Anyone catch the CBC documentary on the Heart and Stroke Foundation last night? Very interesting. Apparenlty they do not really check that the food items that wear their logo. Companies PAY the Heart and Stroke Foundation to have their logos on their packaging and in doing so, tries to trick consumers into buying their products.
Unbelievable. I thought the H&S had better standards than that. Bottom line, read the labels well and don't trust what you see.
[H3]Hyping Health[/H3] [H2]Does the health check logo hype health or sell food?[/H2]
You've seen the Health Check logo. It's the friendly red checkmark that appears on nearly 1,500 packaged food products in this country, representing the approval of the Heart and Stroke Foundation. If a product bears the logo, that means Heart and Stroke has evaluated it and concluded it complies with their criteria, which is based on the recommendations of Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating.
So. Does the logo mean it's the healthiest choice? The answer is a little complicated. As Wendy Mesley reports, it turns out that some of Heart and Stroke's Health Check products don't get top marks in other food-rating systems.
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Yep! Saw that and already figured that out. Plus, I don't buy products based on the health check anyways.
It's all a bunch of marketing BS scheme. Same applies to "organic" food and this era of eating healthy and all these changes of what is bad and good...
*sigh* I like the food group chart that I learned when I was in teeny tiny school. That is what I stick by.
Very true, purelife. I'm just amazed at the amount of scams out there targeted at consumers. But the H&S? I mean, that's a logo people trust! To be betrayed by a company like that is horrible. Makes me wonder who you can really trust these days.
Trust no one.
Well, the Jolly Green Giant of the vegetable land.
I heard this too.
What about the Canadian Dental Association stamp on toothpastes? Is that all BS too? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/4.gif)
I didnt know this.. interesting. I should start my own label.
Is your logo gonna have a pic of your goats in pretty colors?
purelife wrote:
Is your logo gonna have a pic of your goats in pretty colors? [/DIV]
Billiant idea PSL! The goat is a PROUD and NOBLE creature! Everyone that sees a goat instinctively knows to trust them right? But of course! Why.. I could probably sell McDonalds as healthy with a seal of goat approval on them, if people see a goat they know they can trust it!
<off to plot muttering to self>
same with organics, everything is "organic" now because its en vouge.
Plus its common sense here guys, if a twinkie has a heart symbol, you know its a joke. Its like light cigarettes, its still cigarettes, nothing "lite" about them. We're all (society) seem to be looking for a pill or tasty fatting food that won't make us fat. lol
Goats milk is very healthy.
Sportsdude wrote:
same with organics, everything is "organic" now because its en vouge.
This is so true. Its been complained about many times.. companies put organic on packing.. but what constitutes organic and chemically treated natural? There is no government standard.. so you could really put organic on even non organic food.
Plus its common sense here guys, if a twinkie has a heart symbol, you know its a joke. Its like light cigarettes, its still cigarettes, nothing "lite" about them. We're all (society) seem to be looking for a pill or tasty fatting food that won't make us fat. lol
True as well with teh magic pill. Cigs are another example the gubbernment has cracked down on, if you look at all our cigs being sold now.. there is no more 'light', 'ultralight', 'medium', etc. They are just called different 'tastes' now.
I'm gonna come out with organic water and stamp the goat seal. Then, I'm gonna sell organic air on ebay.
purelife wrote:
I'm gonna come out with organic water and stamp the goat seal. Then, I'm gonna sell organic air on ebay.[/DIV]
Okay! Ill put the sacred seal of the goat on it for you! My only stipulation to make sure its healthy for all the consumers and truly organic is that the water comes from nuclear reactor cooling, and the air is from the exhaust. We wont have any health problems then.
Russ wrote:
purelife wrote:
I'm gonna come out with organic water and stamp the goat seal. Then, I'm gonna sell organic air on ebay.[/DIV]
Okay! Ill put the sacred seal of the goat on it for you! My only stipulation to make sure its healthy for all the consumers and truly organic is that the water comes from nuclear reactor cooling, and the air is from the exhaust. We wont have any health problems then.
So, next step. Who is going to be the guinea pig?
I produce my own organic water too.
Gopher wrote:
I produce my own organic water too.[/DIV]
This is very true! Brilliant Idea! It gets heated internally to kill any bad bacteria! This gets the GOLD sacred goat seal.
You are definitely ahead of the game, Gophie. Make sure you get the goat seal of approval to authenticate it.
ADD: Ok, Russ LOVES it.
Just like those darn logos on BC Apples! Not all the apples are from BC, that is just their corporation logo. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/8.gif)
We really live in British Columbia, right?
that is still just the company logo though. I think most of their apples are BC. But not 100%!
I know Washington State apples are worth sinking your teeth into mind you.
I wonder what kind of apples the Witch used to poison Snow White.
Adam's?
hmm I can't get you nuclear waste water, but I can get you water full of mercury. Bottling air would be easy, get it from China. Go global. lol
finest quality mississippi water with the best air from china money can buy.
find a celebrity to shamelessly plug it, watch the money flow.
We have a sad joke about East St. Louis. Its so bad, (run down, bombed out, deserted, lawless) that the criminals don't even want to live there anymore. Sure enough that sayings got merit, its worse to live in the towns around east st. louis) lol
its like its sooo bad, its good. lol
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Home. lol
at least they tore down [font face="Arial" size="2"]Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects. That was a disaster and the concrete buildings ended up with third world conditions. lol
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what it looked like inside.
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what happened was the mayor wanted to turn st. louis into the next manhattan of the midwest. So they copied the building ideas from new york that promoted social integration. They forgot though that st. louis is a historically racist city, where everything is racially motivated. White people were not going to move in with black people. Still doesn't happen now. Plan flopped, Nixon used it as political advantage to stop helping lower income families, and it was blown up.
Van wrote:
I heard this too.
What about the Canadian Dental Association stamp on toothpastes? Is that all BS too? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/4.gif)
GET YOUR OWN DAMN THREAD, SD!!! Grrrr..... how did this thread morped into St. Louis??? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)
Stamp on toothpastes by the CDSBC. Pretty strict regulation there. Each toothpaste must have so and so fluoride content in it to be approved. I will usually buy and recommend that anyone get a toothpaste recommended by the College. They're pretty trustworthy.
Oh er.... don't buy toothpaste from the $1 store. Remember? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/13.gif)
Yes, no toothpaste, candy, or anything else that goes in your mouth from the dollar stores!
LOL, Lise, I have yet to see a thread that wasn't sidetracked. I think it is cool.
So what's everybody listening to ? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
Lise wrote: Oh er.... don't buy toothpaste from the $1 store. Remember? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/13.gif) [/DIV]
Why? a buck is a buck! Teeth dont do anything for you anyhow right?
P.C. wrote:
So what's everybody listening to ? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif) [/DIV]
I couldnt tell you. Its in french and I know its a female singing though. I think.
Is it Mitsou singing Bye Bye Mon Cowboy?
Lil Me wrote:
Is it Mitsou singing Bye Bye Mon Cowboy?
Im going to go with a 'sure' on this one cause I couldnt tell you anyhow.
I know it wasnt Metallica if that helps
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Ah crap...... just forget the title of the thread. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/2.gif)
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