You are what you eat...ew!

WARNING: This posting contains high levels of preaching and brainwashing. Read with caution.

Read the label on any processed food (usually comes in a nice sounding, unrecyclable wrapper and has a shelf life of = unlimited.) Usually, all the ingredients are made up of some chemically engineered element of either corn or some other synthetic substance. It's right at your allowance budge, but it may end up costing you more when you're constipated on the toilet or filled with embarrassing toxic gas.

So why do we eat such foods? Bad for the environment and our health, but oh so good for the soul! You won't be slaughtered off like that poor Kabul goat (see photo above). Just limit your intake - especially before test day, race day, game day...when you're not feeling well, or coughing up a lung.

Take One:

I challenge you. For the next 3 days, check the ingredient label of everything you rip open and eat. (Or better yet, before or while you eat.) If any of these following items are listed, think again!

1. corn syrup or high-fructose corn syrup
2. artificial flavors or colors
3. hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated soybean oil (or anything partially hydrogenated)
4. MSG (mono-sodium glutamate)
5. sugar listed as the first 3 ingredients
6. modified starch (or anything modified)
7. maltodextrin
8. xanthan gum
9. ascorbic acid
10. crystalline fructose
11. caramel color
12. glucose syrup

Take Two:

I challenge you to avoid such foods that contain such ingredients for 3 such days. Why not give healthy eating habits a try? Where in the heck would I reach for a quick bite now? What? You mean I'll have to eat real fruit and veggies? What?! Nothing I can buy at the gas station on the way home? Nothing to change the color of my milk, tongue and fingers? What?! Why must I eat REAL food?!

If you're still craving frilly, fancy dyes on your fingers, peel a red beet and rub it all over your face, body, and or sibling...avoid the walls for your parents, please.

Enjoy!