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If You Eat Processed Food, Will You Too Have A Longer "Shelf Life"?Good question. Seems to work for processed food. Preservatives are chemicals. They do not act to enhance the body's function. Food contains nutrients that do enhance the body's function. So no, you will not be preserved like processed food with all these chemicals in your body. If a human made it, consider it processed. This includes your lunch meats, frozen dinners and dry packaged foods. Processing food has been with us a long time. I can remember my mother and grandmother canning peaches and pears. What is the problem? A fresh peach is always better than canned. Even when grandmother canned it. Because the fresh peach is alive with all its nutrients. What ever the method of canning, some nutrients are lost. This is a fact. Ah... But, those peaches sure were good in January. Yes, even organic frozen food is processed. Which is as close to what your grandmother would have done. Short of having grandmother still doing your canning. Oh... Would that ever be great! Grandma used simple ingredients to get the job done. This is different than the processed food that lines your local store's shelves. Pick up some of the common items like, ketchup, spaghetti sauce or cereal. These more than likely have high fructose corn syrup. Quite possibly the cause of the obesity epidemic we keep hearing about. Salad dressing, peanut butter and vegetable oils
have hydrogenated oils.
It seems even our fresh fruits and vegetables can't escape man's hand.
Enter irradiation.
Who would ever have conceived of radiating food as a good idea? I know how dependent you can get on the fast, frozen dinners. I had found myself there too. Here's what I did. Replace the regular with organic frozen meal. And then even cut back on this too. Use more fresh produce. A strange thing happened in my house. You know how kids hate eating vegetables at dinner? Well, I by chance, found out they all liked the vegetables raw. So, I would make up a veggie tray and let them at it. You can make fresh fruits and vegetables available to your kids and see what they pick. Then acknowledge their healthy food choice. You will be surprised at what change can occur with a small effort. Don't be discouraged if the kids don't go for the veggies right away. Be patient. Eat them yourself. Set an example. The human body wants to survive. Good healthy food without preservatives is food your body needs to function at it's best. Even kids will eat healthy in the long run if given the chance. When you do give your kids the chance to choose healthy in organics, your reward will be their health. What's more sensible than that? Return from Processed Food to Mom-Going-Organic-Sensibly Maybe you would like to stay at home and earn an income.
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