Challenge Day 4

Challenge 4:

I challenge you to know what you are eating.

Can you honestly say that you know what's in what you are eating?
Or better yet, what does it do to your body?
What does it mean when something says it's low fat, no fat, low sugar, sugar free, or any other adjective they print on the package?

Just because something advertises that it's better for you doesn't mean that it's good for you. Foods these days, including almost all processed foods, are filled with chemicals that are messing with your hormones and making you retain or gain body fat. These recently understood and nasty chemicals have been named obesogens.

They are found in plastics (i.e. the bisphenol A, a.k.a. BPA, water bottles that we've been told not to use), as well as pesticides used on produce, steroids and antibiotics that are fed or injected into the animals, and they occur naturally in soy.

Can you see how what you eat, even if you try to pick the healthier option, is affecting your body?

What do we do?!

Choose foods that are organic. Fruits and vegetables with eatable/thin skin can easily carry obesogens no matter how well you wash them. However, it's okay to consume those with thick skin such as bananas, that are not organically grown.
But even then I often wonder about the water that they use to irrigate the plants with. What was in the water before it got in the watermelon. You see what I'm saying?

Choose meats and poultry that are from grass fed animals . Cheese, milk, and eggs that are organic.

And if you are eating processed foods, avoid hydrogenated oils and syrups made from corn.

It's time to know what you are putting into your bodies, even if you choose to continue filling it with these obesogens, at least know what it's doing to you.

I challenge you.

Obesogen information from the book The New American Diet by Stephen Perrine