Shopping Carts
I don't usually get excited about shopping carts, but I am this morning.
This is my friend Kelly's grocery cart - she sent the picture last night.
In Florida a few weeks ago, she said, "OMG! You look like Adonis! An absolute God among mere mortals! Your biceps could be the boulders from which masons carved your chiseled abs! You appear as though you'd been Michelangelo's inspiration for David. . ."
OK, fine, she said none of that.
But she did notice I was a bit trimmer than last fall when I saw her in Nashville.
"What did you do?"
My answer was as simple as her grocery cart.
"I ate real, whole food."
I tell you, the state of US grocery stores is a shame.
Nearly criminal.
No different than the way the cigarette makers covered up all the bullshit additives and their nasty schemes to get more people (myself included) hooked on their product.
A lot of the stuff in our food supply is poison to humans.
Here's a question: would you drink a little gasoline in your morning coffee?
Not much, just a splash.
Or would you put a little WD-40 on your kid's toast?
That's rhetorical, of course, but disguised as Red #40, there's petroleum in the cereal, pop tarts, and energy drinks that many start their days with.
I don't know what this does to our bodies.
But I know it ain't good.
Humans are not meant to eat or drink petroleum, yet we have it in our food supply ON PURPOSE!
And it's everywhere in the grocery store.
Almost everything on the inner isles that comes in a package contains Red 40, Blue 1, or some other synthetic crap.
If not that, then highly processed oils, tons of sugar, emulsifiers, gums, stabilizers, seven kinds of salt, and whatever else they use to lower the production cost and maximize shelf life.
And I ate that shit for decades.
Even packaged "health food," such as granola bars, is mostly garbage.
It's no big secret that exercise is a crucial component of optimal health.
But the food, well, it's somewhat secret.
Because Big Ag and Big Food have done a spectacular job of confusing us.
Fortunately, it's very easy to avoid 99% of that garbage.
Fill your grocery cart with real, whole foods, and leave the stuff with ingredient lists on the shelves.