What is it going to take to get North Americans to eat better? What shocking piece of new evidence needs to come out to make us finally get the crap we let pass for food off of our plates? What if scientists told us eating foods high in saturated fat and sugar can cause heart disease, high blood pressure that can lead to strokes, type 2 Diabetes and cancer? Oh wait....they do. What if experts told us that our daily walk or even daily run is not enough to offset the negative impact of our crappy diets? Oh wait...they do.. Are we just so used to reading and hearing about it that we have become desensitized to the truth?
Anyone who is reading this blog knows the above is true but what does it make you think about your own food choices? It's not that we don't know, we know, we all KNOW and we still don't do anything about it. Why?? What do we need to see and read that will make us change the food on our plates?
This???
Shocking and scary isn't it? Or is it? Maybe we just say to ourselves, "Well, I have a friend who eats healthy foods, walks and plays golf 3 times a week and she was just diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and my grandfather ate and drank whatever he wanted and he lived to be 87!." In fact that is exactly the diagnosis a dear friend of mine just received and my husband's grandfather did eat whatever he wanted and lived to be 87. We all know people with similar stories and we can rationalize anything but we all know the real truth: our food can kill or cure.
So it's back to being a choice, and aren't most things in life always a choice? We must first choose to be healthy and then do what we need to do to get there. The odd bit of junk food is not going to kill you, remember it's what you do everyday that counts not what you do once in a while.
Maybe start here:
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