But...There's nothing to eat!
what a dilemna. Have you ever walked into your closet which is most likely overstuffed and overfilled with clothes and have literally said to yourself...hmmm, I have absolutely nothing to wear! It's not only an ironic statement, but beyond that, it's a ludicrous statement.
We as American and other industrialized people are saying the same things about our food.
We have grocery stores and food marts, restaurants, and even our own kitchens, stuffed to the brim with food and foodstuffs, and yet, when it is time to eat, we either usually revert back to the same old standby, or we look at the offerings and say, wow, there's nothing to eat!
How is this possible?
How did we go from a nation which valued a big hearty breakfast, but had little knowledge, and little chronic disease to one that is scared to eat, doesn't know what to eat, or how to eat, and yet, there's so much more knowledge available to us now than there was in the past? How is this possible?
Where did the messages fail?
Where did we go wrong in educating or developing technology? And what can now be done about it?
We now live in a food environment that is poisoning our bodies, and not in an "immediate" sense that it would be if we drank some arsenic, but the food we eat which is full of additives, flavor enhancers, chemicals, hormones, and has been changed, warped, and metamorphosed into a completely new form is in fact...poisoning out bodies.
Every day we are putting toxic substances into our body, and these substances do not go away slowly, they are stored in fat, they contribute to heart disease, they poison our cells with too much sugar and other chemicals that do not belong.
So, what is there to do about it?
Eat close to the earth, eat like a hunter-gatherer, urge your congressmen to demand healthier food supplies with regulations against big agro-business that they cannot poison our foods with unhealthy fats, sugars, and chemicals just to make money.
I can't promise you, but I'll bet, the makers of these foodstuffs don't eat the food themselves, because they know it is unhealthy, they probably sit at home eating organic foods and laughing at the fact that we make them rich by eating their foods.
Sure, they're not maliciously saying, hmmm, let's hurt people, but they are saying, I don't really care what's in the food (until it's popular, such as "new whole grain General Mills" unless it helps sales, and let me tell you), they just want it to sell.
So, the sad part is...we have more knowledge, more food, and more access and availability to find out good inforamtion...yet...there's nothing to eat!
what a dilemna. Have you ever walked into your closet which is most likely overstuffed and overfilled with clothes and have literally said to yourself...hmmm, I have absolutely nothing to wear! It's not only an ironic statement, but beyond that, it's a ludicrous statement.
We as American and other industrialized people are saying the same things about our food.
We have grocery stores and food marts, restaurants, and even our own kitchens, stuffed to the brim with food and foodstuffs, and yet, when it is time to eat, we either usually revert back to the same old standby, or we look at the offerings and say, wow, there's nothing to eat!
How is this possible?
How did we go from a nation which valued a big hearty breakfast, but had little knowledge, and little chronic disease to one that is scared to eat, doesn't know what to eat, or how to eat, and yet, there's so much more knowledge available to us now than there was in the past? How is this possible?
Where did the messages fail?
Where did we go wrong in educating or developing technology? And what can now be done about it?
We now live in a food environment that is poisoning our bodies, and not in an "immediate" sense that it would be if we drank some arsenic, but the food we eat which is full of additives, flavor enhancers, chemicals, hormones, and has been changed, warped, and metamorphosed into a completely new form is in fact...poisoning out bodies.
Every day we are putting toxic substances into our body, and these substances do not go away slowly, they are stored in fat, they contribute to heart disease, they poison our cells with too much sugar and other chemicals that do not belong.
So, what is there to do about it?
Eat close to the earth, eat like a hunter-gatherer, urge your congressmen to demand healthier food supplies with regulations against big agro-business that they cannot poison our foods with unhealthy fats, sugars, and chemicals just to make money.
I can't promise you, but I'll bet, the makers of these foodstuffs don't eat the food themselves, because they know it is unhealthy, they probably sit at home eating organic foods and laughing at the fact that we make them rich by eating their foods.
Sure, they're not maliciously saying, hmmm, let's hurt people, but they are saying, I don't really care what's in the food (until it's popular, such as "new whole grain General Mills" unless it helps sales, and let me tell you), they just want it to sell.
So, the sad part is...we have more knowledge, more food, and more access and availability to find out good inforamtion...yet...there's nothing to eat!
posted by Dana M. Ellis, MPH, R.D. @ 6:13 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:37 AM,
A.Manasa said…
This is a great commentary. It's so true we are living a contradictory existence, borne by luxury, when we say we have nothing to eat. What Poonam and I have done to combat this is to limit our grocery shopping to when the refrigerator is, indeed, devoid of edible food. In addition, we bias our food purchases towards healthier and locally-grown produce. This way, we prevent our food from spoiling, waste less money, eat healthier, and never have the problem of having too much of things we can't (don't want to) consume.
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