You are what you eat...

Just a reminder that we live in the EU folks.

A lot of the really crap junk food sold in the states isn't sold here because our health and safety laws prevent it.

Read the bit in Fast Food Nation about the slaughterhouse workers trilled to bits when they have to process animals for export to the EU because our regulations slow down the process enough so the job can be done hygienically.

We don't use corn syrup because we don't subsidise corn as much, we don't use GMO, we test for mad cow disease, we've banned many things still legal in the states like hormones in cattle etc, etc,

So even if that article was true most of would only be true for the US.

But tripe like

By definition, white bread and refined flours in general are toxic for your body because they have been stripped of virtually all vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other important nutrients. Because of this, the body does not know how to properly digest and assimilate these so-called foods, which can lead to health problems. Refined white flour has also been bleached with chlorine and brominated with bromide, two poisonous chemicals that have been linked to causing thyroid and organ damage

means it's just scaremongering.

The reason why you are supposed to eat a balanced diet is that different foods have different levels of nutrients. Any article that suggests that a particular food is bad because it doesn't contain everything you need to survive on it's own is infantile.

My blood boils at "the body does not know how to" because it suggests a person who hasn't a clue how the digestive system or regulation works. Hint enzymes are dumb, liver and kidneys are pretty good at their jobs and our ancestors have had a very long time of opportunistic nibbling to become fairly omnivorous (though we do need Vitamin C)

Oink wrote: »

You don't know what you're missing. Half of the goodness in something comes from knowing how bad it is .

The sweet, sweet taste of guilt.

There are good bad foods and bad bad foods.

Cream and all those very rich things are guilty pleasures.

Chocolate *I need my theobromine godamit*


Empty calories like walkers crisps ( it's like they've heard of crisps but never actually tasted real ones ) anything with corn syrup or it's derivatives, stuff with plasticisers ( water is 800 years filtered, best before date is next month ) and the flavouring chemicals in microwave popcorn are bad bad (real butter is better)

And besides most american foods are insipidly sweet.
*wants peanut butter without sugar or paying the Kelkin "health food" premium*