ChangeThis - Kill Your Children
Monday, August 16, 2004
Seth Godin started a new project, ChangeThis. One of the first manifestos is titled, Kill Your Children. To sum it up the author discusses how sugar-rich beverages cause our children to become obese. Although beverages do contribute, it is far from the only contributor. High Fructose Corn Syrup is the true culprit. It not only lives in just about every drink out there, it is in just about everything you eat. It is in frozen foods to prevent freezer burn. It is in bread to keep it brown and soft. It is in ketchup. It is in your ?healthy yogurt?. Read the labels and you cannot get away from it.
In our hurry up society and busy lives it is hard to avoid these foods because they are quick and easy. There are some alternative choices out there, they do however cost a little more. In the end the best advice I have ever heard was to go by a cookbook from the 50?s and use the ingredients they list.
P.S. Beware of Partially Hydrogenated Oils, trans fatty acids.