This little article has been making the rounds.
Titled “The 7 Foods Experts Won’t Eat”, it describes the horrors of various items from microwaved popcorn to canned tomatoes. At first glance these foods seem to have nothing in common. But look closer: each one has been tampered with. None are in their natural form. Whether it’s corn and soybean fed cows or pesticide laden apples, none have escaped the heavy, and toxic, hand of man.
What does this boil down to? The less people have touched the food, the healthier it is. The organic-by-default lettuce and tomatoes growing in your backyard garden top the list. The boxed, processed, partially hydrogenated cookies in the middle of Safeway fall somewhere towards the bottom.
It seems like a lot of nitpicky information. Details that no one but a holistic nutritionist (hello!) would know. Well, first of all, that’s what you pay us for. But second, it’s worth taking a few minutes to enlighten yourself about what you’re actually putting in your body. It’s what you’re made of, after all. And who wants to be made of growth hormone, insecticide, and herbicide?
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2 Responses to “Seven Foods Experts Won’t Eat”
i read that article. the information about canned tomatoes was new to me. while the article shares information a nutritionist would already know, perhaps it is a useful piece if it enlightens someone, like me, who is interested in nutrition but is not anywhere close to as well-informed as a professional in the business? just a thought! thank you for stopping by my blog, i totally agree that a healthy diet includes fats!
It is definitely a useful article. I was just trying to highlight the bottom line: eat whole, unprocessed foods!
i read that article. the information about canned tomatoes was new to me. while the article shares information a nutritionist would already know, perhaps it is a useful piece if it enlightens someone, like me, who is interested in nutrition but is not anywhere close to as well-informed as a professional in the business? just a thought! thank you for stopping by my blog, i totally agree that a healthy diet includes fats!
Comment by liz — December 15, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
It is definitely a useful article. I was just trying to highlight the bottom line: eat whole, unprocessed foods!
Comment by Stephanie Small — December 17, 2009 @ 2:28 pm