J. Douglas Bremner
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 The primary source of government information on eating healthy is its widely distributed food pyramid, which is constructed by the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA). More recently, the USDA has created a new food plan called MyPyramid, which is an improvement over earlier versions that were heavy on meat and dairy, and complicated to use. Because the pyramid plans are so widely known in this country, many consumers see the agency's primary function as developing a food plan for the nation. |
Bill Sardi
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 According to the u.s. department of agriculture, the average American consumes about 1 8 pounds of fresh tomatoes and 69 pounds of processed tomato products annually. Watermelon, pink grapefruit and other fruits also provide
Product
Lycopene Milligrams per 1 00 grams
Serving Size b
Lycopene (mg / serving)
Tomato Juice
9.3
240 mL (1 cup)
22.9
Tomato Ketchup
17
15 mL(l tbsp)
2.9
Spaghetti Sauce
16
125 g (1/2 cup)
20
Tomato Paste
29.3
30 g (2 tbsp)
8.8
Tomato Soup (Condensed)
10.9
245 g (1 cup prepared)
13.1
Tomato Sauce
15.9
60 g (1/4 cup)
9.6
Watermelon
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Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 The United States is the world's largest consumer of sweeteners, including sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, as well as one of the largest global sugar importers, according to the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA). Just look at how our intake of sweeteners has soared over the past two centuries:
In 1801, historians estimate, each person consumed about 8.4 pounds of sugar, which comes to less than one tablespoon or 2.2 teaspoons a day. ii In 1909, when the first official U.S. |
| Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA). Published every five years since 1980, the guidelines are intended to "provide authoritative advice for people two years and older about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases." But in this instance, good intentions collided with industry interests, according to nutrition insiders, who say that intense lobbying by food industry and advocacy groups—rather than solid science—had much to do with the creation of our nation's new dietary recommendations. |
Erich Grotewold
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 She also gratefully acknowledges the National Science Foundation (grants MCB 0131010 and 0445878) and the u.s. department of agriculture (grant 2001-03,371) for support of her laboratory's current work on flavonoid metabolism.
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Abrahams, S, Lee, E, Walker, A. R., Tanner, G. J., Larkin, P. J., and Ashton, A. R., 2003, The
Arabidopsis TDS4 gene encodes leucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX) and is essential for proanthocyanidin synthesis and vacuole development, Plant J35: 624-636. Achnine, L., Blancaflor, E. B., Rasmussen, S., and Dixon, R. A. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Half a century later, on the eve of the Second World War, the u.s. department of agriculture sent renowned soil expert Walter Lowdermilk to survey the effects of land use on erosion in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. Hitler's invasion of Poland prevented him from continuing on to central Europe and the Balkans, but like Marsh before him Lowdermilk had already seen enough of Europe and Asia to consider the Old World's soils a graveyard of empires. |
Jack Challem
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 Researchers at the u.s. department of agriculture and their counterparts from Pakistan tested the effects of cinnamon-containing capsules on 60 people with diabetes. The subjects' fasting blood-sugar levels ranged from 140 to 400 mg/dl at the beginning of the study. They were asked to take 1, 3, or 6 grams of cinnamon daily after meals, and others were asked to take the same number of capsules containing placebos for forty days. One gram of cinnamon is about one-quarter teaspoon of the ground herb.
Fasting blood-sugar levels decreased by 18 to 29 percent among people taking cinnamon. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Unfortunately, the government has contributed to the misinformation concerning vitamins and supplements. The u.s. department of agriculture (USDA), whose job it is to promote the interests of agriculture (i.e., producers of food) and not health, regulates foods and beverages. Vitamins and supplements are classified as foods, not drugs. Lobbyists for the vitamin and supplement industry have blocked efforts by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the federal agency responsible for health, to get involved. |
Bill Sardi
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| According to the u.s. department of agriculture, the iron- and copper-binding molecules called polyphenols in some foods (particularly grapes, berries, cherries, olives, cocoa, tea and citrus rind) account for most of the antioxidant capacity of fruits and vegetables. [J AOAC Int 83: 950-56, 2000] A plentiful supply of polyphenols (sometimes called bioflavonoids) may not be provided in the best plant food diet or supplement regimen. Interestingly, it was found that a major measure of oxidation was not reduced among vegetarians compared to non-vegetarians. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Recently, the u.s. department of agriculture put into place a set of national standards that must be met in order for a food to be labeled "organic." Those standards apply whether the food was grown in the United States or imported from other countries. It's a huge step in the right direction. Organic food is now defined as follows:
Organic food is produced by farmers who emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality for future generations. |
Ann N. Martin
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 At first, I assumed that the u.s. department of agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (USDA/APHIS) is involved. I found out that this agency only administers the Animal Welfare Act that deals with minimum standards of humane care and treatment of animals sold into the pet trade, transported commercially, exhibited to the public, and used in research. This agency does not have any input into ingredients or regulations as they pertain to commercial pet food.
