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Entries Tagged as 'Food + Health.'

Slow Cow: The Antihero of Red Bull.

August 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Society has reached a point where energy drinks have become a big seller in order keep up with the array of information and the speed at which we live. I’ve never understood it myself – the stuff tastes like chemicals that the manufacturers attempted to cover up the bad flavour with faux sugars. In fact, [...]

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Tags: Food + Health.

Halloween Candy is Bittersweet.

October 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

You have two choices this Halloween:

Support chocolate manufacturers who ONE: use genetically modified beet sugar, who TWO: puts out a food product that contains pesticides and THREE: who supports the use Child Slave labour.

Reject these companies by not purchasing their product and send them an email asking them to stop!

Hershey and M&M/Mars are [...]

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Tags: Food + Health. · Science + Technology. · Wake Up Call.

Timmy’s Secret.

October 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

My sister introduced me to mint chocolate chip ice cream almost 14 years ago. Ever since then, it has been an ongoing obsession of mine to find the mint chocolate chip flavour in everything. Thus far I have found mint chocolate in:

Herbal tea from Shabolix Farms in Sechelt, BC
Ontario Girl Guide Cookies
In lip gloss by [...]

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Tags: Food + Health.

Enviro-Trend: SIGG Water Bottles.

May 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

It’s not what you drink, it’s what you drink it in.
-SIGG slogan

It starts in Frauenfeld, Switzerland with a hockey puck-sized chunk of recycled aluminum…
One swift 650-tonne thrust by the extruding press converts it to a hollow cylinder. Twenty-six manufacturing steps later the neck of the bottle is formed and the thread ring is inserted. A [...]

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Tags: Design + Lifestyle. · Food + Health. · Uncategorized

The Dog Likes It Raw: The Best Sources

April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A continuation from The Dog Likes It Raw: The Discovery and The Transition.
Upon my discovery of the raw diet and during the transition I started the never-ending search on the good and the bad. I am one of those people who would go back to school if I won the lottery and the need for [...]

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Tags: Canis Lupus. · Food + Health.