Nutrition - Bad and Good: Brief List

 

 DQ - while others were posing for a photo, I struck.

Bad Nutrition Metrics Can Be Photographed at WalMart, 

Any Major Grocery Store, Fast Food, Or Delivery

"The perfect commodity - make them for pennies, sell them for dollars, and they are addicting." Donuts and ice cream, not to mention cigarettes. 

1. All milk products are loaded with fat, and some (like cheese) also with salt. That includes cottage cheese, yogurt of all kinds, "skim milk." Ice cream and DQ are high in fat and sugar. 
2. Breads and rolls are mostly white flour, which like white rice and sugar, offer quick energy, quick hunger, and quick fast.
3. The stores do their best to promote impulse items facing them - candies, diet candies, chocolates, cheap chocolates, sugar-based candies and caramels, chips of every flavor with tons of salt - white flour - and fat.
4. The grocery workers laugh at families who buy breakfast cereal, colorful and sweet, loaded with white flour, enchanting with the artwork grabbing the attention of the kids riding first class in the cart. New baby mothers buy little sweet puff balls and other mouth opiates. French fries are ideal in the car, with the trifecta of potatoes, fat, and salt, matching the muffins and sandwiches. 
5. The grocery store equation adds so much more with aisles packed with soft drinks and "diet" soft drinks of all types, a magnificent display, including salty fizzy water, very much like the colas but without taste.
6. The chips aisle is also a display of our contempt for the fatty treats, the salty treats, and the fatty salty treats cooked in grease - or baked - so fulfilling every few hours.
7. The pharmacy - a big money-maker - treats symptoms, seldom the disorder. They like to sell expensive protein and milk products with questionable results.
8. Meat is essential, but it can be overdone in various ways. 

The Edible Pharmacy - 

Greens, Beans, Mushrooms, Vegetables, Fruit, Nuts, Seeds

Produce is necessarily healthy, and the frozen greens, beans, and fruit are exception in nutritional value.

• The smallest part of a grocery store, missing at fast food places, bakeries, and candy stores, is nutrition.
• Chopped frozen greens are incredibly powerful in reducing hunger, slowing down digestion with fiber, and unleashing a powerful blend (varying) of nutritional benefits. Popular chopped frozen greens are: spinach, turnip greens, kale, and collards. They are quadruplets with four different blends of nutrition. 
• People laugh about beans, even though the great orator Cicero was named Chick Pea in Latin. Beans are packed with protein, fiber, and a variety of nutrition. Some of my favorites are chick peas, lima beans, and kidney beans. They are low fat (unless bacon is added) and low salt (watch the labels).
• Lunch for Charlie Sue and me - greens, chick peas, walnuts, lima beans, flax seed, blue berries, onions and peppers, and sliced sausage. Charlie Sue only eats the sausage.
• In produce I buy apples, bananas, blue berries, oranges, pears, pineapples - not all at the same time. I aim at 4 to 6 fresh fruits a day.
• Walnuts are the inexpensive statins I use (no prescription required), and I have some ground flax seed each lunch.
• Dr. Joel Fuhrman's works have encouraged me to have daily doses of greens, beans, fruits, nuts, and seeds. I also have mushrooms for each meal.

 Many roses grow hips, which are fruiting pods filled with Vitamin C.