The Food Babe Menace

[kybearfuzz]

I've read about this lady who calls herself the "Food Babe," who proclaims herself to be a champion of food safety against "toxins" and "chemicals" in her food. "Organic" food = good. Anything else = bad. In the past, she's gone after Pumpkin Spike Lattes at Starbucks over their caramel color (which was harmless), but managed to convince Starbucks to change it.

Her favorite thing to do is to take a food ingredient out of context and project it to the masses as dangerous and life-threatening. If the ingredient has more than three syllables, she's even worse. What's worse is that I've actually seen others do this on Facebook, talking about potassium chloride in bottled water and how it can cause heart attacks. Potassium chloride in trace amounts in bottled water won't hurt you (it's added for a mineral taste). Potassium chloride is in sea salt, which is actually considered healthier than using iodized sodium chloride. However, a 50% solution potassium chloride can kill you. See, it's all about context.

I recently "liked" a page created by someone called the "Science Babe." She's an actually scientist, with degrees in chemistry and forensic science. She's a perfect foil to the "Food Babe," and actually posted a link called "The Food Babe Blogger is Full of ($#!+)" (NSFW language). I thought it was a great read.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning!

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

There's no doubt in my mind that Food Babe will one day work for Fox News. If she isn't already, that is...

[dendren.livejournal.com]

hahaha nice. Lately I've been just a little grumbly around some of our staff who work in the Nutrition program. I'm all for promoting a healthy food atmosphere at work (we do work for the Public Health dept after all), but they are getting juuuust a little too pushy lately. Recently I saw them walking about taking pictures of things like bowls of candy on staff's desks. I just know it's going to show up in some awkward and annoying presentation at some point :P

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

So she's just like FOX NEWS THEN...

[boobooirl.livejournal.com]

I think we are very much agreed on this whole topic of fake science.
It actually hurts me to read such nonsense

I just want to shout at these people to get a proper scientific education if they want to preach about it

[barak.livejournal.com]

I loved the line " Don't base your diet on the pronunciation skills of an eight-year-old."

She rocks!

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

I 've been following the science babe for some time. I almost posted that same link today. It's all kinds of awesome. In fact, I think I will post it!

*runs over to FB*

:-)