Next, I contacted the U. S. |
| Pet food is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the states through their feed laws and the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), and the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA)."6
Wanting to be reassured of the USDA's involvement, I contacted the USDA and inquired what role this government department played in the regulation of commercial pet foods. Denise Spencer, DVM, replied: "The USDA does not regulate pet food manufactured in the U.S., the FDA has this regulatory authority."7 Dr. |
| The FDA had also initiated the testing brains of cattle who might be suspect for BSE. The u.s. department of agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services reported that from May 10, 1990 through December 31, 2001, the veterinary laboratories tested a total of 20,141 brains from cattle in the United States. This includes "neurologically ill cattle found on the farm. Neurologically ill cattle presented at veterinary diagnostic labs or hospitals. Rabies negative cattle. Cattle condemned at slaughter for neurological disease. Non-ambulatory (down/fallen stock.) |
| When Jeffery Nelson from Veg Source questioned the legitimacy of the old detection method, Linda Detwiler, who chairs the BSE Working Group at the u.s. department of agriculture, defended current U.S. testing, asserting "it is adequate to detect mad cow if it is in the U.S."24
The result of using the older and more cumbersome method for BSE testing is that fewer cattle are tested in both countries as compared to the numbers tested in European countries. The statistics for testing cattle going to slaughter are alarmingly low in the United States compared to other countries. |
Jack Challem
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| A few years ago, the u.s. department of agriculture established standards for the labeling of organic foods. As a result, certain terms have specific meanings:
• "100 percent organic" means all the ingredients are organic.
• "Organic" means that at least 95 percent of the ingredients are organic.
• "Made with organic ingredients" means at least 70 percent of the ingredients are organic.
Unfortunately, the term organic may sometimes imply a healthier product when it is not. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Four years later, the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA) estimated that annual topsoil loss from U.S. fields amounted to more than twice the quantity of earth moved to dig the Panama Canal. Three years aftet that, Agricultutal Experiment Station researchers estimated that half the tillable land in Wisconsin suffered from soil erosion that adversely affected economic activity.
At the start of the First World War, the USDAs annual yearbook lamented the economic waste from soil erosion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Overhaul national dietary guidelines to benefit consumers, not Big Business
As every honest nutritionist will readily admit, the dietary guidelines invented by the USDA (that's the u.s. department of agriculture) amount to little more than a national marketing campaign for grain processors, junk food companies, dairy farms and meat producers. It's no surprise, of course, since those are the exact same organizations that strong-armed the USDA into creating the "My Pyramid" nutritional guidelines in the first place. |
Michael Pollan
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 When you report on an FFQ that you ate a carrot, the tabulator consults a u.s. department of agriculture database to determine exactly how much calcium or beta-carotene that carrot contained. But because all carrots are not created equal, their nutrient content varying with everything from the variety planted and type of soil it was planted in to the agriculture system used (organic? conventional?) and the carrot's freshness, these tables suffer from their own inaccuracies.
I was beginning to realize just how much suspension of disbelief it takes to be a nutrition scientist. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 Organic Cosmetics: Since October 2002, according to the u.s. department of agriculture (USDA), national regulations have been on the books that specify exact standards for determining what precisely is meant when food is labeled "organic," whether it is grown in the United States or imported from other countries. As is stated on the USDA Web site, "Organic food is produced by farmers who emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality for future generations. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 According to figures from the u.s. department of agriculture for the period 1963 to 1992, the vitamin and mineral content of fruits and vegetables declined dramatically: for example, calcium declined by 30 percent, iron by 32 percent, and magnesium by 21 percent in selected crops.
