which is by far the best publication on nutrition that I know of. It is small, but it is filled with information and they are right on about everything they say. It is non-biased and also has the courage to tell it like it is:

'With luscious fruit, creamy yogurt flavor and moist golden cake, they're a good source of calcium, like cereal bars. Plus, they have a wholesome taste that can only come from Newtons.' Can you spot the trick words?
'Wholesome taste' means nothing. 'Creamy yogurt flavor' means little or no yogurt. (Each bar has more baking soda than yogurt. What looks like yogurt is largely sugars and partially hydrogenated oil.) And the 'luscious fruit' is mostly a mixture of sugars, strawberries, and dried apples. A single strawberry supplies 10 percent of a day's vitamin C. A Newton Bar has no C. And Nabisco apparently has no shame when it pretends that Strawberry & Yogurt Newton Bars are equal to a cup of yogurt with fresh strawberries.
Nutrition Action Healthletter, September 2004 p.8
I have also recently discovered Rooibus tea, which supposedly has all of the health benefits of green tea without the caffeine. (But I would miss how the caffeine in green tea makes my head spin and my brain zone out at work).

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://WWW.UGLYCHART.COM/cgi-bin/MT/mt-tb.cgi/411

Comments


Post a comment




Remember Me?




(you may use HTML tags for style)