How Does Your Food Become Junk Food?

August 9, 2010 admin 3 comments

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Hi,

Let’s look at an apple. An apple is a nutrionists best friend. It has a great reputation.

Remember the motto, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”?

There is a lot of truth to that.

Apples have a lot of nutrients, anti-oxidants and fiber. If you eat an apple every day for a snack it will do wonders for your health. This is assuming you don’t counter it with 3 bags of potato chips:-)

Now you might think that applesauce would be just as good as apples. Not so.

The processing of the apple into applesauce takes out most of the nutrients and fiber in the apple.

And worse, it is not as filling. So your body wants to eat more of it to make up for not getting as many nutrients.

Even worse than that is the fact that not only is the applesauce robbed of its nutrients, but sugar and other sweeteners are added. This increases the number of calories, yet gives no added benefit from a nutrional point of view.

Take this a step further and make apple juice. Now there are basically no nutrients, no anti-oxidants and no fiber. But, there are a lot more sugars and sweeteners and a ton more calories.

You can even go further and make apple flavored fruit beverages. These are basically sugar flavored drinks.
Some of these beverages are called sports drinks and vitamin waters. This sounds much better to the public and makes a ton of money.

Who ever thought of the idea that a simple apple – and you can substitute almost any fruit or vegetable – that is so healthy for you could be turned into a flavored sugar water that costs almost nothing to make and has almost zero nutritional value.

This is really a genius idea from the point of view of making money.

It is a really evil idea from the point of view of improving your health.

Thanks,

Mike Val