America is a fast-food nation. If we aren't picking it up at a drive-through window, we're nuking it in a microwave. We cook fast, eat fast, live fast, and are on the fast track for dying due to diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Supplements are not a panacea for a nutritionally deficient diet. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| In 1994, 62 percent of all food samples tested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Data Program (PDP) had detectable levels of at least one pesticide."11
"PDP data from 1994-96 ... [stated 25] percent of the samples had detectable levels of carcinogenic pesticides, and 34 percent" possessed detectable levels of neurotoxic pesticides. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Who do you think runs the u.s. department of agriculture? It's the farming, beef and the dairy industries.
Take a look at every single decision the USDA, the FDA, and various government departments have made: they benefit big business. It's all about not just protecting business, but helping big business become more profitable.
The arrogance of modern man
You know what it tells me when humanity tries to take credit and ownership of things from nature? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 United States, and it's all perfectly legal and openly accepted by the Food and Drug Administration and u.s. department of agriculture.
In the U.S., there's also the issue of so-called "illegal immigrants" (which I believe to be a strange term, since in my opinion there's no such thing as an "illegal" human being). On one hand, U.S. consumers demand cheap produce that can only be grown and harvested with the help of illegal immigrant labor. |
Bill Sardi
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| ORAC, as defined by the u.s. department of agriculture, is ORAC per 1 gram (1,000 mg). Many companies assign an artificially and mis-leadingly high ORAC score to their products by fudging on these numbers. One serving of fruits and vegetables equals 350 ORAC units, so a multivitamin or antioxidant supplement equivalent to the National Cancer Institute's recommendation to eat more plant foods should deliver around 3,150-4,550 ORAC units.
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Misunderstandings about antioxidants and cancer
Antioxidants are cell protectors. They protect the DNA inside the cell from being damaged. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The u.s. department of agriculture has completely ignored these complaints for four years. However, now this controversy has reached such a state, with the mass media covering it and retail stores across the country starting to drop Horizon and Aurora Organic, that the USDA is finally making noises that they will clear up this situation and promulgate federal regulations that actually require the animals to be pastured. |
Bill Sardi
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| High antioxidant foods
To help sort out which foods have the most antioxidant power, the u.s. department of agriculture developed a measure of the combined antioxidant power of foods and supplements. It's called the Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity (ORAC). Throw all the plant foods you eat into a pile and how much " anti-rusting" or ORAC power do you get? The consumption of five servings of plant foods yields about 1,750 ORAC units, and nine servings yields about 3,150 ORAC units. Here is a comparison of the ORAC values of various plant foods. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 BOOSTS INSULIN ACTIVITY: A study conducted by researchers from the u.s. department of agriculture found that black, green, and oolong teas increased insulin activity by about fifteen-fold in tests using fat cells obtained from rats.
Tips on Using Tea
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• All varieties of Camellia sinensis come in either loose or tea bag forms.
• Out of all the forms of tea, instant tea has the least amount of catechins.
• Bottled teas start off with low levels of flavonoids, and tend to lose potency over time. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In July 2007, the u.s. department of agriculture tested raw milk from 861 farms in 21 states. According to their report, nearly a quarter of the samples contained illness-causing bacteria, including five percent with listeria, three percent with salmonella, and four percent with less dangerous types of E. coli. Regardless of the real figures of contamination, either type of milk comes with its own risks. Again, if you are not sure about milk's health benefits for you, apply the muscle test and your body may give you some good clues about it. |
| According to research conducted by the u.s. department of agriculture, cinnamon helps to control blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetics. Ground cinnamon helps stimulate the production of glucose-burning enzymes and boosts insulin's effectiveness. In one study, cinnamon made insulin 20 times more capable of breaking down blood sugars. To benefit type 2 diabetes you will need to eat about lA teaspoon of ground cinnamon per day. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 This is the basis for the dietary guidelines endorsed by the National Cancer Institute and the u.s. department of agriculture, which recommend at least five servings of fruit and vegetables daily. Study results vary widely for breast cancer with some studies showing no protective effect and other studies showing a strong protective effect with intakes over 200 mg per day. Many studies have shown that higher intakes of vitamin C are associated with decreased incidence of cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, stomach, colon, and lungs. |
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