Apple + 4 pretzels * prune juice = I’M STILL HUNGRY! GIMME A DONUT!
Don’t you hate eating these days? ‘They’ tell us what we should, and shouldn’t eat, and then change their minds. Eggs have been good, then bad, and back and fourth 5 times over. Then they figured out we should only eat part of the egg. Thanks for nothing. Milk was good, but now only a certain kind of milk is good. You have to do calculus just to figure out what kind of milk to buy. (2% + 1% - whole skim = I’M THIRSY AND MY COOKIES ARE DRY!)
Even water was declared bad. People were diluting their blood and dying because they drank too much water. So they say people who drink a lot of water should drink ‘sports drinks.’ You know, the ones filled with fake coloring, corn syrup, and taste like berry-flavored cat piss. This is aside from the people who still claim fluoride in the water is a government conspiracy.
And how can we forget the fad diets? Atkins, South Beach, Grapefruit, and binging and purging. It would be nice if people used their heads when going through with these plans. Does eating a side of bacon, but avoiding a slice of bread like the plague make much sense? Any nutritionist or rational person will tell you that it isn’t avoiding carbs, or fat or this or that, but overall calories. But keeping track of calories involves more hard math. (Apple + 4 pretzels * prune juice = I’M STILL HUNGRY! GIMME A DONUT!) So people take the easy way out, and either go with the fad diets, lose a bit of weight, gain it back 4 times over, and sue fast food companies. God bless America!
There doesn’t seem to be any real food anymore. Everything is loaded with over processed substances once known as food (Cheez Whiz? What the hell is that?), or filled with hormones and steroids. Remember Olestra? Yeah, it makes chips less unhealthy, but it also makes you crap your pants involuntarily. Yellow #5? I’d rather eat non-yellowed foods and keep my testicles the normal size. Aspartame? No thanks, I prefer not to have cancer.
High fructose corn syrup is an interesting one. It’s in just about every processed food. Just read the labels of things in your pantry and refrigerator; probably 90% of it all has high fructose corn syrup in it. Because of this stuff, sweetener consumption has gone way up in America in past years, which is bad for our heath on many levels. America’s sweetener consumption is almost double that of the rest of the world, largely due to high fructose corn syrup. Studies have been conducted that link high fructose consumption with obesity and heart problems. What has higher fructose than high fructose corn syrup?
It’s also interesting how high fructose corn syrup got so popular. In the late 1970s, corn growers had their lobbyists get a bunch of subsidies. Because of that, there was a ton of excess corn, and nobody knew what to do with it. Scientists developed this corn syrup, and because there was so much of it, it was cheap. Soda and other processed food makers found it was cheaper to use this than sugar, and started dumping it in their ‘foods.’ After all, when has a food maker ever cared about our health? And what was done with the rest of the corn? It was given to cows and other livestock, which isn’t even healthy for them to eat. It makes them fattier and haves less nutritional value for those of us who eat them.
There really is no solution to this. It’s nearly impossible, or at least impractical, to avoid processed foods. Organic foods are many more times expensive than regular, and many people can’t afford it. In my opinion, the best way to make our food healthier is the ol’ cliché of stopping the lobbyists. They prevent the FDA from properly doing their job, and let a bunch of unhealthy food on the market. The subsidies put a false price on food, so even if people want something healthy, it’s the unhealthy food that’s widely available and cheaper. It destroys the free market.
So next time you’re eating Cheetos or Mountain Dew, ask yourself if consuming fluorescent food is worth your health.