Thanks – so many need to know these things and be aware of them ..

Karl – Yes, I enjoyed Evita’s article, too. Such great information more people need to know about!

Megan – Food Inc had such a huge impact on me. I love how you use intuition and energy . I recently met someone who does that work and I may purchase a session or two to do the same.

In a nutshell, after watching the movie and knowing what I do about politics and Corporate America (it’s all about money!), I believe food marketing & labeling is horribly misleading. I am not convinced that the US Government – FDA or otherwise – has our best interests at heart. I believe whatever makes money is what they’ll market.

That being said, I actually use intuition and energy testing to choose the majority of my foods now. Muscle testing, or kinesiology, helped me eliminate foods that weren’t a good vibrational match for my body. It’s amazing what our bodies instinctively know; we just have to tune in and listen.

I think food marketing is misleading. I like Evita’s post 5 foods that you may think are healthy, but they really aren’t – http://bit.ly/35ef9. For example orange juice is marketed as healthy, but in reality it’s mostly processed by our bodies as sugar.

What an excellent question to pose and get a discussion going on for more awareness and increased education.

I personally think – yes, and very much so.

I had the idea over the past few years, but it wasn’t really that it hit me when 2 things happened:
1. I picked up a jar of tomato/pasta sauce a couple of years ago and it had a health check/approval from the Heart and Stroke Foundation. When I read the label, it had way more sodium than is accepted as a healthy level for a healthy diet.

So I thought, okay so high sodium generally speaking = high blood pressure, which can result in various stages of heart disease and here is the heart and stroke foundation telling people to it eat as they approved it with their seal? Something didn’t add up for sure.

2. Then I think the winter of 2008 I watched a presentation by famous dietitian Jeff Novick on reading labels and especially focusing on whether “health food” is really healthy food. Well, let’s just say my eyes were opened so wide. I couldn’t believe all the tricks companies use to downplay or adjust the numbers to make them seem good!

And than I think of the most recent stuff like “Lucky Charms” and other similar cereals putting claims on the box that it boosts your child’s immune system. I mean I don’t know how far this is going to go, but it is getting a little ridiculous if you ask me. It is not hard to find today that it has been proven that sugar lowers immune function, so for them to say that a few added synthetic vitamins are going to help, is sort of laughable.

Anyway, I applaud your decision for reading your labels, and yes the back ones, not the front ones – that I always say to people is already a huge benefit in making healthy choices.

After that it depends on how far we want to take those “healthy choices”. I generally recommend to people to really decrease or completely eliminate any processed food. Some is obviously worse than others, but still.

So thank you for stirring this very important topic, and thank you also for linking to the article on the not so healthy foods.