Sunday Story...10 Great Excuses to eat Bad Food (part 1)

Food plays a central part in everyone’s life. Although we don’t have to forage and hunt for our daily meal we do have very tough choices and a huge amount of conflicting information about what we should and shouldn’t eat. Here are some of my favorite excuses for poor (processed, sugary, bad fat) food choices. With a slightly incredulous tone of course!

It’s too expensive to eat real food
Have you ever bothered to do the math? What does a bag of carrots cost? Or a whole pot full of broccoli? Have you compared that box of Hamburger Helper with the cost required to make it yourself? And all I am asking about is the real monetary cost not the secondary costs of poor health and diseases caused by poor nutrition.

It’s too much work
Well it isn’t as brainless as add water and microwave that is true. But then you are a grown-up, not 6 year old trying to feed yourself. How hard is it to put some chicken on a baking dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and turn the oven on for 30 or 40 minutes? Or break 2 or 3 eggs in a pan of hot butter and stir until they are cooked? This is not rocket science; it is a really simple and easy skill to develop with just a little bit of effort and a decent cookbook.

“They” (the government/scientists/experts) said I should eat this way
“They” rarely have your best interests at heart. A very good example is the food pyramid…when it was first developed by a solid scientist it was just about upside down from what it is today. But after the government and the business interests got through with it we are told to eat tons of grains (the cereal companies), dairy (the milk lobby), and breads and pastas (industrial food companies). The vegetables didn’t have a lobby; neither did the seeds or nuts. The question we should be asking ourselves is this: If this was such a great way to eat, why, after 40 years of a low fat, high carb diet, are we fatter and sicker than ever before? We are the most well fed and worst nourished people in the history of the world.

I could never give up my (fill in the blank again --- Ice Cream/Soda/Pie/Cake)
What if the choices were stop eating it or die? Then what would you do? Because in many ways that stuff is killing you…slowly but it is killing you in ways you won’t even know about for years to come.

I’m too busy to plan/cook/shop
How busy will you be when you are making all those trips to the Doctor’s office, the labs for teats and the pharmacies for all the pills your Dr. is going to need you to take? You get the same 168 hours in the week I get. At the Foodee site (www.thefoodee.com ) they will even make a shopping list for you for crying out loud. It really isn’t difficult but you do have to want to do it. You have to want to make the shift.

The Bottom Line
It doesn’t have to be expensive (stop replacing cheap crap food with expensive crap food…just because it says gluten free or lactose free doesn’t mean it is any better for you). It doesn’t have to be time consuming or hard unless you want to make that way. It won’t be boring if you open your mind to something besides boiled chicken and steamed broccoli. “They” make more money form you being sick and tired than “They” will ever make from you being fit and healthy. Don’t diet, eat real food prepared in a real kitchen by a real person (Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines are long gone and beside they never really put that crap in the box anyway) with real care and love. You will eat less, you will feel better, you will perform better, and you will be healthier.

Call me…I can help.

Namaste
John
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