I have to share the experience I had at SuperTarget the other day, where I couldn't help but notice what the the girl in front of me in the checkout line was buying. She looked to be in her mid-twenties and seemed fairly athletic. The items I noticed her buying were:
"wheat" bread (not whole wheat, but that stuff that's basically white bread)
Pop-tarts
iceberg lettuce
Crystal Light
Bud-Light
peanut butter
tortilla chips
What bothered me about her choices was that they really are a product of our society and it's messed-up priorities. There will be "health experts" out there who would applaud her for buying the Crystal Light because it is low-calorie, despite the fact that there are serious concerns about the effects sugar substitutes can have on our bodies (anything from headaches and stomach upset to leading to actually eating more sugar because your body is now primed for sweets). Strike One.
Next I thought about how the only item in that list with *any* nutritional value was the peanut butter and even that was highly processed Jif and not even the natural kind. Everything outside the lettuce and beer is highly processed, robbing whatever nutritional value might have originally been in the actual food (wheat, peanuts, corn) they started with. So what exactly is the point of eating "food" that isn't really nourishing your body? Strike Two.
Then it occurred to me that when that young lady inevitably becomes ill because she hasn't actually fed her body anything it needs to function properly, she will go to our "health care" system which will give her drugs which will mask her symptoms but not actually solve her underlying issues. Strike Three.
I think we're out...
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