The Wrong Idea

       Sometimes we eat things that we don't even think about. There are parts of our diet that we try to cut down on calories and then there are other parts of our diet that we just eat absent-mindedly.

       A good example of that is breakfast. Many people have cereal and milk for breakfast. It is just part of their routine, but they don't even realize what their eating. Many cereals are not natural and contain many preservatives. They are also sugar-loaded. In the last few years, what used to be fat in our diet is now sugar. In the 60s' and 70s', Americans diets were loaded with fat because it made the food rich and as a result, food was delicious. In the 80s' there was a huge turnover where people realized that fat was probably not the healthiest thing to put in their bodies. Companies started making fat free foods, but there was one problem--the food was missing much of the flavor that once was there. To replace the fat, sugar was added to our food and we now have a diet that is very high in sugar. There are healthy breakfast cereals out there, but the breakfast cereals that actually taste good are the one that say they have nine grams of sugar in one serving. One serving is only about half a cup and that is not enough food for the average person to run their day on. Most cereals actually about twenty grams of sugar, which isn't looking very good. Almost all breakfast cereals, including the healthy ones, are fortified with vitamins which do no good for your body because all the nutrients that were originally in the ingredients, were destroyed in the process of shaping the cereal. Cereals also contain high amounts of GMO products, which cause food allergies, liver problems, fertility problems, etc. So I'm sorry, but that cereal you use to jump start your morning really isn't the healthiest choice. 

        I have a list of food that people think are good for them, but I'm only going to list two today, for sake of time. I might continue this post some other day.

        It really bothers me when someone says to me that their choice of drink is healthy because it is sweetened with an artificial sweetener. It isn't healthy. The negative affects of drinking diet soda are much greater than the negative affects of drinking soda sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. There is a link between diet sodas and Metabolic Syndrome, depression, and preterm delivery, all of which are much worse than weight gain. Diet sodas might also lead to Type II Diabetes. I do not want any of those things, so I'm just going to stick to water.