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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: 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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How Much of Our Diet is Plant-Based?

Veducated shared that 40% of the Standard American Diet (SAD) comes from animal products, 50% of our calories come from processed foods like pasta, sugar, salad oil, soft drinks, pretzels, chips, and cold cereals, and 9% comes from white potatoes … Continue reading

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What is Nutrient Dense Food?

As nutrients go up, calories go down – a term that I have heard more and more in the last year is called nutrient dense food. The movie, Veducated, asks the question: why should we die unnecessarily of cancer, stroke, … Continue reading

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