2 pesky ingredients!!!

Two little ingredients that I detest. Why, oh why are they in everything that americans eat???

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE & HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

everywhere...stuck in product after product to drive me crazy!!! I long to see more healthy children and adults, I long for people to feel helathy and feel good, get off their medications, and to feed themsleves with good, real food!!! that truly is all the body needs. So here is a start to changing some of those habits and just familiarizing yourself with food. It takes years to get to know how the food system in our country works. Here I am 6 years into researching food and the way we eat, and I am still learning, still adapting...and feeling AWESOME, healthwise!!! It also takes many, many steps backwards.....learning and relearning to change our way of thinking.

One of the things I started doing about 2 years ago was read the ingredients of every product I picked up off the shelf. Silly me for thinking sour cream isn't just soured cream!!!! I buy this brand - Daisy..it is everywhere, in almost every store.

cause actually it is just 1 ingredient - grade A culture cream. But most other brands consist of cream, milk, whey, modified corn starch, sodium phosphate, guar gum, sodium citrate, guar gum and carrageenan........NOW IS IT EVEN NECESSARRY TO ADD ALL THAT STUFF?????

Every soup can, every bag of potato chips, even a can of pinto beans, can of tomato sauce, Salad dressing, barbecue sauce, every sauce!!...and those are just the simple food items - I won't even delve into the boxed meals and hostess cupcakes - cause honestly I haven't picked up those things in at least a year - so I would hate to be inaccurate ;) Anywhoo....take a look at the ingredient labels of the stuff at home. I am not talking about the fat grams or the sugar grams or calories - just ingredients..familiarize yourself with what is really in your food!!

Are you shocked to see that High fructose corn syrup is everywhere?? fruit snacks, tomato sauce, soup, can of beans, granola bars! I don't even need to mention baked goods and sweets, right?? that is just a given :) They manage to stick it into stuff that doesn't even need it! How about MSG - it is in every flavor of chips, it is soup, soup broth, it is in spices....I just found out a few months ago my chili powder that I buy at the sams club includes MSG...I was floored!!! I thought Chili powder was just powdered chili's!!!!!

MSG and HFCS they are flavorings, they are additives and I could delve into all the research and the studies and all the things that point to these 2 ingredients and how bad they are - how they relate to Obesity, headaches, tiredness, anxiety, depression, add, etc, etc.

Instead I will just say take a look at your food ingredients, use common sense. It is a flavor enhancer,a simple additive - food companies, fast food chains and restaurants they use the ingredients to enhance their food plain and simple. Our tongues, our brains love the flavor, the rush, and in turn our brain loves the addiction, makes us feel crappy when we deprive ourselves of it, and there isn't a single good thing about it - it's of no benefit to our bodies. Why not try cutting out a few of those items, find your replacements! There are many brands that will produce a healthy alternative with real ingredients - like Daisy, all of their products are all natural, no additives!

thanks for stopping by and reading, I really hope to keep up the blog and share many things that I learn and it will probably all be very random....a lot of times I will learn something new and just want to share it with the world! Hopefully I get back to my scrapping and can get some LO's up too!!

I would love to hear feedback on the blog or by e-mail, any questions, confusions, anyway I can help adults and kids get healthy!!