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What does real food look like to you? On a recent road trip, I stopped at the store a bought some car snacks. A lemon vitamin water and a pack of corn nuts. As someone who tries to eat healthy, this has always seemed like a decent snack. Sure it\u2019s not organic veggie snacks, but it\u2019s just baked corn and water with added vitamins right? Until reading Michael Pollan\u2019s book, issues like preservatives and added nutrients and vitamin supplements was never something I considered having harmful effects. Sure, the western diet of high sugar cookies and breads and high fat foods like meat and cheese was unhealthy but I was fooled by the many other seemingly harmless foods that are filling our supermarkets and kitchens. And cars for that matter. Although this issue of sneaky nonfoods taking over brings every purchase, snack and meal into question there is a simple filter that can be used to help us buy healthy foods. Ask yourself is this a food that has been unaltered, or nearly unaltered from what we as humans would have historically eaten? This means, fruit and vegetables that are fresh and close to their source, it means meats that are healthy and free to range on good food sources. It doesn\u2019t mean corn nuts that have 17 ingredients and a long shelf life, or a sweet artificially flavored drink that has some vitamins added in to help the product sell better.<\/p>\n
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