After years of healthy eating, it's heartbreaking to realize that America's version of healthy eating is exactly the opposite. I too was one of those people who drank Tab in high school because someone somewhere told me it was the "healthy" choice. I disliked the taste of so-called diet food and drink intensely, but somehow I stopped listening to my inner voice, and became that diet pop drinker, loyal to a fault. I never liked feeling starved, and I never liked the taste of totally fake "cardboard" food so my stint with microwave diet meals lasted less than a week, thank goodness!
My job was in retail management, crazy hours, crazy schedule. And lots of fast food! All of my home cooked meals were mostly made from scratch. But I ate the occasional shells and cheese. And quite frankly even my home cooked meals were mostly lopsided. And then there were the bottles, jars & mixes. So convenient! While my proteins were mostly fresh or frozen, and my cheese was always the real deal, there were always sauces, add ons, desserts. Oh, desserts, how I loved those!!
I quit diet pop about 1995, that was my last foray into artificial sweeteners. Instead I switched to full fledged HFCS, and then quit pop altogether, cold turkey, in 1998. Then about 2005 I decided to really start reading labels. I mean, REALLY READ the labels. A funny thing happens when you do that: the labels start to make sense and you realize what you are really eating. I cut out 99% of any high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) that was in anything. Challenging for sure, but I was still eating sweets, and I was still eating fast food. So while I was eliminating HFCS from everything I made I was really just ignoring it in the foods I bought out.
The next step after reading labels is really knowing what is on those labels. And then delving into what so-called healthy ingredients really consist of. Just like GMO's we have been led to believe that so many artificial foods are healthy, and when you start eliminating anything fake, processed, not-real from your body, well, your body fights back when you reintroduce it! Your body knows what it needs, but we have stuffed ourselves so full of chemicals and sugar that our bodies can no longer tell the difference.
There is so much more to my story, and my process of getting healthier but too much for one post!
So what led me to this blog? After years of trying to do the right thing, watching and reading, I am constantly amazed at what our populous considers the "right thing to do", and then I found this article this morning and I knew if I am just one more voice, enough cannot be said about the best reasons eat well. For ourselves, for our children, for our future. So here we are! If this article doesn't spark any sort of concern in you, please just keep reading anything you can find on the topic! And don't be surprised if I do another post about this article too! I am that astonished at our blindness! And a huge thanks to Kate Collins for introducing me to this article.
Have a happy ~ and yes, healthy ~ day!
My job was in retail management, crazy hours, crazy schedule. And lots of fast food! All of my home cooked meals were mostly made from scratch. But I ate the occasional shells and cheese. And quite frankly even my home cooked meals were mostly lopsided. And then there were the bottles, jars & mixes. So convenient! While my proteins were mostly fresh or frozen, and my cheese was always the real deal, there were always sauces, add ons, desserts. Oh, desserts, how I loved those!!
I quit diet pop about 1995, that was my last foray into artificial sweeteners. Instead I switched to full fledged HFCS, and then quit pop altogether, cold turkey, in 1998. Then about 2005 I decided to really start reading labels. I mean, REALLY READ the labels. A funny thing happens when you do that: the labels start to make sense and you realize what you are really eating. I cut out 99% of any high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) that was in anything. Challenging for sure, but I was still eating sweets, and I was still eating fast food. So while I was eliminating HFCS from everything I made I was really just ignoring it in the foods I bought out.
The next step after reading labels is really knowing what is on those labels. And then delving into what so-called healthy ingredients really consist of. Just like GMO's we have been led to believe that so many artificial foods are healthy, and when you start eliminating anything fake, processed, not-real from your body, well, your body fights back when you reintroduce it! Your body knows what it needs, but we have stuffed ourselves so full of chemicals and sugar that our bodies can no longer tell the difference.
There is so much more to my story, and my process of getting healthier but too much for one post!
So what led me to this blog? After years of trying to do the right thing, watching and reading, I am constantly amazed at what our populous considers the "right thing to do", and then I found this article this morning and I knew if I am just one more voice, enough cannot be said about the best reasons eat well. For ourselves, for our children, for our future. So here we are! If this article doesn't spark any sort of concern in you, please just keep reading anything you can find on the topic! And don't be surprised if I do another post about this article too! I am that astonished at our blindness! And a huge thanks to Kate Collins for introducing me to this article.
Have a happy ~ and yes, healthy ~ day!
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