So I finished the paper I wanted to write to hand out at the next parent meeting. Can you guy look at it from a typical parent point fo view and tell me what you think?
If it is labeled “all natural�, it’s good for you!
You can trust the ads when they say “natural�, right? Wrong. Those “natural� foods still contain sugar, high fructose corn syrup and other junk your body cannot properly digest. Heck, arsenic is natural and so is anthrax, but I sure as heck wouldn’t buy any to put on my cereal in the morning.
Let’s look at sugar. A few years ago, my family decided we had enough refined sugar and tried to cut it out of our diet. What we found was that there is sugar in everything. Mustard, catsup, bread, chips, juice. When something bragged it was sugar-free, it usually contained artificial sugar substitutes at worst and fruit juice concentrates at best. The labels are terribly misleading. Even foods marketed towards infants often contain sugar. Those little “fruit� snacks you offer your children? Guess what one of the two main ingredients is? Yep, sugar, followed closely by corn syrup. This is a trick maunfaturers of foods use. If you break up the sugar into two different types, it will not appear as the first ingredient.