If it has more than five ingredients, you’re (probably) better off avoiding it.
If the ingredients list looks like a chemistry textbook threw up on it, you’re (probably) better off avoiding it.
These are not hard rules. Sit still long enough and I bet you could find some great product in your grocery cart that doesn’t set your Paleo sense a-tingling despite violating both of the ideas above. But they’re solid rules to remember, I think, each time you set foot in the store, and to hold nice and tight when you’re staring down at a long aisle of gleaming, colorful boxes.
We make eating healthy so difficult, don’t we?
But when you pull back from processed food and opt for the good stuff – y’know, the stuff that doesn’t need an ingredient list – you find, bite by bite, what all of those crash diets and fad programs don’t seem to want to admit.
Eating healthy is eating natural.
Sometimes, folks, it’s as easy as that.
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Very simple, short but to the point. I don’t understand why we complicate things, but we do. If we ate natural all of our troubles and even some illnesses would banish.
Sorry – meant vanish.
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