It’s one thing when you walk into a supermarket, and everything on the shelves is like 90% junk, that you shouldn’t be eating, but when companies go as far as false advertising… it’s very disturbing.
Since when is fruit drenched in corn syrup considered fresh? How can be something be healthy if one serving (1 cup) has 75mg of salt, 30g of sugar, and hardly any real nutritional value?
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on America’s ignorance of food.
Back in about September of last year I went to the Ubuntu LoCo Birthday Bash in Lakeland, and met a nice woman named Kimberly who had recently changed her eating habits and was glowing! I wasn’t glowing, and actually feeling quite horrible about my eating habits, so she decided to share her “secret.” She had actually gone to a gym, picked up a ‘First for Women’ magazine, and found this article:
She was feeling great, looked great, and it was all because she was eating nothing but raw, plant-based foods. I think that’s pretty amazing.
I started reading The China Study yesterday, and the concept is the same throughout the book. Pretty much, stick to raw plant-based food, and avoid animal proteins. I know that T. Colin Campbell, the doctor who wrote the book, would probably be peeved by the fact I’m even associating his book with something “fad dietish,” but I think if it’s done right, there could be some good results.
