Food is a loaded term. Deceptive marketing using trendy buzz words lures you…the gullible public…into believing that preformed packaged food is better for you than real food from the produce department or farmer’s market. Sadly, for over 100 years, we’ve been duped.
Salt Fat Sugar: How The Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss dives into the down and dirty of the processed food industry’s deceptive marketing schemes making us slaves to their products. In this book, he describes the food giants’ unscrupulous methods and tactics in such detail that I had to put the book down to control my anger.
Processed Food: One Big Science Project:
Unknowingly, through all forms of processed food and drinks, you are consuming things that hardly resemble food of any kind; they are science projects under the guise of conveniently packaged items with claims of goodness and health building ingredients.
Realistically, these projects consist of some stripped form of real food along supplemented chemically designed flavors, artificial colors, and modified food additives to increase cravings, maintain texture, and extend shelf-life that come together miraculously packaged as “food”.
Connected to Real Food
You are what you eat. Yep, you’ve all heard that one at some point. It’s the absolute truth.
What you eat literally gets broken down into usable parts that your body uses to function. Your body recognizes real food that is living and made from the earth because it is similar to your body’s physiology. When you eat real food, it easily breaks down for optimal results because its made with similar components . Check!
When you eat processed food and drinks filled with chemicals and additives that are non-living and dissimilar to your physiology, your body has to work really hard to convert those fake elements into something living and viable for your body. There is some success, but most of the time, these fake elements are considered foreign invaders forcing your immune system into action. The result is inflammation that can lead to bigger problems down the road.
Paying the Price with Dis-Ease
Well, here’s the unfortunate skinny, you are being effectively and efficiently poisoned right under your nose, and you are paying the price with malfunctioning bodies and cloudy brains. It’s time to face this truth and figure out how to clean up the food. It starts with teenie-tiny pivots that eventually lead to big changes in how you eat and ultimately how you feel.