Welcome

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Welcome to the Epicurean Digest Blog – for the healthy epicurean in you. The Epi D blog features articles about food related health issues, interesting topics, titbits of information as well as tips and quips here and there. Articles are of a cautionary nature or highlight the health benefits of a particular food or ingredient.   It is [...]

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The Butter Thing Again

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butter and knife

Some topics just keep coming around and around again.  Like butter vs. margarine. Have you heard about the ‘butter is one molecule away from fat’ argument?  That impressed me at the time.  But even I wouldn’t make that my main argument because frankly, lots of things are ‘one molecule away [...] Continue Reading…

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Supermarket Secrets

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What is the real price you pay for convenience foods (and I don’t refer to monetary value)?  Is what you see on the shelves really as good as it appears to be and is the price really as good as it seems?  And do you believe that reading the labels is enough? Investigative journalist [...] Continue Reading…

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Viruses Used to Eat Bacteria in Food

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In 2006, the FDA decided that to get rid of one pest, they would use another ‘pest’ to pester the pest…literally, to eat it.  The main pest, listeriosis which is a highly dangerous bacteria is now controlled in processed meats and cold cuts by a spray of the little [...] Continue Reading…

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Trendy Healthy Hype

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I can’t help it.  Most trends put me off because of the seemingly overnight bombardment of the latest silver bullet with whatever it is appearing in everything.  The skeptic in me pulls away with arms crossed and takes a ‘prove it’ stance.  In fact, it can take me years [...] Continue Reading…

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US Professor Sentenced for Bogus Research

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From Alliance of Natural Health Sentence for influential anaesthesia professor after 12 years of bogus research Scott S Reuben, the influential Massachusetts anaesthesia professor, who pleaded guilty in February this year to health care fraud after it was discovered that he had been faking research for pharmaceutical companies for 12 years, [...] Continue Reading…

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Stunning Victory Over FDA

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From the Alliance for Natural Health website: This was a key federal case argued for ANH-USA and other plaintiffs by Jonathan Emord and the Emord law firm. It was a remarkable seventh victory for Emord over the FDA in the area of allowable health claims for food or supplements. Unless [...] Continue Reading…

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