Food for Thought, Or Thought for Food?
By: Michael Homan | Posted: 08th August 2006
Food for Thought, Or Thought for Food?
It used to amaze me seeing someone at the local Mc Donald's ordering a Big Mac with fries and a soft drink and they ask for a diet soda. If did not matter that the cashier talked them into supper sizing their meal of fat and high sodium, they made things right by ordering a diet coke.
I am not trying to make fun of anyone here, we all have done, or still are doing silly things like these. We fool ourselves into thinking we are doing the healthy thing, the right thing.
How many times have we gone to the local grocery store and picked up some low fat this or that? Maybe we picked up something that said, low sodium?
But the truth of the matter is… we can fool ourselves with some, or all of the marketing tricks that the makers of junk food have laid out for the unsuspecting consumer.
The REAL FACT is that if your food or drink is not natural, than you know the answer to the question, "Is this healthy or not?"
Even store bought vegetables are tainted. Vegetables are much better for all of us, but the nasty little truth is, they are sprayed with chemicals. When were chemicals introduced into the health pyramid?
Another thing about vegetables is the soil in which they are grown in. If you buy your vegetables at a large grocery chain store, chances are, the vegetables you are buying were grown in soil of mass produced fields that have little or no nutritional value. Sue, some of the farmers put man-made nutrients back into the soil, but when was it proven that they are as healthy as the real thing?
Now here is another side of the same coin!
I have a grandmother that never ate all that well. She always worried about her weight, so she picked lightly at food. She never took on single vitamin or supplement. She is still living, now in her nineties. She has a few problems, but who doesn't at almost one hundred years old.
So the real question is… is it our food that is making us sick and unhealthy, pollution, or simply what's in our minds?
Michael Homan is a Reiki Master and studies natural healing methods such as Acupressure, Electro-Acupuncture, Reflexology, Crystal Therapy, Chinese Magnetic Cupping, has his own e-Book called "4 Steps To A Pain-FREE Back!", and has a health related web site devoted to health issues and natural healing techniques called HealthGrowHealthier.com.
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