For starters, the other day I was doing a little grocery shopping, (super exciting way to start, right?), well, as I was doing my usual thing of standing in the middle of a random isle looking up to the ceiling trying to remember everything on my grocery list that's still sitting on my kitchen counter, I reach over and grabbed a package of "healthy" turkey dogs that I thought my husband and I could both eat because on this diet you can have all the lean meat you want. Now, usually I would take this item's labeling at face value, feel pretty good about choosing turkey dogs over it's beef and pork cousin, thinking that that's something a T.V. health nut would suggest doing, and then be on my merry way. However, lately I have found myself turning to the back of the package and looking at something that is apparently called an "ingredients list" (I know, right?). So, I'm standing there, smiling a little, thinking, "this is a great choice, the front of the package says it's healthy," and I keep smiling until I get past the second ingredient, after which it reads: "corn starch, corn syrup, sugar..." and then of course that all ambiguous ingredient, "flavor," that's all it says... "flavor," this package doesn't even have the courtesy to have natural in front of that.
All right, so some of you may be thinking right now, "what's so wrong with corn starch and corn syrup?" I could go into a very drawn out tangent about how the food supply has been ruined by the chemicals we put on and in our crops, but I won't do that (if you want to learn more about that one, there are two documentaries that I recommend, one is called Fresh, the other is Food Inc.). I am just going to say as simply as possible that corn is a grain, not a vegetable, and grains turn to sugar in our bodies.
Well, although it can be kind of annoying having to read the labels of EVERYTHING I buy, it honestly has opened my eyes, and given me a different outlook on what food actually is, but I'll get to that on another day.
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