Category Archives: Your Preference

Your Preference: Asking the Right Questions

An interesting concept is that if you take your child to be tested for allergies, have you ever thought about asking the doctor, “when you are testing my child to see if they are allergic to corn, is it the … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Listening to Our Teens

In All Jacked Up, teenagers share that the “Media tells us we are a powerful consumer because we have disposable income. Parents and teachers tell us junk food is bad, but that’s what they serve us at school and parents … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Right Food, Right Balance

The movie, All Jacked Up, brings up that our bodies are designed that when you eat the right things, the body is balanced to use what it needs in the right balances. However, when you feed it too much, it … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Letting Agribusiness Make Your Decisions

All Jacked Up talks about how agriculture has changed to agribusiness. I had never really thought about it, but they make some interesting points.  They claim that there is a small dose of antibiotics in each meal, which help the … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Sensitive to Slaughter?

This movie, All Jacked Up, brought up something that really alarmed me, and that I didn’t realize or know before. It referred to the book, Slaughterhouse, with its claim that when pigs are killed at one slaughterhouse (150,000 pigs are … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Investigating the Differences

The teenagers in the movie, All Jacked Up, goes on to say that fructose and high fructose is a sweetener that can put on weight and can be a precursor for diabetes, yet you don’t feel full from it. This … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Stop and Think

The teenagers in this movie, All Jacked Up, ask, “Why is ‘my generation’ sicker than your generation?” The movie also states that 2/3 of the American high school students have middle aged diseases, such as an increase in blood pressure, … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Prioritizing Our Health

All Jacked Up sums up the question for our kids, “How to prioritize our own health and how to prioritize health and nutrition.” The teenagers also remind their parents that they hear “tone” first and they want an environment where … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Soda or “Anti-Soda”?

Based on an article on cnn.com from 1998, Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest said, “Liquid candy, call it what you will, it is junk; it is devoid of nutrients except for calories.” … Continue reading

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Your Preference: Full of Sugar or Nutritionally Dense?

According to an article on cspinet.org “Soda pop is Americans’ single biggest source of refined sugars, providing the average person with one-third of that sugar.” Teen-age boys get about 15 teaspoons of sugar a day from soft drinks and the … Continue reading

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