Potato school lunches

 

When a physician sees spikes like this all kinds of red flags pop up and he must address them for the health of his patients. The blood glucose-insulin spikes followed by the sudden fall in blood glucose and insulin levels create a dangerous roller coaster inside the body of any child or adult who eats potatoes frequently. Dr. Walter Willetts of Harvard School of Public Health wrote about this event in 2005 in his book Eat, Drink and Be Healthy. "This blood sugar roller coaster--- and the insulin one that shadows it-- triggers the early return of hunger pangs." The pancreas goes into full swing and secretes insulin to transport that sugar into all cells of the body and into storage units for later use. The pancreas works hard. It is an entire organ that is devoted to the delivery of digestive juices flowing into ducts and insulin into the bloodstream. "When a child eats a white potato," one doctor writes, "it's like there is a glucose flash flood in the blood stream."

If Senators Collins of Maine and Udall of Colorado had consulted with the medical establishment they would been told how dangerous the potato really is when eaten frequently. But, it is clear politicians don't have to seek the whole truth and nothing but the truth. As Frederick Douglass, the famous writer and activist of the nineteenth century said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." The food companies and agriculture companies who make contributions to politicians eventually morph those contributions into demands. Power starts to concede at this point. It always has and it always will. The system has to be changed for our children's sake. Call your political representatives and senators and tell them about our potato video. We want to talk to them.

Dr. Willett's reply to Congress's lack of vision

"Unfortunately, Congress embedded their changes to the school lunch plan in a broad spending bill that President Obama could not veto. This is a short term victory for potato growers and narrow parts of the food industry, but the losers are our children who will pay in shortened lives and suffering. In the debate about foods in schools, Senator Collins from potato-growing Maine argued that our country could not afford the cost of approximately one billion dollars a year to feed children healthy vegetables instead high-starch foods. This is amazingly short-sighted, because the costs of the obesity epidemic already raging in our children's generation will be many hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming decades. In reality, we can't afford a society burdened with disability at what should be productive ages and ever escalating medical costs."

Dr. Walter Willett's full response

Senator Collins speaks to the Rotary Club in Bangor, Maine on January 3, 2012

Still clueless!

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It takes only 26 calories to lift an SUV

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Michael Bauer of Between Meals column in the San Francisco Chronicle writes about energy in food in 2007.

Back in 2007 we sent an article about the energy in food to the Between Meals columnist Michael Bauer at the San Francisco Chronicle. He found it so interesting and surprising he wrote about our efforts to increase the awareness of calories in food. Some readers understood it, some did not.

Now, in 2011 it appears our legislative bodies, our schools, our restaurants, our grocery stores are beginning to understand the process that creates energy from burning matter like food. The ninety billion dollar a year medical tab for our obesity problem in this country is bound to lower significantly if we only stick with it and make sure our children eat more fresh veggies and fruit and get plenty of exercise at school and at home.

We have created an image that will help you and your child focus on healthy living. Take a look at our Do you hear the call poster. Hang it up in the kitchen. Talk to your children about this image. This image will make it a lot easier to put some of these fresh veggies and fruits onto your plate each and every day. Healthy Choices

He really is talking about senators, representatives having so little clue about science and its importance in our lives!

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StarChild Science's efforts to enhance opportunities for teachers and parents to take Bunyan bites out of the current science discoveries and adventures and make them available to children is a task much needed before intelligent solutions to our current problems are reached. We wish Fool Me Twice was fiction, but unfortunately it is what it is. Join us at working on the troubling trend to devalue science in America. Otto makes a huge investment in you and I acting on it.

The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods

The Chinese RNA study threatens to blast a major hole in Monsanto's claim. It means that DNA can code for microRNA, which can, in fact, be hazardous.

Sporadic low-carb diets may help lower weight, insulin resistance

One was a very calorie-restricted (650 calories) low-carb diet for two days a week... . This was a surprise. Even beat the Mediterranean diet!

How Small Community Parks May Make Cities Safer, More Healthy

A research team has found that distressed neighborhoods where vacant lots have been converted into small parks and community green spaces are associated with...

Growing Meat in the Lab:

Look mom no blood! At the opresent time the lab meat looks like a chunk of scallop. "For every 15 grams of edible meat, you need to feed the animals on around 100 grams of vegetable protein, an increasingly unsustainable equation," says Stellin Welin a bioethicist of Linkoping University in Sweden.

 

What's Really in That Luscious Chocolate Aroma?

What does this mean?

Designer chocolates from this? Inidividually, the beans smell like...potato chips, cooked meat, peaches, raw beef fat, cooked cabbage, human sweat, earth, cucumber, honey and an improbable palate of other distinctly un-cocoa-like aromas.

The Beauty of Ratios: A New and Simple Guide to Healthful Eating

Do we have a schizophrenic approach to carbohydrates, red meats and omega 3 and 6 fatty acids? And what about the way we comsume salt or sodium? Is that way out of whack with postassium consumption? Do we misunderstand the ratio default built in to healthy ating? What does it mean when we say nature rarely deals in absolutes? Dr. Michael Fenster's book Eating Well, Living Better is coming out early next year. Read his ideas about his Grassroots Gourmet Philosophy on his web site.

