THIS SHOULD UPSET YOU:
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/menshealth/10-dirtiest-foods-youre-eating
Notice that most of the foods in this article are Paleo? The reasoning behind these foods being "dirty" is 100% attributed to poor handling and lack luster storage enviroments. Yet nowhere do they mention that these foods are actually good for you under normal circumstances.
We, as americans, have developed such a low standard for where and how long we are keeping foods from the "Processed revolution". Most of you are already aware of the laundry list of negative affects these "foods" have on you. That would be an entirely different subject for a later post. Real food is perishable. The faster you understand this and remember it at the grocery store the better off you and your loved ones will be. We eat REAL food, not science experiments. In order to do that there are certain precautions we have to take. You would think this would go without saying but you can't leave real, once living food out for days (some will go rancid within hours at room tempurature) and expect for it to have the same positive affect on your body. Would you take your aunt that died last thanksgiving out to a dinner party in June? Not unless you're Andrew McCarthy. Perhaps that's a stretch since most of us also don't eat our dead relatives...most of us. It's still a good movie though. The point being, we have to work at eating just like we have to work at everything else in life. This means not just putting effort into preparing our food but also how we think. Buying in season, buying only what we know we are going to consume within the alotted time, cooking things first that have a shorter shelf life, trying not to resort to freezing foods unless completely unavoidable, cleaning everything thuroughly before during and aftercooking. These are things that are lost on a large portion of the younger community and I can only blame it on being lazy. If you don't know how to properly store or prepare something, ask someone who does. Your Mother isn't just there for christmas gifts, and if she doesn't know google it. Yes, I said google it. Don't act like you don't use it for everything else in your life. Don't let this be one more excuse to reach for the hydrolized modified high fructose cornstarch syrup dipped in caramel and packaged in airtight cellophane developed by nasa to outlive most of the human race and withstand a nuclear holocaust.
I promise the more effort you put into what goes into your body, the more benefits you will reap. Now get out there and eat some turkey, eggs, and cantalop!!
