Factory Food and breakfast cereals
More and more food is being made in factories using intensely processed ingredients. This is a problem for our health.
The food industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is a business. It is not a charity. It is not a public service. So it should come as no surprise that profit comes before health.
My earliest memory of food is from a packet. Corn flakes were what you reached for as a ‘healthy snack’ and today many still do the same. The array of breakfast cereals is vast and we are all bombarded with advertising suggesting that these products are ‘part of a healthy diet’.
In my opinion they are not. As a child I must have eat a lot of high sugar breakfast cereals, as everyone did. But the cost of spiking your blood sugar every day and first thing in the morning I now know to be a bad thing.
Breakfast cereals are just one of many examples of highly processed foods.
The effect of even unsweetened breakfast cereals on your blood sugar is to spike your blood sugar, simply because the ‘food’ is so refined, so far removed from the raw ingredients from which they came, that they are digested rapidly to produce glucose.
Having fought to reduce my glucose levels to be now something considered normal, I cannot think of a worse way to start your day than to eat a bowl of corn flakes.
And yet for years and years it was to me a staple.
Now, no more and never again.
#fatman