Comments on: Ridiculous Health Claims: Mark’s Daily Apple Goes to the Grocery Store

By: eatricious - What is “Nutritionism”?

eatricious - What is “Nutritionism”? — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:41:07 +0000

[...] to buy food and you see the nutrition label, nutrient content claims (ex.: “high in fiber”) or health claims (ex.: “may prevent cancer”) on the packaging, it is the result of nutritionism, reducing foods [...]

By: Candace

Candace — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:18:58 +0000

I love your sense of humor

This article is a couple years old now but did you know they label Full Throttle “energy drinks” as being “A Natural Health Product”? (I’m guessing you did). As if there were a Full Throttle berry that they’d juiced it from, bah

Bottled juice is pretty useless anyway, but really… what an insult.

By: Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » A Food Revolution Manifesto

Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » A Food Revolution Manifesto — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:46:21 +0000

[...] books he has inspired us to try our hand at creating our very own savory seed sauerkraut, and to (further) challenge the practices and tactics of multinational food [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:03:51 +0000

Sonagi, couldn’t agree more. Most of the “food” we eat is not really food. Well, I don’t eat it, but you know what I mean…

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:02:26 +0000

Those liquid sugar drinks are especially pernicious – empty calories on top of a meal or a snack, and they really rot your teeth. My eight-year-old nephew, who gets semi-annual teeth cleanings, has seven cavities, the same number I have, and I am decades older than he is and saw a dentist for the first time when I was seventeen.

Baked Lays are disgusting. They’re not even real potato chips but the potato chip equivalent of chicken nuggets – potato flour and other mysterious ingredients mixed together and shaped to look like a chip. Besides, refined carbs baked or fried at high temperatures form cancer-causing acrylamides. I satisfy my occasional craving for salt and vinegar chips by lightly seasoning roasted new potatoes.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:38:06 +0000

Reminds me of the Cowbell post we did a while back: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/more-cowbell/

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:34:26 +0000

Yeah, but…

Each on their own, I admit, isn’t so good tasting. But when you get a little bite of each (a little corn dog, chips, protein bar, and a sip of surfer juice) all in your mouth at once the mixture is really good… AT KILLING YOU!!!! HEHE…

By: Kery

Kery — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:28:36 +0000

That was hilarious. In a kind of twisted way.

I still can’t decide if I’m not normal, or if some people should revise their skills at designing packaging, but just looking at the pictures, those foods don’t even look yummy to me… ‘barfilistic’, perhaps?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:54:23 +0000

You should have seen my face as I was reading this post during my lunch and coincidentally eating a corn dog, baked Lays, and a ProMax bar while washing it down with a Capri Sun. What are the chances?

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:13:13 +0000

Unfortunately, some parents think the personal decision should be extended to their kids. And some people make very bad personal decisions.We end with a country of obese people with serious medical problems flooding an already broken health care system and driving medical insurance costs through the roof. Perfect. Twinkie, anyone?