first, go after the chemical companies that load our foods with poisons -
I ‘do’ organic as much as possible, eat NOTHING with HFCS -or things I can't pronounce in them.
I grow veggies and buy from local farmers and otherwise try to eat foods like I grew up with on a little farm in the forests of Maine -
Food manufacturers are intent on one thing: MONEY (and the FDA is in bed with them) - and that includes lots of chemicals to prolong shelf-life = which reduces the consumers “shelf-life”...
Bottom line: we need to take charge of our life/health. We are the only ones, ultimately, who give a rats rump about us.
I went this way too. Sleep better at night and I am 15lbs. lighter.
Also, do you have any allergies? I have noticed a great improvement this year compared to last year. I have increased the locally grown food, especially herbs. It may be the cooler weather, but I have yet to take a pill to relieve any symptoms.
HFCS is cheap because of corn subsidies. We need to either remove subsidies from corn, or add subsidies to healthier fruits and vegetables to encourage a diet shift in the US. Something is seriously wrong if 100% whole wheat breads and pastas are 200% the price of white processed breads and pastas. It should be the opposite just based on the effort to produce each one, and the reason why it isn't is probably because of market distortions created by the Dept. of Agriculture. See my post #27 for a link to a UC study on how nutritious food is more expensive.
I ‘do’ organic as much as possible, eat NOTHING with HFCS -or things I can't pronounce in them.
That's great, but I think that if we only removed white processed grains with the fiber removed, and HFCS from the American diet, it would handle most Americans' obesity problems without any further changes--although getting people outside for 20 minutes a day for a walk would be good...