Is
your food and drinks sending you down rabbit holes?
Did
you ever notice life was like an Alice n Wonderland story? Pretty
packages on our foods and drinks that basically say eat me or drink
me! While they send you down a rabbit hole craving more? Maybe the
white bunny stands for sugar. And the world is constantly chasing it.
The bunny keeps running because we newer seem to satisfy the sugar or
food cravings.
Since
as far back as I could remember as a child I was given fast food.
Once I lived on my own when I was 19 I started to try to eat
healthier and cut out fast foods. I noticed when I went back to fast
foods I would get sick, throw up or I was in pain.
So
I cut out fast foods out of my life and only a couple times a year
going somewhere like KFC because I don’t get sick from their
food. When I cut out fast foods, I thought I was healthy. However
processed food is a whole other animal entirely! Did you know alcohol
is considered an ultra processed food? Have you ever wondered what
was in the pretty packaging or cocktails that people drink? Did you
know that it’s processed by fermenting or distilling grains? Or
the body thinks it’s a toxin and tries to process it and how
hard your body works to achieve this goal? I have been sober for 10
years now because of how sick it was making me. Did you know the FDA
has limited jurisdiction over what they can regulate in alcohol. So
no one has absolutely no idea what they are drinking. Some people may
blame their food for how they are feeling. They don’t want to
stop and consider it could be the combination of food and alcohol.
We
live in a fast paced society run by pretty slogans and nicely crafted
packages. Everything is fake. Processed food is not real. When I
stopped eating fast foods, I thought I was healthy. However I still
had chocolate at times. Chocolate is not only processed it can
contain toxins. They contain heavy metals and leads. I stopped eating
chocolate a few years ago. However I’m just finding this out
now about chocolate. The toxins are absorbed from the cacao tree. And
people try to promote that like it’s the new healthy thing to
eat straightening cacao. If you started to wake up and look into what
you’re eating, would you change anything? Or would you say make
the excuse that most Americans make and say well everything is bad
for you? But that’s a lie. Processed food and alcohol is
killing people. Sometimes in order to change we need our bodies to
react in order for this change to happen.
It’s
sad that pizza is processed because I always loved pizza. That is the
one thing that I didn’t cut out until recently. Processed foods
started making me sick. That is the reason I’m writing this.
Pizza was my friend since I was a child. To part with a friend that
you have known for so long is not easy but when you start getting
physically ill, something has to change. It’s not just pizza,
it’s popcorn, chips, even tacos now make me sick. It’s
more recently that Its become worse. It makes you wonder are they
putting something extra in our foods? It’s not just me I’ve
spoken to others about this that getting sick from processed foods as
well.
If
you’re careful with what you put on your skin and body, what
about your food? And your drink? Maybe this is something we should
all be doing before it’s too late and your body fights back and
you become ill.It’s not just stomach aches and throwing up that
you have to worry about its diseases and addictions as well. Is all
of this worth it?
We
leave in non achievable society and no matter how fast you run after
that bunny your not going to catch it. No matter how fast and long
you run on that hamster wheel you’re not going to catch up.
Society makes it impossible I think for a reason. Who made up the 8
hour work days and high taxes etc. they do this to control and
confine people and invented fast foods and they put so many
additional ingredients that we have no idea about in our foods and
drinks. Our long work days make us tired so we are not so aware of
what’s in our foods. We don’t always have the time to
stop and think or look at what we’re consuming. We are always
running. I think now more than ever we have to invest in ourselves.
In our health and well being. Don’t wait until it’s to
late where your in pain, or have a disease or issues with your blood
pressure . I’ve only brushed upon this subject of processed
foods on your body. Did you know they have an effect on your mind as
well? It’s also the cause of anxiety and depression. Caffeine
actually disrupts your circadian rhythm. It changes your core
temperature, it raises it. It blocks Adenosine. It makes you feel
tired. It makes you ungrounded and you appear crazy at times. I’ve
met people that when they drink coffee they talk so fast that I can’t
understand them and it’s scary. I will never forget the time I
went to Starbucks and had a caffeine overdose. I ordered a decaf
drink. I don’t drink coffee always hated the taste but flavored
drinks that were decaf I would have sometimes. Well I went to
Starbucks and ordered a decaf drink just one drink. Not long after I
started talking fast and feeling jittery. I felt like I was shaking.
I drove home and I noticed I was sweating and then I felt like I was
hallucinating. At this point my heart was racing. I started to drink
a lot of water. Literally I took a jug of water and kept drinking to
flush my system. I then kept jumping in the shower because I was
sweating and heating up. I felt like I was drugged. I called my
doctor the next day and they told me I experienced a caffeine
overdose. I said my god I had one drink that was supposed to be a
decaf drink. Do you know the caffeine they put in their drinks is
anywhere from 75-400 mg? That’s insane. I ordered a decaf
Carmel macchiato. That has between 150- 220 mg of caffeine. Or
whatever they decide to put in. We don’t pay attention to that
either. Well we can’t really see what they are doing behind the
counter. They can mix your drink up with someone else’s or they
could be in a hurry and add too much caffeine.
I
wrote this to make more awareness to these topics. I feel most people
laugh things off until they become sick. Then things are not so funny
anymore. I know this from experience.
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