Food Horror

#health #nutrition #bpa #FDA

Wow. Following on from my bpa post the other day on canned food here's a few more things to worry about in your food supply and your health.  Food is medicine and our nutritional source's are in many cases bad medicine.  They are affecting our health.


Food Horror!!


It is hard to understand how we can end up with so many threats in our food supply.  When you consider how long some of the technologies we use have been around why the effects on nutrition and health haven't been better studied and reported is a mystery that opens us all up for serious health risks.  


Take the example in the article of microwave popcorn releasing a chemical into the popped corn that causes infertility.  We know this and the microwave popcorn is sold without any kind of warning label?  Even though companies are voluntarily phasing the chemicals out by 2015 so they obviously know about the health issues?  All this with an FDA watchdog who should be protecting us?


The mind really does boggle.  I guess it is time to get more serious about forming a local food coop to source fresh groceries from local farmers who grow organically.


Theoretically the best health move you can make is to eat plenty of fresh living food like vegetables and fruits that haven't been treated with tons of chemicals and pesticides.  But eating vegetables from a can is obviously now out.  Fresh vegetables can be contaminated like the recent Lysteria outbreak here in Denver from Rocky Mountain grown Cantelopes.  


At the point we are at with the technology and knowledge we have why is it so hard to come up with a guide on eating for health and protection of the nutritional values of our food?