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September 19, 2008

Don't Be Fooled by the Corn Producers Association's New Ad Campaign

I couldn't believe my eyes and ears the other night as I was monitoring coverage of Hurricane Ike on CNN. The scene: young couple in the park on a blanket under a big tree--the quintessential idyllic picnic setting. She offers him a Popsicle, which he initially refuses because "It's filled with corn syrup sweeteners." She smiles lovingly at his silly ideas and says "But why is that bad? Corn is natural and corn syrup is no different that sugar--it's fine in reasonable amounts." After which he sees the error of his foolishly misinformed ways and accepts the yummy treat. A voice-over says "know the facts."

Good idea. What it doesn't say is that often times high fructose corn syrup is the dominant ingredient in soft drinks and snack food. I don't think anyone would consider eating 16 teaspoons of sugar at a sitting, while they think nothing of downing several sodas a day, each one with the corn syrup equivalent of 16 teaspoons of sugar. But the FACT is that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is much worse than sugar in the way it interacts with our body chemistry.

Our bodies function through a series of chemical interactions that act as traffic signals and everything we ingest has an effect. When operating properly, our systems generate one chemical to signal our brain that we are hungry--ghrelin, and another to signal that we are full --leptin. HFCS plays havoc with these two important message systems. First, it inhibits the secretion of leptin, so your brain never gets a full message. To make matters worse, it never shuts off ghrelin, so even with a full tummy, your brain keeps getting a hungry message.

Knowing the facts is an excellent idea.

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September 02, 2008

Gigi's throws a party for the Blue Plate Special Cafe's event Chairs, Committee and Sponsors

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August 17, 2008

Join us on August 26th to kick-off the Blue Plate Special Cafe Festivities

Join in the party as we kick-off festivites for Blue Plate Special Cafe

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August 03, 2008

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The MacGregor and Rodriguez Elementary Summer Camps have Kids Cooking and Gardening!

Not only did these fourth and fifth grade groups continue to hone their cooking and gardening skills, over the course of four weeks, they each focused on a special project.

The Food Marketing Group at MacGregor researched, developed, tested, created, packaged and marketed their own healthy food product. Over the course of the program the children learned all about how food is marketed to them. Then they turned the tables to apply their newly acquired skills to the development of a healthy packaged food using produce from their 1/4 acre Recipe Garden. What was the final product? Rainbow Ribbons, brightly colored handmade fettuccini noodles created by adding beets, spinach and basil, and other garden fresh goodies to their basic homemade pasta recipe.

The Jr. Master Gardener Group at MacGregor worked to get their full accreditation

and completed all of the projects necessary to receive the Golden Ray recognition in garden nutrition. They also operated a Farmers Market, harvested food for snacks and "sold" produce to the Marketing Class to use in their pasta.

The class at Rodriguez combined time in the gardens and kitchen to study the traditions of a Three Sisters Garden and produce a Native American Harvest Festival that celebrated the culture of food.