Vegetables Buy You Happiness

I know Food Inc. touched on the fact that a lot of the foods we eat are corn products. I did some research - Everything we eat is corn! What’s interesting (and kind of gross) is that our bodies aren’t able to break down corn. Think about it. Now, take a look at the link at the end of my post – all of those things are made from corn and then put into other products that we consume. Our bodies can’t break down anything we eat! It’s all a big pile of non-nutritious starch that leaves our body the same way it enters. To me, this doesn’t seem healthy. It also seems to me that we’ve reached a wall (much as we did with the branding discussion). What can we really do? We’re stuck in this awful cycle of working for cheap and then buying cheap food. Personally, I started eating in a healthy manner because my father had a massive heart attack – My paycheck disappears pretty quickly now that I’m buying vegetables instead of taco bell. All the studies show that obesity is beginning at younger ages, but how can you expect young people to afford the lavish, healthy lifestyle that is supposedly easy to pick up? So which is more important? Being economically stable, or living a healthy lifestyle? It seems more and more that people have to make this choice. Two American values that are of great importance and we’re forced to choose one way or the other. I suppose that giving up a trip to the movies in order to add a couple years to my life by choosing to not block my arteries is the best choice for me.

 http://www.livecornfree.com/2010/04/ingredients-derived-from-corn-what-to.html