Organic Food Now. Think Green!

smashing green launched new Green Directory

OFN — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:35:04 PDT

The smashing Green Directory is a another online resource for locating genuine green business, products and services. We hope many of you will add your business to our directory so that it will become a bigger source for people that are looking for green services and products. It could be your Product they´re searching for. Why should you add your site to our green directory? For a green company (be it a Green builder / Architect / Solar-Energy business / plumbing or any other green trade) it is especially important to be visible to potential clients searching the net. In todays reality, when...

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Organic Recipe: Free You Mind With These 2 Great Options!

OFN — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:43:46 PDT

Good organic recipes is something that you will definitely need if you’re starting an eating-right-healthy-life campaign. Since organic food is the ultimate choice for eating right, a collection of delicious, mouth-watering recipes is a must to make healthy eating a sustainable effort. If you want to built a healthier, good looking and long lasting body, you need to eat organic foods on a regular basis. To make this effort enjoyable, you need to have a list of good organic recipes in hand, so you can keep making delicious meals each and every day. These are 2 great options to make it...

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Tips for Shopping for Organic Foods

OFN — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:05:19 PDT

You may have made up your mind that you would like to buy organic foods. They don’t have herbicides or pesticides in them so that is nice to know. The way in which they are grown is also a benefit to the environment so it is a choice that allows you to cut down the pollution that you contribute as well. Here are some tips that will make shopping for organic foods much easier for you. You need to buy the fresh fruits and vegetables in the days right before you will eat them. They don’t contain any types of preservatives so they won’t last as long. You don’t want to pay...

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Organic Gardening – Environment Friendly and Healthy Way to Garden

OFN — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:08:36 PDT

Organic gardening is a science of working in harmony with nature and easy to learn. A cost effective, healthy method of gardening for both you and the environment. Going green in your garden can be a fun and a learning experience with great rewards. Simply by stopping the use of chemicals to control pests, weeds and to feed your plants will allow nature to start working for you in your garden. Nature has it’s own ways to control weeds, pests and to supply nutrients to the soil for plants to feed from to thrive. The starting point for all this to take place is with the natural method of...

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What are the Requirements for Organic Foods?

OFN — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:21:22 PDT

There are many requirements that the USDA has in place when it comes to organic foods. Under these guidelines products have to be grown a certain way in order for them to get the right certification. It is illegal to label foods as organic in nature without that certification in place. The guidelines are quite strict and the cover many areas including how the food is grown, how it is processed, and all of the handling throughout those processes. This is all in place because the term organic can be interpreted many different ways. By clarifying them the way the food industry is held to certain...

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MSG is the New Nicotine: What the Food Industry Does Not Want You to Know

OFN — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:01:58 PDT

Monosodium glutamate, also known as MSG, is a common food additive. It`s toxic and physically addictive. Fast food companies and other food manufacturers use MSG as a “flavor enhancer,” so consumers will become “hooked” on their products and keep dishing out money for more. When people consume unhealthy foods containing MSG, they often gain weight and feel sluggish, and some also experience “MSG symptom complex.” The symptoms can include headaches, chest pain, heart palpitations, nausea, and other heath problems. Although MSG is normally associated with...

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What a “Muscle-Head” Bodybuilder Says About Organic Food

OFN — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:07:33 PDT

Last week I was talking about nutrition with one of my workout buddies and when I mentioned grass fed beef and “organic food” he asked, “Do you mean like what you get at Whole Foods Market?” I said, “Yes, exactly… that’s a natural food and organic supermarket.” He said, “Yeah well, that place costs so much, I call it Whole Paycheck!” I was rolling on the floor laughing, but the truth is, organic food really is expensive and so is grass fed beef and free range chicken, so it’s a valid question to ask, “Is it worth it?” After...

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Protect Yourself from a “Food” Ingredient That Causes Nerve Damage!

OFN — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:10:18 PDT

Food additives tricks your tongue into thinking that it is getting something nutritious when it is getting nothing at all except some very toxic substances. Following the Second World War food companies discovered monosodium glutamate (MSG), a food ingredient the Japanese had invented in 1908 to enhance food flavors. Unfortunately, MSG is extremely toxic, especially to your nervous system! The fast food industry could not exist without MSG and other artificial meat flavors to make their sauces and spice mixes. The sauces in processed foods are basically MSG, water, thickeners and some caramel...

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Criticisms about Organic Foods

OFN — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:39:27 PDT

Is organic food good or not? This article will states some of the criticisms about organic foods. While most people out there understand the value of organic foods there are plenty of issues that have brought criticism to that industry. You have plenty of people that find nothing wrong with the conventional methods that have been in place for so long. They feel that people aren’t suffering ill effects from that process so why make a big deal about it. While they do admit that pesticides and other chemicals can be harmful if in large quantities they are confident in the processing they...

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Against sulphur dioxide in food products

OFN — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:28:56 PDT

When fruits and vegetables are processed to food products such as wine and snacks, in most cases sulphur dioxide (SO2) has a finger in the pie. The main function of this additive is the prevention of enzymatic and non enzymatic browning in foods, especially fruit and vegetable products. In addition, sulphur dioxide has strong antimicrobial capacity and preserves against microbial spoilage. “The SO2SAY project will develop a strategy to replace the application of sulphur dioxide or its salts for almost all food products” explains coordinator Hauke Hilz. “An important aspect...

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