The Coaching Pair“Today foods are processed in ways specifically designed to get us to buy and eat more by pushing our evolutionary buttons — our inborn preferences for sweetness and fat and salt.  These tastes are difficult to find in nature but cheap and easy for the food scientist to deploy, with the result that food processing induces us to consume much more of these rarities than is good for us.”  Michael Pollan

Where’s the PETA agent when you really need him (or her)?

But suddenly, the food he has eaten turns sour within him, a poisonous venom in his stomach.  (Job 20:14; NLT)

Monday, I wrote about a novel diet idea — eat food. The gist was to avoid the food wanna-bees in the center aisles of the super market and pretty much stick to the outside aisles where the food tends to be fresh and, well…food. The prepackaged manufactured stuff in the center aisles is largely someone’s chemistry experiment with you and I as the guinea pigs.

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