My place of employment has implemented a variety of health related programs this year that are designed to put money into your health fund to help defray costs for medical coverage if you take advantage of them. One of the things they are doing is helping one eat properly. I made an appointment with the nutritionist, but her calendar is very full and my appointment isn’t until the end of this month. Last month they brought in Dr. Will Clower , author of the book The French Don’t’ Diet Plan. I just started reading it a few days ago and it is very refreshing.
For years I have been battling my weight which has slowly become much harder to lose. Things are really different now than they were in college. I remember crash dieting for a dance eating only lettuce and water for 2 weeks and losing 10 pounds to fit into the most amazing dress I had back then. Now I get physically ill if I eat that way, not to mention extremely cranky and ready to bite someone’s head off if they approach within 10 feet. At any rate, dieting now is a challenge for me. Furthermore, the more I have learned about the foods we eat these days, the more convinced I am that all the stuff they put in the food you buy in the grocery store is design to kill you. Dr. Clower confirmed that assumption. According to him high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is practically the invention of the devil and the number one cause for weight gain in America. Read the labels and you can’t get anything in a bottle, can, or box without ingredients that will make your eyes swim trying to pronounce it. His favorite saying in the book is “if it doesn’t grow from the ground or have a mommy and daddy, you should not eat it.”
So long story short, I am fully subscribing to ridding my life of processed foods, HFCS, and all the crap that companies use to manufacture our food; it’s fresh or not for me from now on. Hopefully if his theories are right my health, weight, and disposition, should be drastically improved in no time.
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