You and I are part of the food chain

In all of my posts I write about eating healthy and what that means but the best way to sum up how to eat is, realize we are part of the food chain and that we need to eat the very same biochemicals of which we are inherently composed.  We are made up of the same elements as those in plants and animals; oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon.  We are not made up of Caramel color, BHT, and diacetyl tartaric acid just to name a few. 
There are 17,000 items in you average grocery store and most of them are food-like substances. Think about  the food chain next time you are at the grocery store. What if we fed the animals food-like substances and nourished the soil with the chemicals in many of the items in the grocery store?  Would we want to put those into our body? If we eat chemicals they are part of the food chain and any ingested chemicals that are not made in the body damage the body.  Chemicals and man made foods can actually damage and change the cells in the body which not only age us faster, they can affect mood, impact behavior, and have affect quality of life.  In the book Food and Behavior by Barbara Reed Stitt she examines how many of criminal offenders live on a diet of high sugar and highly processed food.  She points out that broad studies indicate that many people who show abnormal, anti-social, delinquent, or violent behavior are suffering from brain malnutrition and brain poisoning from living on diets of highly processed food and junk food.
I would recommend that next time your shopping take a look at what your putting in the cart. Is it part of the food chain? Or part of the billion dollar food industry?  If it's part of the food chain enjoy, if it's part of the food industry it's best left on the shelves.