I recently watched the film documentary “Hungry for Change” and thought to myself that this is something everyone should see. It exposes the food industry and the things you should know about what you’re putting into your body and how it can affect overall health. It also talks about the flip side to that and what things you can choose to do that will have a positive effect. The following are the points of the film that really stood out to me.
We as a people are programmed to put on fat in order to live through famine. Years ago, when we were hunter/ gatherers, our foods were very high in nutrition and low in calories. Nowadays, without famine, out foods have become low in nutrition and high in calories. Our population are overfed yet starving to death because we don’t get enough nutrients.
The film compares the smoking industry and the food industry. Cigarette companies knowingly added more nicotine to cigarettes to make them more addictive, and this is proven. This is very similar to the way our food is engineered to be addictive. MSG, monosodium glutamate, is proved to cause obesity in mice. Do a Google search for this phrase and you can read the results yourself. Mice are naturally not fat, but scientists needed fat mice in order to study obesity. So to get them, they started giving the mice MSG.
Another food preservative, aspertame, when combined with caffeine is not only addictive, but kills brain cells. Aspertame causes famaldehyde build-up and brain cognition problems, frontal lobe inflammation, headaches, seizures, and can also lead to various types of cancers.
This film is so informative that I decided to divide this into a series to keep the posts shorter and digestible. My next post will begin with the FDA and I guarantee you’ll probably be surprised at what you discover. So check back for part 2.
Your friendly health & fitness expert,
Melissa
OptimumCondition.com
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