"The study, conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at added sugar consumptionโsugars in your diet that are not naturally occurring, like those found in fruit and milk, but rather added into foods during preparation or processing. Researchers used data collected from a nationally representative sample of more than 800 kids between six and 23 months old who participated in the 2011 to 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Parents were asked to record every item their child ate or drank during a 24-hour period, and the researchers calculated a mean sugar intake based on these testimonies."
"The study found that toddlers 12 to 18 months consumed 5.5 teaspoons per day, and that toddlers 19 to 23 months consumed 7.1 teaspoons. This is close to, or more than, the amount of sugar recommended by AHA for adult women (six teaspoons) and men (nine teaspoons). Parents of more than 80% of kids aged six to 23 months reported their children consumed at least some added sugar on a given day."
"โThere is no validity [to this myth] at all,โ Ellen Steinberg, PhD, R.D., L.D., food safety specialist, told me. For starters, the chemical makeup of onions just doesnโt support bacteria growth, she explained. Their low pH (i.e. acidic nature) and low protein content mean they are not an ideal breeding ground for germs, viruses or other pathogens. In fact, the opposite is true: onions contain compounds that have antibacterial properties."
"At Schenectady County Community College, any student can visit up to three times a month and select three days' worth of food such as canned beans, tuna, spaghetti sauce and pasta -- for free.
"Any dumpster diver can tell you: Grocery stores throw away a lot of food. But food discarded off the shelf is just one way that grub gets trashed. There's other waste along a grocery store's supply chain ยโrejected crops at farms, for example ยโ that's often overlooked. So The Center for Biological Diversity and The "Ugly" Fruit and Veg Campaign recently asked the 10 largest U.S. supermarkets how they handle food waste, and gave each store's efforts a letter grade."
"Scores for each store appeared in the report, "Supermarkets Fail to Make the Grade in Reducing Food Waste," released Monday. Letter grades took three overarching categories into account: how much public information a store shared about food waste, what it was doing to prevent food waste, and where its discarded food went. No store got an A. Walmart ranked highest with a B. Kroger, Albertsons and Ahold Delhaize, the parent company that owns Food Lion and Stop & Shop, all got Cs. Costco, Publix, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and Target all got Ds, and the German-based discount grocer ALDI got an F."
"Organic farmers may use pesticides, so long as they choose from a list of approved options. The USDA organic program does not disallow all pesticides, just โsyntheticโ ones. (By the way, the term โpesticidesโ includes both bug sprays and weed killers.)"
"So what remains on our vegetables? The USDA periodically tests produce for pesticide residues; this is the Pesticide Data Program. (The EWG repurposes this data to create their Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists.) But the USDA does not test for the presence of organic-allowed pesticides. So the EWG is reporting the stuff on conventional crops without considering whatโs present on organic crops."
"So, will you lower your pesticide exposure by switching to organic? We donโt know, but the answer may very well be no. Even looking at the synthetic, non-organic pesticides in the USDAโs tests, conventional crops donโt always have the lowest amounts. Take strawberries, for example, the โdirtiestโ item on the 2018 list: 75 percent of organic strawberries, and 76 percent of conventional strawberries, had pesticide levels that were under 5 percent of the allowable levels. "