Food Industry Claims All Foods are Healthy
The food industry and the tobacco industry have more things in common than you might think. The tobacco industry denied claims that smoking was addictive, or even unhealthy, for years and years. Well, the food industry is doing the same thing only with government support!
The food industry's stand is that no food is unhealthy. That all foods, regardless of ingredients, are all part of a healthy diet.
It's time for us to wake up and see the incredible body of misinformation about our food for what it really is... lies!
Any food with high fructose corn syrup, bleached white flour, saccharin, aspartame, nitrites, refined carbohydrates, hydrogenated oils, MSG, artificial colorings or any number of thousands of other chemicals and additives, is bad for you. Period. Regardless of what nutrients have been added. It's not possible to combat the bad ingredients with token nutrients and have the food item turn out to be healthy for you. It's like willingly taking poison and then taking a few vitamins to counteract it.
We absolutely know that there are some foods that promote obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, artheriosclerosis, high blood pressure, and many other chronic diseases. We also know that there are other foods that prevent those diseases - whole foods, whole grains, whole nutrients.
The food industry denies this. They extoll that no food or beverage has any effect on our health. The food industry is giant business. It's big money. It's big power. And it is controlling our health by refusing to tell the truth in their research and on their labels.
"You are what you eat" is an old addage because it has stood the test of time. Diabetes, cancer, obesity, and 65% of all diseases today are directly attributable to what we eat (and drink).
The real truth is that what we consume has a direct effect on our health. And, it's been proven time and again. Good health comes from good foods, bad health- diseases - come from bad - refined and processed - foods.
Did you know that the food industry hires researchers to disprove that fundamental truth. And they add nutrients to their foods and can legally make wild claims about positive health effects. However, consider that many truly healthy products, such as herbs and superfoods, can not legally make those claims!
Many ingredients in our refined and processed foods are literally poisons and are slowly, cummulatively, poisoning us to disease and death. Not to mention that so many natural ingredients are stripped from the foods that consuming them is starving our cells to death!
Every cell in our bodies is built by the foods we eat. Every organ in our bodies is supported by the foods we eat. Healthy foods lead to healthy lives. Unhealthy foods lead to unhealthy lives.
Most of the health claims on our food labels are nothing more than misinformation. It's so hard for me to believe that all of these untrue claims are allowed by the FDA - but they are. You can't put calcium or lutein or some other nutrient into an unhealthy food and claim that it's good for you!
How can you tell, personally, that your diet is an enemy of your health? Start here.
The food industry's stand is that no food is unhealthy. That all foods, regardless of ingredients, are all part of a healthy diet.
It's time for us to wake up and see the incredible body of misinformation about our food for what it really is... lies!
Any food with high fructose corn syrup, bleached white flour, saccharin, aspartame, nitrites, refined carbohydrates, hydrogenated oils, MSG, artificial colorings or any number of thousands of other chemicals and additives, is bad for you. Period. Regardless of what nutrients have been added. It's not possible to combat the bad ingredients with token nutrients and have the food item turn out to be healthy for you. It's like willingly taking poison and then taking a few vitamins to counteract it.
We absolutely know that there are some foods that promote obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, artheriosclerosis, high blood pressure, and many other chronic diseases. We also know that there are other foods that prevent those diseases - whole foods, whole grains, whole nutrients.
The food industry denies this. They extoll that no food or beverage has any effect on our health. The food industry is giant business. It's big money. It's big power. And it is controlling our health by refusing to tell the truth in their research and on their labels.
"You are what you eat" is an old addage because it has stood the test of time. Diabetes, cancer, obesity, and 65% of all diseases today are directly attributable to what we eat (and drink).
The real truth is that what we consume has a direct effect on our health. And, it's been proven time and again. Good health comes from good foods, bad health- diseases - come from bad - refined and processed - foods.
Did you know that the food industry hires researchers to disprove that fundamental truth. And they add nutrients to their foods and can legally make wild claims about positive health effects. However, consider that many truly healthy products, such as herbs and superfoods, can not legally make those claims!
Many ingredients in our refined and processed foods are literally poisons and are slowly, cummulatively, poisoning us to disease and death. Not to mention that so many natural ingredients are stripped from the foods that consuming them is starving our cells to death!
Every cell in our bodies is built by the foods we eat. Every organ in our bodies is supported by the foods we eat. Healthy foods lead to healthy lives. Unhealthy foods lead to unhealthy lives.
Most of the health claims on our food labels are nothing more than misinformation. It's so hard for me to believe that all of these untrue claims are allowed by the FDA - but they are. You can't put calcium or lutein or some other nutrient into an unhealthy food and claim that it's good for you!
How can you tell, personally, that your diet is an enemy of your health? Start here.
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