Shit for brains -- why there are so many dumb Americans

[betsuni]

15. I look and feel different depending on what I eat.

If I fall off the wagon and start eating processed food full of chemicals and sodium and sugar, I'm tired and irritable, bloated, get rashes and itchiness, indigestion. But it's addictive! Most other people probably don't have such obvious symptoms as I do and wouldn't notice how it affects them over time. Horrifying that children grow up eating processed food all the time.

Couple of years ago I saw a documentary about childhood obesity. Parents were overweight but not seriously. Child was. A chef taught them how to shop and cook homemade food. After a short time the parents said they felt so much better, more energy. Children lost weight. But then at the end there was a follow up a year later and almost all the children had gained the weight back. Tragic.