Do you buy chicken broth in tetrapaks or cans labeled “No MSG” from the store thinking this is a safe and healthy option for homemade soups you make at home?

Maybe you even go to the trouble and expense of buying chicken broth from the healthfood store that is labeled free range and organic believing this is a quality choice for your family.

Let’s dig into the label of these supposedly “no MSG”, “100% Natural” products and see what the real story is.

Are you ready for another Food Label Smackdown?

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This Child is NOT Sufficiently Protected from this X-Ray Machine!

I don’t get dental x-rays very often, certainly not every six months like most dentists seem to recommend even for children.  I don’t buy the argument that “you get more radiation walking to your car than what you get from this digital x-ray machine.”

Doesn’t that sound like the hollow argument the TSA uses that you will get more radiation from the airplane flight itself than from the naked body scanners?

Oh, is that why there is a cancer cluster among TSA agents in Boston and why Europe has outright banned them then?

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Post tags: dental xray dangers, dental xrays, thyroid guard, x ray radiation, xray, xrays

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Welcome to Monday Mania, a health and wellness carnival where Real Foodies who blog come together to link up their popular posts.

These posts might be Real Food recipes, Book Reviews, Natural Remedies, or Green Home Tips. They might even be a blogger’s take on a media health report, a videoblog, podcast, or an exciting giveaway!

In short, these Awesome Posts are a complete free for all of incredible Real Foodie Wisdom! So, roll up your sleeves, link up and show us your stuff! Can’t wait to see what your Real Foodie brains have turned out recently!

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Hands down, my favorite thing about my children’s school besides a quality learning environment is their organic horticulture class.

Not only do they learn about all aspects of organic gardening from prepping the soil to planting and composting, but they also help care for foraging goats and free ranging chickens.

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When most people think about the rise of pasteurized milk in America, they tend to think of people getting sick and dying from raw milk in such numbers that a rapid transition to the “safety” of processed milk occurred out of the sheer necessity of preserving the public health.

This is simply not so.

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A reader emailed me a few days ago asking for a commercial formula brand recommendation since she was going back to work soon and would no longer breastfeed.

My email reply suggested that she make a nourishing, wholesome homemade baby formula.  While not as good as breastmilk from a well nourished mother, it is the next best alternative and certainly better than any commercial formulas on the market.

This reader emailed back saying that she didn’t have time to make the homemade formula and pressed again for a commercial formula recommendation.

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Ah, vanilla pudding ….  Truly, one of the ultimate comfort foods!

Kids especially love pudding and a homemade pudding cup makes a wonderful healthy addition to the lunchbox if you make it yourself with wholesome ingredients.

Whatever you do, skip those pudding boxes from the store. They are nothing but white sugar, GMO corn starch, artificial colors and flavors plus preservatives.

Even if boxed pudding is made with good quality whole milk, the end result is not be something that would be of overall benefit.  Kind of like raw grassfed milk served with a bowl of Fruit Loops, wouldn’t you agree?  What’s the point in that?

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This just in from the Food Police Chronicles ….

A state employee required a preschooler at West Hoke Elementary in Raeford, North Carolina on January 30, 2012 to eat chicken nuggets during lunch because her lunch brought from home was not nutritious enough.

The child’s lunch contained a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips, and apple juice.

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Not sure if this will surprise you or not. I was actually rather taken aback.

Almost HALF of Americans are on some sort of prescription drug.

Right now. This very minute!

This includes children by the way, it’s not just adults.

Americans are truly a drugged up nation yet thorough examination of the situation reveals that most prescription drugs only work for 30% of the people for which they are originally intended!

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Welcome to Monday Mania, a health and wellness carnival where Real Foodies who blog come together to link up their popular posts.

These posts might be Real Food recipes, Book Reviews, Natural Remedies, or Green Home Tips. They might even be a blogger’s take on a media health report, a videoblog, podcast, or an exciting giveaway!

In short, these Awesome Posts are a complete free for all of incredible Real Foodie Wisdom! So, roll up your sleeves, link up and show us your stuff! Can’t wait to see what your Real Foodie brains have turned out recently!

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