I was raised on 70’s nutrition, which means that 90% of the food I ate while growing up came from a box or a can. I don’t blame my mom… hell, everyone thought they were eating healthy in the 70s, didn’t they?

Here’s something that one may wanna think about next time they go to eat the starter soup…but Waiter, there’s a toxin in my soup! Take a look inside any can and you’ll see a thin plastic film separating your food from the metal. That’s where the BPA is coming from. Manufacturers have been lining cans with plastic since the 1950s to protect the food from botulism and other bacteria that can grow if the can is damaged or corroded, and there’s no doubt that lives have been saved.

Imagine putting sugar in the gas tank of your Ferrari (and this metaphor is about as literal as you can get) – Italian racecars (another appropriate metaphor) have very specific needs when it comes to creating compression within the engine. If you toss something gross in there, your plugs don’t fire correctly and your pistons get all gummed up.

You might get warning signs – in other words, your body will start to ping, not unlike a race car engine. Problem is that we tend to ignore that pinging until your manifold’s warped and you’ve tossed a rod through your engine block.

Ok, enough of the car talk, because I’m totally talking out of my ass at this point. Let’s just say that I blew a head gasket and need major remachining.

As a result of all of this medical drama, I had to take a long, hard look at what I was eating. Now, I rarely put anything in my body that isn’t in its almost completely natural state. No refined grains, so processed foods, no hydrogenated-reconstituted-whathaveyou. If it came from a lab, it sure as hell isn’t going down my gullet. Here is a medical report letter just to show how toxic our canned soup is… http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/20/2218.2.extract

I’m still working on the sugar thing, but that’s an entirely different post altogether.

The moral of the story (if I even have one at this point) is that we need to be much more conscious of what we put in our bodies. Just because it has a pretty label and a $4M marketing budget doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

It’s pretty simple: if a particular food wasn’t around in your great-grandma’s time, then don’t eat it. Make you own from scratch!