Some of this I’ve borrowed from Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food”; some from WebMD or the Mayo Clinic or other trusted online sources; the rest just from paying attention to how I feel after I eat something.
- Real Food is unrefined and not manufactured, which excludes white flour, white rice, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. If you just stop or minimize eating food with these things in it, you’ve already won.
- Real Food will rot.
- Real Food probably comes from the perimeter of the supermarket – unprocessed fruits, vegetables, dairy, meats.
- Real Food is pronounceable and has ingredients that are pronounceable.
- “You are what what you eat eats, too.” That grain-fed steak was fed too many industrially grown seeds, which made it sick, so it was given antibiotics, which you’re eating too. Yum. Buy and eat “grass-finished” beef or “pastured” eggs.
I think that’s enough. If you’re eating according to one or more of these definitions, your body is already grateful.
~Rick
A veritable plethora of names for sugar:
Brown sugar, Corn syrup, Demerara Sugar, Dextrose,Free Flowing Brown Sugars, Fructose, Galactose, Glucose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Honey, Invert Sugar, Lactose, Malt, Maltodextrin, Maltose, Maple syrup, Molasses, Muscovado or Barbados Sugar, Panocha, Powdered or confectioner’s sugar, Rice Syrup, Sucrose, Sugar (granulated), Treacle, Turbinado sugar, Florida crystals, Hydrolysed starch, Fruit juice concentrate, Polydextrose, Evaporated cane juice, Beet sugar, Grape sugar, Mono, di and/or poly-saccarides, Caramel, Raw sugar, …
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