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Episode #4, May 28, 2009
Show Notes
News:
- “News Coverage Temporarily Reduces Trans-fat Buying”
- Source:
- Reuters News Service; Health News
- Link:
- Source:
Research
- “Number of Fast Food Restaurants in Neighborhood Associated with Stroke Risk”
- Source:
- American Heart Association Media Room
- Source:
Main Topic:
Pros and Cons of Producing Food in the Most Convenient Form
- Pros
- Food year round
- Contributes to lower prices
- Not as subject to droughts and pestilence
- Get food faster
- More time for other things instead of preparing food
- Available anytime you want to eat
- Cons
- Destroys some of the nutrients
- Removes some of the nutrients
- Creates toxicity
- Increased salt and artificial preservatives
- Food designed around profitability not health
- Food waste
- Available anytime you want to eat
- We are not considering good bacteria in this process of destroying bad bacteria