The Worst Food Gets a Little Better
You won’t find a photo for today’s post because we don’t keep the worst food in this house, except on rare occasions. It’s also because it’s a manufactured food, and I don’t want to pick on any one brand. If you haven’t guessed what the worst food is, I’ll tell you. It’s soda. Any kind of soda. Regular or diet. Empty calories. Artificial colors and sweeteners. Highly addictive. No nutrition. At all. Chemicals that are counter productive to the absorption of nutrients. If you don’t believe me, read this article I found at Beachbody.com that explains the evils of soda in detail.
So how can soda get a little better? Apparently some soft drink manufacturers are responding to growing consumer awareness of the evils of high fructose corn syrup, which in recent years has become the whipping boy of diet scientists as being one of the root causes of disease and obesity. Snapple, Pepsi, and Mountain Dew are all removing high fructose corn syrup, at least for a trial period, and replacing it with sugar.
Now I’m not saying that too much sugar is great for us, either. But at least it’s a natural product, and not designed to enter our blood streams faster than the speed of light. The calorie count for the soft drinks will be reduced slightly. And the taste will change to a fuller bodied flavor, according to Snapple. Snapple will be making the change permanent and the other companies, I suppose, will be waiting for consumer feedback before deciding to make permanent this change for the better.
And for the record, we consume soft drinks on occasion when we’re eating out or at a party. I don’t believe in rigid food rules, but it’s easier to stick with good intentions when the offender isn’t sitting in the fridge. And now that these companies have improved their formulas, they will become my soft drink of choice when we do choose to indulge.
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Funny, in my wildest imagination I never thought of soda as food.
Well, by the definition of something one ingests (non medicinal) it is.
“Well, by the definition of something one ingests (non medicinal) it is.”
So by your definition poison would be food because I don’t view poison as medicinal. lol