Studlover (imported) wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:04 pm
This leads me to believe that the food that is sold even is grocery stores in the USA is POISON.
All you have to do is read the labels and you can confirm this.
If it's not loaded with sodium, it's loaded with fat. If not that, then it's loaded with sugar. If not sugar, then it's still full of complex carbs...filler.
Another interesting thing I have noticed, living in a rural community with easy access to larger cities is this:
On the south end of the county, most of the kids live on farms or mini-farms and mainly consume what they grow. That, or the small local grocery store stocks local produce and meats. The kids on the north end of the county, where most of the fast food places and bigger grocery-chain stores are, eat mainly grocery store-ready-to-serve stuff and fast food.
The kids - especially boys - on the north end of the county are generally larger, fatter, have more health problems, and attain full height earlier than the kids on the south end. Meanwhile, the smaller kids from the south are generally more active and much healthier than their northern counterparts, albeit smaller.
The old country doctor recently retired on the south end of the county, creating a huge void in medical care. He knew it, but no one listened to him. But as I spend a lot more time down there, either socially or with work, the difference in health and build of the kids is shocking. Even if you line up the seniors from each graduating class, you can see the difference. Even in the adult population, you don't see the obesity problem that you do in the small-city-end of the county.
Feeding people is big business. There's a LOT of money to be made in the grocery racket, and cheap fillers are a fast way to high profits. More chemical preservatives to make food last longer on the shelf, less returns, longer due dates on products, and less employees stocking and checking also leads to reduced payroll, thus generating more profit for the company.
Also, what's in that fast food meat that isn't cooking out, or even the grocery store meat? Drugs? Preservatives, who knows?
If you stop and think, we didn't have all these rampant health problems years ago before corporate America began running amok.
There was one asthmatic kid in school when I was a child - me.
There was one diabetic kid - Krissy. Her's was genetic.
We had 4 kids with glasses in our class, K-12.
Being out sick usually happened during the big cold/flu season. Then it passed.
Broken bones were a rarity, and we were much more active and had more dangerous playgrounds and toys.
Big ordeals with the dentist were not common. A filling here and there, and that was it. No one had metal caps on baby teeth.
One thing also mentioned by an old retired barber of mine was the infrequency of haircuts. Does hair grow slower these days? Don't know. But haircuts were the bane of our existence as kids back in the early 70's, and the old man's business was good.
Then again, we didn't have all the chemicals/junk in our food, either. I grew up living in a small rural area, and eating what was mainly grown in the huge garden and meat that came from real animals butchered and packaged at home. For the other half of the year, when I lived in the city when school was out, Mom came "home" and did her grocery shopping through Grandma's cupboard. It was as the teen years approached that all that changed, but still, the foods you bought at the store, even then, weren't nearly as toxic as they are now.
I remember I had a serious weight gain problem while living with mom in the summers in town. And it wasn't that I was inactive; we were always out for the day doing something. There were no video games or computers. The only factor was the pre-packaged food and fast food. When I'd leave town, I'd lose weight.
However, it seems that this is the world we live in. Even if you can find healthy stuff, it's still going to be "contaminated" by something. The best you can do is try harder to avoid the worst stuff, and hope for the best.
Good grief - this processed ready-to-buy-and-eat shit will kill an elephant!
