Eat Real Food

If you're still eating processed food, this may be what you need to hear to stop.....Purdue recalled over 90,000 pounds of chicken nuggets this week as they discovered pieces of blue plastic in them!  My advice is what author Micheal Pollan advocates....Eat Real Food.  Not too much.  Mostly plants.  You won't find pieces of plastic in a real fresh chicken from the meat section of the grocery store.  And you definetly won't find it in the fresh produce section either. 
Chicken nuggets are nothing more than corn wrapped up in more corn.  The "chicken" in the nuggets was fed massive amounts of government subsidized corn.  The batter is made from corn flour.  Corn starch holds it together and the whole thing is fried in corn oil and can be conveniently consumed with one hand in a car.  Of the 38 ingredients that it takes to make a nugget, about 13 of them come from corn (1).  And if all this corn talk doesn't make you sick, how about the fact that 6 Chicken McNuggets have almost twice the fat as a regular hamburger.  Convenience now at the cost of health issues later?  I choose to eat real food and to educate my children about healthy eating.  Understand what you eat and appreciate that you are what you eat and what you eat eats, too!
(1) Pollan, Michael.  The Omnivore's Dilemma (New York: Penguin Group, 2009)