Constant Vigilance!

Folks,

Be on the lookout for food products that make wild claims of healthfulness only to continue to sell you cheap unhealthy wares. Examples would include:

1) Helping to stop breast cancer by buying a bucket of fried chicken. Ok, KFC's dirty pairing with Susan G Komen is so ridiculous it would be funny, except people fear cancer and want to believe that they are helping to improve the world for future generations. That is a noble cause. Pairing that noble cause by selling high fat, high hormone laden fried chicken is sickening. This concept is probably causing more sickness than it will ever cure. Some of the main concepts for AVOIDING cancer is to avoid high fat, highly processed, food cooked in hydrogenated oils. (Remember when Kentucky FRIED Chicken (P.S. they changed the name to KFC so you, America, would forget the FRIED part of the name.) got the WORST reviews for healthful options in all of the fast food restaurants--that's saying something.) So do not take part in this sickening money hungry grab by to (in my opinion) questionable corporations.

2) Pop Tarts --now with real fruit. I have seen this ad in several places and was shocked- even I thought "Hmm, maybe Kellogg's is trying to improve on that cardboard, sugar square they have been pawning off on unsuspecting parents and kids as "Food." To my dismay I read the fine print which states that the filling is "made with equal to 10 percent fruit." Let's suggest that the filling is 1/3rd of the pop-tart, then ten percent of that is 3% sooo.... way to try to work health into a product --NOT! Or should I say way to work a healthy marketing campaign into a processed flour, artificial chemical laden piece of junk. Thanks fopr looking out for us Kellogg.

3) Garden Variety Goldfish -- The Claim : "A serving of goldfish is equal to one third of a serving of vegetables!" Wow - Pepperidge Farm by adding a minuscule amount of cheap dehydrated vegetables you can pretend your high salt, faty, processed flour food snack is a healthy option. Sorry, but I'm not buying it. It's like having poison and adding 1/3 of a serving of antidote. Now you get to advertise-- hey everyone our product- now with antidote! Sort of belies the fact that the product is still poison, doesn't it?

Yours in health,

Dr. Brian