These Substances Should Come With A Health Warning
The following link will take you to a site that will show you
the "nutritional" information of most of the items available in the
most popular fast food chains.
http://www.chowbaby.com/10_2000/fastfood/fast_food_nutrition.asp
In addition to the vegetarians and those who keep kosher who were
misled by the McDonald's Corp. that did fry its freedom fries, sic.,
in animal fat despite their advertisement that they fry them in 100%
veg oil, there are numerous health hazards in eating those food that
the public-at-large, certainly young children, are truly unaware of.
IMO, we must recognize that foods, like drink and drugs, are
substances that must be used in accordance with proper
administration, lest they become both addictive and deleterious to
the body.
While foods, if wisely and properly ingested, are one of our greatest
allies in the war against disease, foods are mind altering and mood
altering because they are biochemistry altering. Foods also alter our
spiritual state, for better or for worse depending upon how we relate
to them and if we respect their inherent powers. They are potentially
addictive, potentially destructive substances if abused.
Therefore, I recommend that the very same measure that are taken to
regulate the abuse of substances already recognized to be potentially
harmful also be applied to foods in ways that are appropriate to
foods.
For starters: I think that posters depicting health guidelines for
men, women and children should be posted in every establishment that
sells food. Fruits, nuts, legumes, vegetables and grains rich in
natural complex carbohydrates should be sold with recommendations of
how many servings should be had per day. Processed foods (and this
includes homogenized and pasteurized milk and its products and meat
products) sodas and "junk" should have health warnings written
clearly on the package, just as cigarettes do. People should be
educated about the egg and fish industry and about the nutritional
values of these foods such that they can make a reasoned decision as
to whether or not to eat these foods or rely on purely vegetarian
sources of nutrition.
Doreen
posted by Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat @ 10:01 AM
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