Are We Too Obsessed With Processed Food?

Fat people everywhere! Why do we get fatter? The foods we eat are no longer good for us. Then we take these vitamin pills that do not work.......and think we are doing the right thing.... all while having our waist lines expand. Check out www.suspensiongel.net to see why 'supplements' do not work..... and info on how to ingest foods that are natural.....and good!

CJ: It really depends on what you're taking. First of all, I do not trust supermarket vitamins. I use Animal Pak, which is a high-quality vitamin with better forms of nutrients and good absorption. I think the best supplements are those extracted from real food though. I take dessicated liver tablets and kelp capsules, and boy do those work. I would recommend dessicated liver to anyone who wants better endurance/oxygen utilization.

I believe it is part of the problem but it is still the people eating the food.

Michale Pollan's view on processed foods here

His "rules" summarized here

Basically he says "don't eat any processed foods with more than ~5 ingredients. Stay natural and cook/grow things yourself. Nutritionism is making us fat by causing us to focus on 'nutrients' instead of whole foods that we know are good for us. Why not just eat the carrot instead of taking a vitamin A pill or eating some other processed 'enriched' food."

An interesting, albeit lengthy analysis. I tend to agree.

In my opinion I think its not how the food is done, but how much the consumer eats of it.

The rule at my house to prevent processed foods from entering is: if my 5 year old can't pronounce it, it doesn't get bought.

So we have natural smoothy juices and real fruit ketchup that's in a jar, usually homemade, and real cheese and homemade jams. Real bakery bread, with whole organic grains. (You know it's good when it doesn't keep for more then 5 days.)

It's a lot of work and it's very expensive but I see a difference in my energy levels and my "coat". My hair is much shinier and silker and skin is much smoother and even.

Yay for whole foods.

Yay for Genn!

Don't put toxins in your kids

Here's my first words on it:

http://angrymom.blogspot.com/2007/01/if-your-kid-is-fat-its-because-you.html

Yeah for BREYERS ALL NATURAL VANILLA ICE CREAM: Ingredients: Milk, cream, sugar, vanilla.

I'm not even kidding! If most desserts are actually eaten as a dessert... in moderation and in the correct serving size... they aren't even bad for you!

Hallelujah! And 100 points to "Housewife" (read your blog). As a kid we NEVER had dessert after dinner (what is that all about anyway?). Back then, I lamented that I had a sandwich on dark pumpernickel bread and that it was different than other kids' lunches; pouted that I only had cornflakes to offer my friend on sleepovers instead of Captain Crunch. But now, as an adult, I thank my mom for serving us only whole, healthy foods and keeping sweets out of our diet as children. Neither my brother nor I have ever had weight problems as adults. Parents aren't just providing a shelter for kids like they're some wayward traveller, they're supposed to be training them so they develop good habits for life.

Erica, if they are made from those ingredients, I agree. The problem is most ice-cream reads more like:

milk, cream, skim milk, cookie dough [wheat flour, brown sugar, sugar, butter, eggs, margarine (partially hydrogenated and liquid soybean oils, water, salt, whey, soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides, artificial flavor, beta carotene color, vitamin A palmitate), chocolaty chips (sugar, partially hydrogenated coconut oil, cocoa processed with alkali, cocoa, soy lecithin, vanillin, salt), natural flavor, water, salt], sugar, chocolaty chips (sugar, coconut oil, cocoa processed with alkali, partially hydrogenated coconut oil, cocoa, salt, soy lecithin, natural flavor), corn syrup, natural flavor, cellulose gum, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, carrageenan, annatto color, dextrose

(that is Dreyer's Cookie Dough flavor).

Genn, your post reminds me of an excellent Animaniacs song, "Be Careful What You Eat". It all starts with wanting to have some ice-cream, so it also relates to Erica's post.

I think the best thing is just to stay out of the middle of the grocery store for the most part. Shop the outside of it mostly. You know, the part where there is the fish, meats, veggies, dairy, and bulk items. I pretty much just stay out of the isles if possible. (sure there are some things in the isles you have to get but you get the gist of what I am saying)

This keeps me from buying mostly processed foods. It also keeps my grocery bill a lot lower too!

I think this is the reason girls are getting their periods at age 9 and growing mustaches by age 12.