Connecting The Dots Between Food And Health

Did you ever wonder if what you are eating is actually killing you? This might not be what you want to converse about, however the facts are the facts and the experts are warning us that what we eat may just be doing us in. It is no secret that much of this is just opinion until you rationally look at the data, there might just be some truth to all the hype.

The days of meat and potatoes with all the butter, extras and mouth watering gravy that made up the family dinner time is all but gone in America. This probably wasn't the best food lineup to eat all the time and the experts were quick to point this out. The confusing part to all this expert advise is that back in the day, obesity wasn't a national health epidemic. Despite all the new changes that have restructured the food pyramid, society as a whole continues to be less healthy and more obese.

So really what is the deal with this? How can we continue to watch what we eat and eat diet everything and a ton of low fat, low cholesterol foods and still be obese and unhealthy? Well the answer is simple, it is a trick.

As bad as the foods of yesterday appears to have been, at least they were natural. The over processing in the lab or adding of chemicals had not yet produced the foods that found their ways on to the grocery store shelves as they do today, all under the guise of making them better for consumers. Our bodies were designed to process foods that come from nature, not the highly processed gauntlet of stations our food goes through today. There is a rising number of Celiac disease cases and it is believed that this is the reason why. Even the FDA stamp has been added to the foods that are causing alarm in the general population as being good for us to consume, when in fact this might be where much of the trouble is coming from.

Many people in the know believe that the FDA isn't really on the American consumer's side any more. They are a government agency and the food pyramid no longer reflects the best dietary format for Americans, but instead reflects which lobby groups are paying the most at any given time to this government agency. The research and news press releases indicate today Americans should consume more dairy products; tomorrow it is the meat products and next week it is the vegetables and fruits: it really depends on which lobby group is paying the most to the powers that control this well financed machine that controls the American diet.