Excerpts from HEALTHY EATING: For Extremely Busy People... #35

Snacks and Convenience Foods

What To Eat

• potato chips (infrequently)
  
  • baked
    
  • no chemical additives
  
  
• fake french fries - bake instead of frying
  
  
• carob, unsweetened
  
  
• baked goods
  
  • fruit juice sweetened
    
  • whole grain flours
    
  • no chemical additives

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Note: The recommendations for healthy eating on this blog and in Healthy Eating are recommendations for foods that are generally considered healthy overall. But everyone is a unique individual and even generally accepted healthy foods may not be what your body needs to be healthy now. Find out how to feed your unique nutritional needs.

Fruit on the Label Doesn't Mean Fruit in the Package

A recent study by the Prevention Institute evaluated the fruit content of children's foods. They found that some of the foods actually contained NO real fruit at all.

Here are some of the "fruit" products with NO fruit in them:

• Berry Berry Kix
  
• Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries
  
• Froot Loops
  
• Fruity Cheerios
  
• Trix Cereal
  
• Trix Yogurt (Strawberry Kiwi)
  
• Nestle Nesquick Milk and Drink Mix (Strawberry)
  
• Yoplait Go-Gurt Yogurt (Strawberry Splash)

All of the products evaluated were relatively high to very high in sugar.

This really shows the need for reading and understanding labels before you buy. What the manufacturer says on the front of the package may be far from what's really in the products.

Read the report.

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How Fresh Is Your Meat, REALLY???

If you look at color to make sure your beef is fresh, you may be deceived!

The food industry is up to their tricks again to fool the consumer into believing the food they're buying is fresher and healthier than it really is.

The majority of U.S. beef producers are injecting their beef with carbon monoxide to give it that just cut pink color. This process makes rancid meats appear fresh!

The FDA approved this procedure without any public comment.

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How do you make sure that the beef you eat is really fresh and not contaminated with carbonmonoxide? Buy organic.

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New Food Industry Trick

What do you get when you combine sugar and caffeine?
Buzz Donuts and Buzzed Bagels.

This is the food industry's attempt to get you addicted to baked goods! Their target market is the college population specifically and Generation Y in general. Robert Bohannon, the inventor of this technology, has approached Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks to form partnerships for selling these caffeine-contaminated unhealthy foods.

Caffeine is actually a psychoactive, addictive drug. It can cause headaches, irritability, fertility problems, increase risk of miscarriage, birth defects, heart disease, depression, nervousness, behavioral changes, insomnia and more. Caffeine should NEVER be given to kids.

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Note: Everyone is a unique individual and even generally accepted healthy foods may not be what your body needs to be healthy now. Find out how to feed your unique nutritional needs.