Everyday Harmless Food

Good morning, its time for a healthy breakfast…don’t worry…you’re KIDS will eat it!  Or however that commercial went with the cereal.  Wasn’t it KIX or something?

Anyhow, a few more rules for food…once again, all info is found in Michael Pollan’s book, Food Rules.

1. Avoid cereals as breakfast, and ALWAYS avoid cereals that change the color of your milk.

We all had a favorite cereal, and always loved the sweet taste of the milk after turned to chocolate milk or some weird greenish color from the lucky charms.  Up until early 2009, I was a cereal at midnight type of guy.

I try to avoid ‘cereal meals’ completely now…and I still think oatmeal is a much better option if you need that much energy in one bowl.

2.  Avoid ‘poser” foods.  You may prefer to call them ‘food substitutes’ but it’s just another test tube experiment put into food like form.

Think..margarine, sweeteners, and egg substitutes.  It’s fake food.  I will allow you to research your favorite substitutes on your own time.

3.  Do NOT eat ‘As Seen on TV’ Foods.  In other words; foods that have their own commercials.

This ‘usually’ holds true for fitness items as well.  Anyways…the reason is simple.  Real food producers (farmers) do not have a budget to advertise.  There are a few exceptions such as the egg commercials, and other farmer union ones.  There aren’t many of these at all.

A few that come to mind…It aint eazy being cheezy. Cheetos.  Bet you can’t eat just one.  Also, the stupid oreo commercials.  Coke and Pepsi out the ying yang.  According to my TV, almost every breakfast cereal is good for you.  I think Taco Bell recently came out with a ‘diet menu’ and is now advertising it like crazy.  Hot chicks advertising chips, or burgers.  Fun loving, healthy looking, straight A student type kids- drinking all sorts of JUICES.  It’s colored sugar water, folks.  Read the damn ingredients.

Keep it real.

-Mike.

PS: Check out some of our favorite TV products…in sugar quantity at the link below.

http://www.sugarstacks.com/

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