Food, food, glorious food

Although I've said - and will say again and again - that you don't need to cut out any foods, just eat smaller portions - that isn't exactly true.

There are some things you just shouldn't eat, some things you just shouldnt' drink.

Fruit rollups, for example. I dont think adults eat this stuff, it's mostly a kid's snack - but they're all sugar and they're all ridiculous. Give your kid an actual apple, orange or other fruit, not this processed garbage.

The same goes for juice boxes. They are nothing but sugar. If you want your kid to drink juice - give them real juice, with no extra sugar. Orange juice, or better still, grape juice. Start them young, before they acquire a sugar tooth, and they'll love it as they grow older.

And you should wean yourself off pop and on to this type of juice, too. OF course - diet pop is a no no. Drink real pop if you're going to drink pop. (There's been a few studies that say that diet pop is bad for you, the artificial sweetener is, well...artifial!)

Then there's your cookies. Fresh baked cookies come out of the oven nice and soft...and if they last more than a day they'll become a bit crunchy. (But still delicious.)

But store bought cookies are already crunchy. If you buy "soft" cookies, be aware that there's some kind of chemical in them to make them soft, and the less chemicals you consume, the better! If you want soft cookies - and hwo doesn't - make fresh baked ones.

Do pay attention to the labels on the food you buy. Not necessarily for the amount of calories they contain - although you should pay a bit of attention to them - but to the amount of chemicals in them.

In future posts I'll dissect the chemicals that are standard in processed food. Why are they in our food and what do they do?