Hi,

This week and going into next I will be posting about junk food.  today’s post will specifically be about junk food advertising.

The overall goal is to show you how pervasive the junk food industry is and how it affects your whole life.

Each post will be shorter than my usual posts – hope you don’t maind that part:-)

Anyhow, here goes with the first one.

We all eat a little bit of junk food.  Heck, I have been known to have a pizza and beer a few times a year.

I really like salsa and chips also.  Throw in some ice cream – especially in the summer time and I am a happy camper. 

Yet, here I am telling everyone to eat healthier. 

Well, I also eat pretty healthy 90-95% of the time.  I eat lots of fruit and vegetables, both raw and cooked. 

I drink very little of the sugar drinks and eat very little of any kind of desserts. 

I get plenty of protein from meats, diary products and protein powders. 

But, this is a decision I have made as to what is best for me. 

You get to make the same decision. 

There is a problem though.  I do a lot of research on diets, nutrition, health and fitness. 

A lot of people don’t.  So they are left to information they see or hear about. 

Most of this information is really advertising. 

It is estimated that over $10 billion a year is spent on advertising junk food. 

1986 statistics showed that McDonald’s by itself spent $592 million. 

Now as much as McDonald’s might try and say that they have nutritious meals and drinks, they don’t. 

The same can be said for just about any food you can find outside of the grocery store.  And, for that matter, even most food in the grocery store. 

At least in the grocery store you can find some good foods. 
Look, it is hard to eat healthy.  You have to make the effort. 

If you do make the effort, you will find you feel better, you will have more energy, you will be more alert and you might just see some of your muscles as the fat drops off. 

If you have children, it is even harder to make the effort. Most of that $10 billion a year spent on junk food advertising is spent on kids. 

Start the kids out early on a junk food diet and they will never know how good they might feel with real food. 

I’ll have a few more posts on the junk food industry and things they don’t want you to know in the next few posts. 

So stay tuned and you might just become so disgusted that you will make that effort to start eating healthier and feeling better. 

Thanks,

Mike Val

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