hearing about unhealthy food choices. Believe me, I do not claim to be pure in food choices but watching an Oprah show about the documentary "Food Inc." was thought provoking. A few years ago I read "Skinny Bitch" also about making informed food decisions - but carefully skipped the chapter on the cruelty in raising some animals.
As you know there are no shortcuts in life, you need to crawl before you walk - if you don't you still need to learn to crawl....well I guess I needed to learn a little about how our food is being raised.
28 million pounds of antibiotics consumed by the animals we eat
So it is not just calories, fats and carbs - calories in vs. calories out, we must consider what has been added and what has been taken out of our food choices. Chickens are now raised and slaughtered in 1/2 the time; they have been re-engineered to have larger breasts (because we prefer white meat), they never see sunlight, the rapid growth process does not allow for their bones to support their weight - so they cannot take many steps...and so on
OMG! A good friend of mine spared me this graphic vision - when she informed me that she recently decided to eliminate meat (chicken) from her diet.
Michael Pollan "Food Rules" does not profess total elimination - but he does want us to be conscious of our food choices - free range animals, less antibiotics, grass fed! If you read the previous blog on Dr. Marla Friedman - perhaps this was one of the books she quoted. (the name escaped me) The result of all these antibiotics being ingested - germs that are resistant to antibiotics.
Children today consume twice as much soda as they do milk - Let us divorce from sugar!
As always - way too much information for a blog - but worthwhile to consider.
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