Today I started my diet of 2004. Just ten pounds I want to lose, but it will take me ten weeks. I decided to pop some orville redenbacher popcorn, feeling pleased at the choice I had made. Until I read the ingredients on the microwave popcorn. Artificial color, why?

It's obvious why everyone is getting cancer. These days they put artificial color in most everything, not to mention all the additives which preserve the food. The price we all pay for fast food is going to kill us. All the packaged meals we can buy at the grocery store are full of dangerous additives.

So how can we eat healthier? If anyone has figured that out please share with us. I know we can grow our own garden. We can slaughter our own beef, etc. But even then we must put additives in the meat to preserve it. What did they do when they ate meat in the days before electricity? They must have killed the animal and ate what they could, throwing the rest away .

When we are a child our immune system works well and we can get away with eating all the preservatives that are in our food. But as we age our immune system weakens and we can't fight off the dangerous consequences of eating all this fast, convienience food. That is why we get cancer.

I think there really is a lot of truth in the benefits of eating as many fresh fruits and vegetables as we can. The only drawback is I don't like fruits and vegetables! I like macaroni and cheese and mashed potatoes and gravy, lol!

>>It's obvious why everyone is getting cancer. These days they put artificial color in most everything, not to mention all the additives which preserve the food. The price we all pay for fast food is going to kill us. All the packaged meals we can buy at the grocery store are full of dangerous additives.

So how can we eat healthier?<<

I agree that we eat too much crapp as in preservatives, artificial color, fillers and just plain junk and we call it food because we like it--it's convenient. Nearly everything you buy is filled with something we don't need and can't necessarily digest.

The best thing to do is try and make it yourself from scratch. I wouldn't go so far as to living off the land, but just make better choices when shopping. Don't buy cookie mix or prepackaged cookies, buy the flour, sugar, etc and make them yourself---much healthier (if one can call a cookie healthy).

As for popcorn, I always pop my own and if you want microwave, buy the microwave popper you can put in your microwave and use regular popcorn. I hate air-popped corn from the machine, so I just pop mine in a big pot on the stove with a little vegetable oil. It really doesn't take but like 2 minutes longer and I don't get all the chemicals to eat. And hey, it's cheaper to buy regular popcorn and take the money you saved and buy some other junk food!!! haha just kidding about the junk food, but I think you know what I'm saying here.

Hamburger helper for example. Read the box. The ingredients will scare you--if you can't pronounce it, you certainly don't need to be eating it. Oh, but I like hamburger helper you might say? Okay, then make your own. It isn't difficult. There's a very basic recipe which all hamburger helper is based on and most people have it on hand in their own kitchens, without the preservatives.
Just like bisquik---the kind you buy has preservatives, but you can make your own.

You can make your own pre-cooked fast foods too. Want minute rice? Make a double batch of regular rice and freeze the leftovers--then you have minute rice. If anyone wants the actual recipes, I can look them up online for you. I just printed all of mine out and keep a folder of them in the kitchen.

It isn't difficult to cook from 'scratch', once you get in the habit of it. There are even top secret recipe books so you can make your own versions of fast foods. I have a couple of those cookbooks and yep!! they taste like the genuine article but the only difference is that I 'know' what ingredients went into my food and I 'know' an employee didn't drop it on the floor or something worse before serving it to me. (it happens!)

The further away you get from 'Mother Nature' the worse it is for you.

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