| Feeling A Little Off After You Eat? As I watched Bill Maher's interview on Larry King Live I noticed that he said he never shopped at the grocery store. Well, I thought he can afford not to. Heck, he probably just has everything delivered so no need to shop! But still like radar I honed in on how healthy he looked. A nagging feeling about feeling just a little sick after I ate one of those T.V. Dinners stayed with me. And how about all the gas, bloating, and feeling like my stomach was about to explode when I ate well anything with carbohydrates. But then I realized I'd been eating carbohydrates out of a box. I looked again at Bill Maher. He looked healthier than I felt. So, reluctantly, I decided to go downstairs and look at some labels on all those boxes I'd bought. I looked at my T.V. dinners first. Wow. There was way more than the four ingredients I saw in the dinner. Upon looking closer I noticed it had soybean products and corn syrup. Why did I have corn syrup and soybeans in my dinner? Then I looked closer and saw a bunch of chemicals I did not recognize. Ugh! So I started looking through my cupboards. Nearly every packaged box from cake mix to pancake mix to T.V. dinners to cheesecake to chips and dip to cerel to rice to syrup to mayo to salad dressing to bread to margarine to honey had soybean products (mostly oil) and corn syrup and lots of chemicals! No wonder I felt sick a lot of the time. My body was loaded down with crap. As I realized how much soybean oil and corn syrup I was unknowingly consuming, I felt a little queasy just thinking about it. So, right then there I vowed to replace all the garbage in my house with pure ingredients. Of course, I coudn't do it all at once, but I vowed once I used up a product, I would replace it with a pure ingredient. I made my first ever cheesecake without grahm crackers which is loaded down with soybean oil and corn syrup. I checked the backs of every ingredient I used, buying the most pure I could find. When I tried some of my cheese cake, I noticed immediately that my body didn't feel odd and rebel. I actually felt good compared to eating the packaged stuff. Wow, pretty convincing. So, I did the same thing with rice. I threw out the packaged stuff, made some pure rice, put some Mrs. Dash (no msg) on for seasoning, a bit of cheese on top and I had a tasty rice dish. And my stomach didn't feel like it was an atom bomb about to explode. I discovered that cool whip is loaded with soybean oil and corn syrup as well. So I bought whip creme and half and half. But when I read the backs I discovered much to my amazement that there were additives in my half and half and whipping creme! So back I went, this time more carefully checking the labels. I did find a brand with no additives, Clover brand half and half and whipping creme. No Additives! Thank goodness. And yes when I tried it, it was wonderful. So what I discovered is that nearly everthing in a box or package has soybean oil, or a soybean product and corn syrup! Plus lots of other chemicals. So consumer beware if you are feeling a little off after you eat, check out what you are eating! I am changing over to pure ingredients. And I am starting to feel a lot better. Warm regards, Susan Farmer |
| Feeling A Little Off After You Eat? As I watched Bill Maher's interview on Larry King Live I noticed that he said he never shopped at the grocery store. Well, I thought he can afford not to. Heck, he probably just has everything delivered so no need to shop! But still like radar I honed in on how healthy he looked. A nagging feeling about feeling just a little sick after I ate one of those T.V. Dinners stayed with me. And how about all the gas, bloating, and feeling like my stomach was about to explode when I ate well anything with carbohydrates. But then I realized I'd been eating carbohydrates out of a box. I looked again at Bill Maher. He looked healthier than I felt. So, reluctantly, I decided to go downstairs and look at some labels on all those boxes I'd bought. I looked at my T.V. dinners first. Wow. There was way more than the four ingredients I saw in the dinner. Upon looking closer I noticed it had soybean products and corn syrup. Why did I have corn syrup and soybeans in my dinner? Then I looked closer and saw a bunch of chemicals I did not recognize. Ugh! So I started looking through my cupboards. Nearly every packaged box from cake mix to pancake mix to T.V. dinners to cheesecake to chips and dip to cerel to rice to syrup to mayo to salad dressing to bread to margarine to honey had soybean products (mostly oil) and corn syrup and lots of chemicals! No wonder I felt sick a lot of the time. My body was loaded down with crap. As I realized how much soybean oil and corn syrup I was unknowingly consuming, I felt a little queasy just thinking about it. So, right then there I vowed to replace all the garbage in my house with pure ingredients. Of course, I coudn't do it all at once, but I vowed once I used up a product, I would replace it with a pure ingredient. I made my first ever cheesecake without grahm crackers which is loaded down with soybean oil and corn syrup. I checked the backs of every ingredient I used, buying the most pure I could find. When I tried some of my cheese cake, I noticed immediately that my body didn't feel odd and rebel. I actually felt good compared to eating the packaged stuff. Wow, pretty convincing. So, I did the same thing with rice. I threw out the packaged stuff, made some pure rice, put some Mrs. Dash (no msg) on for seasoning, a bit of cheese on top and I had a tasty rice dish. And my stomach didn't feel like it was an atom bomb about to explode. I discovered that cool whip is loaded with soybean oil and corn syrup as well. So I bought whip creme and half and half. But when I read the backs I discovered much to my amazement that there were additives in my half and half and whipping creme! So back I went, this time more carefully checking the labels. I did find a brand with no additives, Clover brand half and half and whipping creme. No Additives! Thank goodness. And yes when I tried it, it was wonderful. So what I discovered is that nearly everthing in a box or package has soybean oil, or a soybean product and corn syrup! Plus lots of other chemicals. So consumer beware if you are feeling a little off after you eat, check out what you are eating! I am changing over to pure ingredients. And I am starting to feel a lot better. Warm regards, Susan Farmer |