Eating Healthy - Eating Safely

Losing weight can be a difficult process. It's so discouraging to eat food in moderation, and still gain weight. You can't figure out why your body is not responding to your dieting efforts.

And it's not your fault.

The culprit is the food industry with their excessive chemical additives of all kinds. It's almost impossible to eat healthy, unprocessed foods these days.

Even if you eat only organically labeled foods, which not every family can afford, almost anything you buy at the grocery store, or health food store, will contain some corn and soybean byproducts. The corn and soybeans are Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO).

The practice of growing and selling GMO is so widespread that it's almost impossible to avoid consuming them, even if it's only small amounts of these substances.

The problem with GMO is that there are no long term studies that show that these genetically engineered (GE) substances are safe to eat.

The agricultural industry loves GMO because they are cheaper to grow. And the food industry loves them because they are cheaper ingredients to put in the processed food they produce, while still keeping their prices high for more profits.

Cancer Rate On The Increase

If you find it puzzling that the US has had such an alarming increase in cancer and other deadly diseases in the last couple of decades, think about the chemically laden foods most people buy at the grocery store. And very few people are even aware that this is happening to them.

Grow Your Own Food?

If you decided that you were going to feed your family with the same healthy, safe foods that your ancestors ate prior to 1900, you would have to produce your own food.

But even then you would have to be extremely careful about the seeds you used to grow your food.

When you would order corn and soybean seeds to plant in your backyard vegetable garden, the seeds you received would most likely be genetically engineered. And you would unknowingly be back to the same unsafe food problem.

Dangerous Chemicals In Our Food

The most appalling fact is that many chemical substances fed to us by the food industry in the US are actually banned in most European countries, and in China.

What did we used to say to travelers going overseas? "Don't drink the water!"

I am sure that people in these "unhealthy water" countries will soon be telling their own people travelling to the US, "Don't eat the local food while in the US."

It sounds preposterous, but if it happens, they will be well justified in saying it.

My name is Juan Rademacher.

I have lost a lot of weight, over 75 pounds, by eating healthy foods.

Lately, I have become increasingly aware of how unhealthy my "healthy" weight loss foods really were. Therefore, I now eat mostly raw foods, and I try to do so by buying as many organic foods as my budget will allow.