There are times in our lives when we feel that there comes a point when we have to start looking after ourselves. We are no longer feeling young and care free with our bodies.
As times and lifestyles move into the 21st century there is more emphasis on healthy green living, caring for the environment, eating organic foods, reducing our carbon footprint and recycling our waste are subjects we should take more time in studying.
All this makes perfect sense when you look at global warming, makes you wonder why did we not recycle our waste years ago? Eating organic is better for us though it sometimes cost a little bit more. You are what you eat? So they say, what your body absorbs becomes a part of you! So we naturally watch our diet and body intake.
What if there was another way we had to watch our body intake to be sure that we are still being health conscious and aware of what we are putting in our bodies? Here is a thought!
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All throughout the history of mankind, handmade soap are among the most essential body cleaning items. Ranging from royalty to the lower social classes, people used natural soaps to keep their body well-cleaned at all times, with specific herbs and plants used as well to cure skin ailments. Over time, various cultures have developed their own methods of making soap bars, liquids and gels from natural ingredients. With the geographical barriers knock downed in the course of centuries, many introductions have been made into soap making, to include use of milk from animals to produce cow and goat milk soap products.
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Anyone who followed the fracas over the food industry’s now abandoned “Smart Choices” label — the “healthy food” label that somehow allowed products like Froot Loops to qualify — should have realized that Big Food can’t resist the temptation to stretch the truth when it comes to front-of-package labeling. But a new study released today by the California-based Prevention Institute should represent the final nail in the coffin of the corpse that is food industry self-regulation.
The “Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children’s Food” [PDF] study examined over 50 products that food companies advertise as their healthiest for children — “Smart Choices” was but one front-of-package label of many others still in use. In the spirit of fairness, the study authors didn’t go looking for crap food: they selected products from an industry-created list that was part of its own “Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative,” which selects products the industry has itself determined to meet good nutritional standards. From that list, the study authors then selected products with some type of “healthier for you” front-of-package labels and analyzed them using nutritional standards based on the National Academy of Science’s 2005 “Dietary Guidelines for Americans.”
The researchers concluded that in fact, 84 percent of those products did not meet these basic nutritional standards.
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