Do You Really Know What You’re Eating?  The Truth Will Floor You!

by Shin Ohtake on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 • 26 Comments

You are what you eat.  It’s something we all understand (intellectually) but don’t take it seriously enough.  (And I was reminded of that myself, after watching a documentary called “Food Inc.” A great film…and I have to say, even for me, some of the information was quite disturbing.  So much so, that I decided you need to know about it…so I wrote a little about it myself.  I highly recommend you watch the film.)  It’s much easier to look over the obvious and pretend that everything is fine.  I mean everyone else is eating it… so it must be okay…right?  Well, considering the epidemic rate of obesity and diabetes, I’d say that following what majority of others eat, is not such as wise idea.  But in all fairness, the food industry makes it extremely difficult for you to eat well.  I mean have you noticed that you can buy a burger for a buck but you can’t buy an apple for the same price?  How does that make sense?  In fact, if you went to your local grocery store and started comparing prices of processed foods to real foods like vegetables and fruits, 9 out 10 times the processed foods are cheaper. How can that be?  It’s processed, doesn’t that mean, it should cost more?  It takes more time and energy into making each product right?  You would think that what comes out of the ground or grows on trees as mother nature intended would naturally be cheaper than anything that has to be processed.  But logic takes a back step when greed and profit become the primarily motivator.  What’s happened to our food industry is not only alarming but darn right scary.  Find out more…

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