Do you buy the correct food?

Time to promote Easter treats. Target the children as they are an easy market to prey on!

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People think that eat good quality food when the reality is unfortunately different. When you go and take a look at the local supermarket then you realize that most foods are junk. What consumers carry in their trolleys is not a good indication that that person/family are purchasing the correct foods to be able to achieve a state of good health. Besides, schools don't include in their curricula "Nutrition" as a subject and if they do what they teach is quite limited. The reality is quite frightening because as we know: You are what you eat.


OK, let's take a look at the various foods you can find in a supermarket trolley in the city where I currently live (Brisbane, Australia):

1. Soft drinks
2. Pastry
3. Biscuits and savoury biscuits
4. Highly processed breads, i.e. sliced white bread
5. Sauces
6. Various edible oils, butter and margarine
6. Processed meats
7. Processed cheese
8. Breakfast cereals, doughnuts, waffles, etc.
9. Frozen fast foods

All this junk is sold in many supermarkets around the world and make people believe that it is healthy for them. Far from that, as they are loaded with sugar, fat, additives and preservatives that create addiction. Major food companies label, heavily promote and sell them to the public, and this people don't care about your health. Their policy is pure profit and to achieve that they act in similar fashion as tobacco companies do with cigarettes: load their products with addictive substances in order to sell more.

I advice you to introduce a food-plan where you slowly start crossing out the items I listed above and replace them with natural alternatives (fruits, vegetables, nuts, fresh fish, etc.). It will required some time to achieve this goal since your taste buds and your controlling mind have been accustomed to from the very moment you started consuming them. It requires habit to break a habit.

Also, this problem will be aggravated if the consumer is happen to follow a sedentary lifestyle since the system is clogged with all the poisons deposited by the consumption of junk foods.

My recommendation is to stay away from most of the foods sold in the supermarket if you are to live a healthy and disease-free life.


Some photos I took today at Woolworths (Indooroopilly, Brisbane), the largest supermarket chain in Australia. They are all in order starting at the top:

1. Frozen desserts

2. Tim Tams (highly addictive garbage)

3. Dips section






















































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