For many years now, a lot of women have lost the art of cooking a meal from scratch.
The main reason is quite simply the fast moving lifestyle we find ourselves living.
We have gone from wives/mothers staying at home to look after the children, making sure everyone was fed properly with nutritious meals, to women finding part time jobs when their children went to school. Unfortunately now, life in general has lost its balance, for women want to work full time, have children, but not to cook the healthy nutritious food, because they are too tired, or the husband does not share in the household tasks. Whatever, the individual reasons, it has fallen by the wayside.
Should this be the excuse? Let’s investigate the way people, that is adults and children are looking compared to say 25 to 30 years ago. “Obese” comes to mind!
Someone somewhere, saw an opportunity for bringing processed food into the market place for quickness.
What is processed food? It is simply a technique introduced which transforms a raw ingredient into other forms by adding chemical ingredients. The more a food is processed the worse it becomes for your health. It’s loaded with calories as well as the artificial ingredients. You, as an individual, have no say as to what goes into that food.
We all know, an ingredient is a substance which forms part of a recipe in cooking.
Therefore, once you decide what you are cooking, it follows that you know precisely the ingredients chosen for that meal.
With the commercial food pack, you do not have that choice it has been made for you. Of course now, by law they have to list the additives. Are you any the wiser when you have read them? I doubt it!
None of these foods should be put into the body for the sake of your health.
To understand, cast your mind back to how your grandmother and your mother prepared meals from scratch using natural ingredients. These meals were both edible and nutritious.
The techniques used were baking, boiling, using canned produce, dried ingredients even grinding and chopping the fresh herbs and spices. Yes, that’s correct the concept was known as cooking.
Today, in a commercial environment someone, other than a wife/parent decided on a large scale to mix foods and chemicals together offering them to us, the public, as an alternative. THESE ARE NOT NATURAL
WHOLE FOODS by their vary nature mean they have had nothing added or taken away. They contain vitamins and minerals together with micronutrients like fibre and beneficial fats.
Above, I stated how chemicals are added to processed food. There will be people reading this that might say, “But you find chemicals naturally in foods!”
Of course you do and some are toxic but not toxic in the amounts that we would consume.
For example:-cyanide in almonds, oxalic acid in spinach, rhubarb and parsley, benzene in bananas and cranberries. THESE FOODS ARE GOOD FOODS.
Acetic acid found in vinegar, lecithin is a natural emulsifier, sodium chloride or common salt found in rocks and I could go on. You could say that these are additives in the technically sense.
My point is that whether or not they are natural or artificial is of no consequence to the body for it cannot distinguish the difference. The chemical is the same regardless of its origins. Therefore what is important is how much!
Take control over your own life. No-one else will do it for you.
Thank You!
John Michael
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