Whoever decided that good tasting food (like chocolate) would be bad for you, and that bad tasting foods (like broccoli) should be good for you really screwed up. I just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Usually mother nature is pretty smart when it comes to this kind of stuff. Don't you think, that evolution and natural selection would have kicked in somewhere down the road and reversed this little mistake. Just think of all the health care issues that would be resolved if broccoli tasted like chocolate, and chocolate tasted like broccoli.
Dietary Nirvana
Instead of a nation of overweight couch potatoes, we would all have the bodies of Jack LeLane and Madonna. Wow, now that's a scary sounding couple. We'd also be spending a whole lot less money on crazy weight loss fads, and bizarre exercise machines that look like they originated from torture chambers in medieval times. Hospitals wouldn't be overburdened, health care wouldn't be in such a crisis, and all my clothes would fit so much better. Think of all the research money that has been spent on curing diseases that really originated from bad eating habits. Maybe we should be diverting some of that money into fixing mother natures little food tasting mix up.
Taste Buds vs Food Genetics
The way I see it, there's one of two ways to approach this problem. Either we fix the food, or we fix the people. More specifically, the taste buds attached to those people. How hard can it be to trick a few tiny little defenseless taste buds? Scientists already understand how taste buds work. Just have them rewire some of those connections. Sure, some of the reasons you like or dislike certain foods have something to do with your cultural upbringing and personal experiences. But, I think, it would be great if there was just a little harmless pill we could swallow before every meal, that tricked our taste buds. Imagine, if instead of liver, onions, and carrots for dinner, your taste buds would be telling your brain that you were enjoying a delicious meal of lobster, chocolate cake, and ice cream. Who needs dessert after a meal like that. No thanks not me, I'm stuffed.
So, let's divert a little of that research Mr President and Prime Minister. In the long run we'd all be better off. Not to mention getting rid of all those Suzanne Sommers thigh master infomercials once and for all.
Organic fruit and veggies have a different taste, they taste more "real" ,then the veggies that aren't organic, they do not taste waxy and full of chemical aftertastes like some of the non-organic foods do. Plenty of cooks now only use organic food because of the taste differences in them. the food tastes better, incredibly so. Just two examples from my diet. Before going 'organic' I had had to give up pizza, really anything with tomato ketchup. I could not eat bananas, milk or ice cream, simply to cite a couple things. I would get heart burn, indigestion, and so on. I am eating organic bananas, no problems! We get raw milk so no more issues there, and can make our own ice cream, delicious! Chocolate tastes better, the cereal and breads have a more robust flavor. Now, we are sticklers and label readers, you need to be, there are some firms out there that are foxy. I typically do not purchase food from publicly traded corporations. ( Meaning the brand stuff stuff ) I stick with the small producers, and generally local. We also make many items people buy in stores. One other great thing about eating organically, you are essentially getting the nutrition your body needs out of the food(whole foods) so you eat less! What a great plus. Again, folk need to be careful, especially shopping at the Kroger, Farmer Jacks, where everbe selective, read labels, ask questions. At the moment 60% of the food at the greengrocer contains GMO's. The Yankee people have do what you're doing, study what you eat. You will be pleased you did. Trader Joe's says that their private label foods are all organic and non-gmo. Whole Foods only states that they "try" to hunt down gmo foods but they don't even keep their own smorgasboard freed from gmo and organicly produced. So I'm not sure how well they stick to their stated objectives.
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