yeahh my posts usually aren't this long, sorry.

[magic_general]

I've started to be really, really against eating processed foods.

High fructose corn syrupHigh fructose corn syrup is in SO MUCH of what we eat/drink. It doesn't trigger satiety responses in your body, so you eat more and more of the food, which is most likely devoid of nutrition. HFCS gets converted to fat right away, rather than getting

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[evilprodigy]

Yeah, I'm moving in this direction too. :\ Opening your eyes to how the things we eat, buy, and use are made (and what they're made of) is a bit of a rude awakening, isn't it?

[magic_general]

serious! It's just disturbing.

[lonlonmilk]

aghhh, I love chocolate :( but I don't want to eat "insect fragments" or support child labor/slavery.. and I don't eat meat so at least I feel a little better about something on this list :)

[magic_general]

http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/main.html#TableDescription

There's a list of OK/fair trade chocolates. I love how the "Tony's Chocolonely Slave-Free Chocolate" is listed as NOT being fair trade and probably is made by slaves. lol.

I might join you there ;)

[mischeviousgrin]

ew omigod i love you for posting this. I'll favorite it and keep it and maybe i'll go on a crazy diet. Maybe this is the shove i need to loose a whole laod of weight this summer. lol.

[magic_general]

Yeah I'm thinking about a NO CORN PRODUCTS UNLESS IT'S ACTUAL CORN diet.