| Sometimes I wonder why I keep reading up on healthy | | | | they were thoroughly washed since harmful toxins and |
| ways to cook and eat. Every time I do I find something | | | | pesticides could be clinging to them. I had already been |
| else that I'm doing wrong and it's usually bad enough to | | | | doing this, since I had no confidence that the stores |
| make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. The | | | | were washing all the dirt off of them. |
| discoveries that I made today are no different. | | | | Let's not even talk about how many other people |
| I found out that it's dangerous to use plastic to cover | | | | might have handled them before they came home |
| the food while you heat it up in the microwave | | | | with me. The mistake I've been making is by cooking |
| because it's been shown to cause cancer. I also found | | | | them so thoroughly. Research has found that heat |
| out that I shouldn't be freezing bottles of water before | | | | hurts the molecular structure of the vegetables, making |
| I drink them. I should have known, since one of my | | | | them less healthy for you. |
| favorite things is icy cold water and I like to freeze the | | | | I won't pretend not to know that cooking vegetables |
| bottles and drink them as the water melts. | | | | reduces the vitamins and minerals in them. What I didn't |
| I'm beginning to believe that scientists have found my | | | | know and was horrified to learn was that it actually |
| list of favorite foods and are hard at work to ruin it for | | | | changes the molecular structure into a toxin that |
| me. If it were not for trying to make sure my kids are | | | | actually attacks our systems. Go figure. Here I am, |
| fed in a healthy way, I'd stop my research and just eat | | | | thinking I'm feeding my family a healthy diet and instead |
| what I wanted to. Unfortunately I have a duty to them, | | | | I find out that I'm feeding them food that is not only not |
| so I read on. | | | | contributing to their health, but harming it as well. |
| Another thing I read about is the benefits of raw foods. | | | | Who would have thought that? Well, at least now that |
| I guess you're wondering why that should upset me. It | | | | I'm informed I can be more careful about how I |
| upsets me because I always thought that if there was | | | | prepare foods. Maybe I should just serve salads and |
| one thing I was doing right, it was the way I handled | | | | ice cream. Salads have raw, healthy vegetables and |
| fresh fruits and vegetables. We've all heard the | | | | ice cream is a dairy product and dairy contains nice, |
| warnings of making sure that before consuming them, | | | | healthy calcium, right? Works for me. |