'85 Broads' tagged blog posts in My Story

PepsiCo  is taking a drubbing from investors and analysts alike.   Critics claim in its effort to broaden itself, Pepsi  lost focus of what really matters, Coke.   Evidently the pundits have PepsiCo’s entire value wrapped into the race for the number two cola spot; number one’s been a lock for Coke for decades.   Investors  have the attention span of a hummingbird responsible for market dips...

Last week, it was reported that diet based illness has now surpassed smoking as the leading cause of mortality.   With all the laws governing smoking, this should sound an alarm over instilling greater dietary responsibility now.  It should also have legislature recognizing that taxes successfully levied on one vice, could be equally effective on another, everything from potato chips to video games.    Further, the ...

Amidst the recent e-coli deaths in Europe traced to a German sprout farm, researchers discussed its decreasing incidence here in the US, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304665904576383582242952932.html?KEYWORDS=food+illness+and+the+kitchen#articleTabs%3Darticle.

While e-coli has been cut in half over the past 15 years, researchers were puzzled that salmonella did not follow suit. The researchers cited a slight dip in the percentage of 1,000 people who reported, in an on-line survey, washing their hands...