Back to the Future for Real
Hello,
I’m FoodSpook. I was a little boy in the early 1950′s. Both of my parents came out West from the South during WWII to build warships in high paying shipyards in the Bay Area. I was the oldest child and a boy. I remember from way back my Daddy used to tell me “boy, get an education, its the key to the world”. Those words are etched into my forehead and brain forever. By the way, I did go to college and graduated in Business.
My father and mother always told us on occasion about putting too much sugar in our oatmeal or cold cereal. My two younger sisters and I were always told about the dangers of “sugar diabetes”. We were young. We still ate a lot of sugar, especially when we made ‘Kool Aid’. This was one one the first fast foods to hit the neighborhood. All you needed was a pound of sugar, a half gallon pitcher of cold water and a five cent packet of concentrated artificial flavoring such as grape or cherry and you had yourself a liquid treat. That was in 1952. The same ‘Kool Aid’ is on the market shelves today. All you need to add is sugar and water. I was lucky. When I was a child, we played outside everyday and many times in the rain. We children got a LOT of exercise. Type 2 Diabetes can’t stand for you to exercise. Your body burns up too much glucose (blood sugars) and Diabetes can’t get a hold of your body. You kids today have to take time away from your laptops and cell phones and get outside and play, forever! Not just on Saturdays for soccer, but everyday if possible.
Our food industry advertises synthetic and man made food products as kid friendly. This is a outright LIE! I went to the grocery store last week and my grandaughter ask me to pick up a container of cranberry-grape juice. The only cranberry -grape juice was not juice at all, it was a juice “cocktail”. Kids, whenever you see the word “cocktail” on a juice container, leave it. Its only artificial flavoring and sugar. The label will say something like 14 to 18 percent real fruit juice. Even if that is true, that means the container holds 86 t0 82 percent sugar and flavored water. Remember what I said about ‘Kool Aid’ in the 1950′s? The products on the grocery shelves today are ‘Kool Aid’ on Steroids. In the past 60 years, the same nutritional game is being run on the American public and by many of the same companies.
If you are a young person, there is no way you can relate to what these food companies have done in the past. You must understand what they are doing to us right now. Type 2 diabetes is avoidable and in many cases reversable. It is not a fluke that YOUR generation is suffering from the greatest number of children becoming type 2 Diabetics ever in our history. I hope you will understand that you have corporations that are buying ad space on TV and advertising products that are carrying high percentages of disguised sugars that can cause you to become obese which can lead to Diabetes.
WE adults are older and have had our chance to figure out what’s happening to us. The majority of us have not worked this out. You kids are young and HAVE to do battle with a food system that has been fooling the America public way before you were born. This epidemic of type 2 Diabetes is very related to what we eat . In this 21st Century, why are so many children developing type 2 diabetes? There is a common denominator, the food you are fed. Kids, if your parents are unaware of how they are being manipulated by food companies and fast food restaurants, then you must SCHOOL them. Its your life.
The same ‘Kool Aid’ that I fixed as a child in the 1950′s is still being sold today. People were getting Diabetes then and they are getting it now, but the numbers are staggering. An estimated 60 million people in the United States have Diabetes. That’s about one out of five U.S. citizens. The use of corn based sugars in foods (high fructose corn syrup) has exploded in the past 30 years. Guess what? So has the number of children diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes. Folks, this is no coincidence! What saw way back in the 1950′s was just the previews of what is happening today. We must become aware of what this food industry is doing to us.
I don’t blame the food industry for making a buck. I’m trying to tell people that many of these companies are more that willing to sell you products taht can destroy your health or even you life. Do not put your trust in them. We must be vigilant.
T. jeffery
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