Buah Salak/Snake Fruit and Yum! Brands no more BPA

Rye flax seed sourdough with fish pâté

Food Diary (May 27, 2011)

Breakfast: Rolled oats with raisins, toasted coconut, sunflower seeds and flax seeds

Lunch: Rye flax seed sourdough with fish pâté

Dinner: Pita bread with sautéed mushrooms

Baking/sweets: ‘oat sweets’

While writing the favourite blog section today I realized the importance of taking a holistic perspective when assessing whether we are eating healthy or not. Eating healthy and doing something unhealthy such as sleeping immediately after the meal or having 10 beers is probably not much better than eating unhealthy and doing exercise. I know this is common sense but most times the focus is only on food, not what happens, or does not happen, afterwards. In a similar manner buying locally is not necessarily better for the environment. I blogged about this in January. You can read more here.

Today's Favourite Photo

Source: Camemberu

Buah Salak or Snake Fruit – an exotic fruit, a really exotic fruit.

Today’s Favourite Blog

Source: Care2

For those of us who are health conscious, watching what we eat is one part of the story, there are other factors that contribute to the overall health effects. Eating at KFC may or may not be healthy, what happens immediately after when the receipt is handled is not healthy. Confused?

Yum! Brands, the owner of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC, has agreed to eliminate the use of BPA-laden receipt paper. BPA is used in the food and beverage industry for its ability to prevent contamination while extending the shelf life of canned products. It can also reduce the life span of humans that consume the canned products whose shelf life was extended by BPA.

Tests have shown that handling receipts with wet or greasy fingers absorbed about 10 times more BPA. Next time you eat chicken it might be good to wash your hands properly before paying, or get someone else to pay, your enemy preferably. You should wash your hands even if there is no BPA in the receipt, its good hygiene!