 

Omega-3 Reduces Anxiety and Inflammation in Healthy Students, Study Suggests

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Psychological stress and our ability to fight off pathogens are linked? How does fish oil help under much stress? How does it reduce inflammation? Should I feed my children more fish?

Administration Prescribes Prevention For Nation's Health

"Empowering people to make healthy choices."

10 Food Pyramids From Around The World

Spain, Australia and Britain have a food plate? No fair! What about China and Timbuktu?

 

What is a calorie?

How do we determine what a calorie in food really is? Can we make an equivalence that makes sense?

Macho Meals: Man With a Pan by John Donohue

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"...this is the first book to celebrate those good eggs who toil behind the stove, trying to nourish and please." Can you get your father into the kitchen? Just once?

 

Eating Green Veggies Improves Immune Defenses

Grandma was right!

More Evidence That Spicing Up Broccoli Boosts Its Cancer-Fighting Power

Remember the article about eating broccoli sprouts along with broccoli and how the two make for a more effective cancer destroying mixture? Well, here's another interesting article for you.

Free Radicals Crucial to Suppressing Appetite

Could this help explain why it has been difficult to develop successful therapeutic strategies for obesity without major side effects?

 

Lab Meat? From a "Carnary" ?

What is happening to the source of meat?

"Animals require between 3 and 8 pounds of nutrient to make 1 pound of meat. It's fairly inefficient. Animals consume food and produce waste. Cultured meat doesn't have a digestive system."

Adding Food and Subtracting Calories

To lose weight, eat less, right?

 

Menu labeling: Will calorie counts matter to diners?

But will Americans take control of their own health? “If anyone is under the illusion that giving people nutritional information is going to reduce obesity, they’re crazy.”

Out of their kitchens and into school cafeterias..

Does your doctor have a HEALTHY CHOICES poster in his clinic?

A good healthy eating starting point for your family is this image of your own healthy living neighborhood. Our 18x24 inch poster helps every child focus on healthy eating. Doctors and teachers are telling us they like it because it helps the family focus on healthy eating from the get go! Dr. Roxanne Sukol, internist at Cleveland Clinic writes: "It really is colorful and user- friendly. The poster is beautiful and well designed. The message is important: if people grow their own food, they will ultimately improve their own health." Her poster is framed in the harvest pumpkin color. Dr. Laura Lawson author of City Bountiful A Century of Community Gardening in America says of our poster, "...this has nutritional and emotional benefits." Ask your favorite framer to frame your HEALTHY CHOICES poster in a color you like.

 

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Dr. Steven Palumbi Lab, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California

 

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Better to Be Fat and Fit Than Skinny and Unfit

This article will surprise you!

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How many SUVs can you lift after eating this Hawaiian Burger that has 1450 calories?

Fundamental: It takes 26 calories to lift an SUV.

1450 calories divided by 26 = ? SUVs

25 SUVs?

40 SUVs?

50 SUVs?

Moral: One can only hope!

 

 

What is a calorie?

Twenty-Six Calories Can Lift an SUV

If this is so, no wonder many children in this age of high tech are suffering from obesity. They aren't 'walking the walk', literally!

This is a furnace, just like your body. It burns food and releases energy from the chemical bonds in that food. When you eat, you break molecules apart and release their energy to do work for you. You use this energy to walk around, run, jump, sleep, digest, play — just get through each day. In order to appreciate how much energy is in food, some scientists have decided to link the idea of how many calories it takes to lift an SUV off the ground with the number of calories in a food. This is called the concept of equivalence. This equivalence goes like this: There are 26 calories in one chocolate kiss. This is equivalent to the amount of energy it takes to lift 1 SUV off the ground.

As you read the number of calories in each of McDonald's foods, or any food, you can get an idea of the vast amount of energy in food by making an equivalence between the number of calories in the food and the number of SUVs you can lift with that amount of calories. For example, once you know that 26 calories is needed to lift 1 SUV above the ground, then you can figure out how many SUVs you can lift by eating 1 260 calorie hamburger from McDonald's. 260/26 = 10 SUVs can be lifted off the ground! Or how many SUVs you can lift after you scarf down one Hawaiian Burger from Islands Restaurant. Sounds ridiculous but it is good science!

As StarChild Science teaches, 'There is nothing between us and nature but energy and information'. Unfortunately, the amount of energy in food is huge. That is why it is important for us to exercise often to get rid of the extra energy in the food that we have eaten that we don't use. If we don't run it off, then we store it as fat. And that is where obesity comes from.

Throughout this site you will often see the expression 'energy conservation'. It is an expression that is currently everywhere in the news, connected to many different arenas. We read it in articles about ethanol production, alternative fuel research, heating costs, food science, dieting, obesity, agriculture, fashion, airline industry, housing industry, forestry, ocean health, just to name a few.

The graphic above showing the temperature of water inside the box rising as heat is released from food should be on all science sites and in all classrooms, no matter what grade level. This is a fundamental depiction of the conservation of energy. Energy in nature is conserved meaning it is kept in some form or other, work or heat. Energy does not just vanish in nature like your money in your bank account can do. It is kept in some form at all times, in all circumstances. Most importantly, this conservation law is what keeps us living systems alive.

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