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It’s an enlightening, yet troubling journey up and down the food chain.  From the flora and fauna found outside (as well as inside) our supermarkets… to the end product we find on our dinner plates.

Here’s the Amazon link to the book:

http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/0143038583/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283833734&sr=8-2

Using hydrogenated oils in foods is a strategy employed by many companies of all sizes, to enhance the taste of their foods and extend the shelf-life and shelf-stability of those foods while saving their money; trans fats are considerably cheaper to use than natural fats.

The risk to us?  On-going destruction of our cell membranes without notice until disease has fully established and shown itself; from myriad cancers to strokes, to ubiquitous heart disease - no one is immune to its hazards.

Your goal is to avoid it’s consumption at every turn, don’t merely minimize it - some will slip into your diet anyway because its everywhere. 

Don’t buy anything in the store with hydrogenated oils included in the ingredients.

Fried food is often fried in hydrogenated oils, making an already unhealthy method of food preparation a complete and total disaster to our health.

Restaurants serve food loaded with hydrogenated oils – don’t eat out frequently.

Select your own food, prepare your own food and know your own food, before you consume it.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is merely another sugar… and sugar we simply get too much of already.

On the other hand, Partially Hydrogenated Oils are a dangerous and toxic ingredient at any measure and they should be eliminated from our diets.

When at home… if you aren’t hungry enough to select a nice quality piece of produce, such as baby carrots, sliced apples, segmented oranges, a pre-cooked sweet potato and so forth, then you’re simply not that hungry; you’re merely bored, stressed or thirsty.

The StrengthLab adage to “eat less, eat better and move more” still rings true.

First, buying relatively inexpensive, processed food lowers the quality of our overall nutrition and endangers our long-term health.  Secondly, by purchasing relatively lower quality, processed food we’re supporting the very companies who make it available to us.

Eating better does frequently cost more, but remember… we’re voting with our dollars every time we buy the right things from the right companies.  We need to support the farmers, stores, markets and restaurants who are making a healthful difference and while doing so, we’ll be helping ourselves, as well as our future generations.

Recommendation: pay more for quality food, prepare it yourself and eat less of it!

Whole foods are foods that are unprocessed and unrefined (or as little as possible) before being consumed.  Whole foods typically don’t contain added ingredients such as sugar, salt, fat, chemicals, artificial preservatives, colors or sweeteners.  Examples of whole foods include unpolished grains; fruits and vegetables; unprocessed meat, poultry and fish.

Fast, easy and cheap food comes at a high price. 

Plan your food… keep produce fresh and available, know what’s for dinner and don’t rely on what’s simply available when you get hungry.  Educate yourself concerning food and put some thought into what you eat.

Benefit number two… is that the whole fruit contains minerals and micronutrients that would have been lost, had it been separated from it’s natural flesh and squeezed. 

In addition, all mass marketed juices are pasteurized (or flash super heated) to extend the juices shelf life (even Naked Juice flash heats their products) which destroys much of its valuable health properties. 

Juices that are freshly squeezed that day are still no match for the whole fruit - don’t let the juicer infomercials fool you.

But this superfood is only getting started with that aforementioned quality; it’s loaded with other health properties and it’s really inexpensive. 

Steam them and eat them plain for best results.  C’mon don’t be afraid… they’re good for you.

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