Healthy Food Chart

Flickr: Guacamole GoalieHot peppers, Pop Rocks and soda, puffer fish and wasabi–all foods that hurt! Or at least potentially do. But for some people, eating ANYTHING can bring about upper abdominal pain, fullness, burning, bloating, belching, nausea and more. It’s caused by functional dyspepsia, a chronic stomach condition, linked to gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcers and even cancer….

In the US, the number of children with food allergies is rising: around three million American children are affected, according to the first ever NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics) report on this subject. In 2007, one in twenty-six children had a food allergy, compared with one in thirty in 1997….

Over the last few years there has been a concerted effort to remove sugar-sweetened soda drinks from schools. Back in 2006 the American Beverage Association signed a deal that effectively removed some of the most sugary drinks from schools. One (presumably young) commenter wrote “taking drinks out of school to stop kids from getting fat is stupid. Just because you…

The credit crunch, the woes of the housing market, the crash of the stock market…. These are certainly exciting, yet hard times we’re living in. As families work harder to make ends meet and as others face the possibility of losing their jobs because of this economic downturn, it doesn’t help things to know that food prices are rising….