Pay Attention; The Journey of Killer Food

Just as how you would like to wear the best clothes or shoes, live in a nice home and drive the best car, why don’t you aspire to eat the best food?

The BEST food may be relative to some, maybe the more it costs deems it better for others whereas it’s the nutritional quality that deems it best to me.

Aspiring to eat and actually eating the best food is a lot easier to achieve, and is a more controllable and instant medium than let’s say trying or saving to buy a Mercedes Benz, so why aren’t more people doing it? Priorities and personal gratification may be the reason. Why isn’t your health the number 1 priority though? Being in a hospital, taking unwarranted medication or being 6ft under will surely feel great whilst driving that AWEsome Mercedes that was priority number 1 huh.

Either way, I would like to encourage people to pay attention to what they are putting into their bodies. We are not immortal and must remove the ego of feeling like we will live forever never affected by any dire illness and understand that our bodies are fragile and are not machines so we must nurture it as best we can. The everlasting cliché stands strong in this blog, "we are what we eat." What do you think happens to food that we've placed into our mouth and sent on its way? Do you think it simply passes through the body without making even the slightest impact whatsoever, quite the contrary.

Many ailments we humans, yes humans, not glittery vampires, Hogwarts alumni, werewolves, Titans, Mount Olympus inhabitants, or aliens as I'm almost positive some are convinced they are, are caused by our nutrition or lack thereof. I'm scared of what is considered and sold conscience free as food nowadays and I'm convinced some of the most prominent guilty food corporations work in collaboration with drug and other 'health' care companies because that is where this...this polluted shit food is going to AND has sent some of us to. Not even dogs should be subjected to some of these items meant for "human" consumption.

Pay attention to the journey in which your food takes before you actually place it in your mouth. This is not a Disney movie where no one ever seems to die (only Mufasa and Bambi’s mother apparently, to forever scar children). However, the journey of killer food will make you ill or dead. This journey consists of pesticides, preservatives, hormones, other chemically enhanced additives, the containers you store or eat your food from, the food they feed to the 'soon to be on your plate" animals, and corporations 'dumbing' down the real meanings of some key ingredients they place in what they are serving up to you guilt free as food. A lot of which are carcinogenic.

Am I trying to or succeeding at being your party buzzkilington or that annoying and overwhelming nutritionist that you want to just strangle? No. I still consume quite a few questionable things, but now I pay more attention to my foods journey. From what they fed little miss piggy to the ingredients I seasoned her sweet ass with, to the leanest part of her sweet ass that I want, to the type of pot her sweet ass is cooked in or the Styrofoam container I would never eat out of.

I've become more responsible and aware of what I eat. Maybe it's because of personal experiences but I’ve always been this way and have just become more passionate about it now, especially because of seeing an increase of disease in the younger generation, corporations and even some farmers lacking moral fibre, and a complete disregard most of the human populous has taken towards responsible food consumption.

There are a few simple bits of advice I would like to share with those looking to be more responsible with the food they eat. I find them to be easy adjustments one can make. For the heath enthusiasts who have already found my blog not extreme and gut wrenching enough as they would like it to be and have furiously gone to a health blog while mumbling to themselves "why is she not TELLING people what to eat and how many times to chew?" the information I would like to share may just help you too.

I would never TELL anyone what to eat. It’s their choice and responsibility. I encourage moderation and happy thoughtful eaters. Adhering to the following advice may have come easier to me than others and we all know that only people who want to change can.

• After coming across this excellent observation I've discovered that there is indeed great truth to it. When shopping in the supermarket pay the most attention to its perimeter as opposed to its interior because the healthiest most nutrient rich and freshest food items tend to be there. The fruits, veggies, produce to name a few, unlike the preservative and additive riddled foods that are usually found within the middle aisles.

• Try and stay away from Styrofoam containers as much as you can ESPECIALLY re-heating in them. The heat when re-heating your food aids the chemicals used to make the Styrofoam in leeching onto your food. Avoid at all costs. (Re-heating in PLASTIC is a no-no as well but Styrofoam is worse)

• Be a label reading junkie whore. If you can’t pronounce most of the ingredients back away....FAR away. Sodium benzoate, sodium nitrate, monosodium glutamate (MSG), aspartame, potassium bromate, Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) to name a few. They are in many MANY of the foods we consume DAILY. These chemically enhance foods to last longer, replace natural ingredients, reduce bacterial growth etc etc etc. Do you think these products are simply excreted from our system, no, they are the last to leave the party, and they hang around. They react with the cells in our body. Scientists have actually injected lab rats with some when they WANT to give them cancer, now look at that shit and there are companies out there selling me that in MY food. I love food and I would appreciate if they could stop fucking with it. If they have to add so many chemicals to my food just to get it to my plate "fresh" after 3 weeks of shipping and handling, I don't want it. I rather have to run to the market every few days to get fresh food than to get that killer shit.

• Try and cook or learn to cook more, make the time, it’s worth it. You can control the ingredients being placed into your food and you’re the only human contact that food gets during preparation.  Someone else’s body bits are out of the question.  

• Do NOT buy non-stick Teflon lined pots and pans. At high temperatures toxins will be released into your food. It’s like a horror show. 

• Buy TRUE organic food as much as possible. It’s best for the health of your body. Aren't you worth it?

• Wash your produce as best you can, even if they claim to be pesticide free blah blah blah. Wash it. Pesticides aren't the only thing you should be concerned about in any case. Wash....it.

• I always suggest drinking more water, for obvious and cliché reasons. I'm like a broken record with that one.

• Yep....eat more fruits and veggies. For some this may cause a big sigh, but get creative with it. Make slushie drinks or add some to your usual diet if it didn't include it before. Let that piece of lettuce pose proudly on your plate with all the other items you plan to eat. 

• Eat as much alkaline as opposed to acidic foods as possible; this diet is a lil more scientific and harder to get used to. Research it and try it if you’d like. It helps to prevent disease and aids in the healthiest functioning of the body (for my health extremists).

This blog post was so damn long eh? I can just imagine you reading it....can you imagine me writing it? WHEW! But I certainly enjoyed evangelizing the holy word of responsible eating according to the book of Ravn to you :)