Last weekend, I went to PCC’s Healthy Living Fair. I’ve never seen such a wide array of organic lotions, teabags, bread, snacks and microwave dinners in my life. Not to mention meat substitutes, carb-free snacks and “In the Zone” diet foods.
About half of these products are good; you can’t fail with well-known brands such as Boca, whose meatless chicken tastes remarkably like real chicken. And Odwalla juice and bars, though ridiculously expensive, are delicious.
But the other half of these products taste absolutely Nasty, with a capital N. The idea of a carb-free waffle is just stupid. Carb-free chocolate tastes exactly like you’d expect it to taste. Don’t even get me started on “healthy” corndogs; I had to spit those disgusting things out.
Personally, if I were to buy organic, I’d do it because I morally disagreed with something, or because the organic product tasted better than the normal product. Otherwise, I wouldn’t spend money on food that tastes exactly the same – and in several cases, much worse – and costs double. The health benefits appear minimal, and I could get bigger benefits by eating healthy and exercising.
Some of the world’s populations with the greatest longevity don’t eat “organic,” they just eat well. On the flip side, some Americans who eat organic live unhealthy lifestyles. I know a girl who talks proudly of shopping at Whole Foods -- as if that implies being health-conscious -- but she’ll down a big box of Sugar Daddies in one sitting.
If you’re not concerned enough to take action on your health, then all the organic and vegetarian products in the world can’t help you.
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