Have we gone too far?

Our society has advanced in many ways using technology, but are we more advanced in producing healthy sources of food than our ancestors? Think about how our fore fathers produced food for their families. Farmers did not produce a lot of food before they had tractors and pesticides, but what they did produce was good and wholesome.

Do you ever wonder where your food comes from? Do you know how far your food travels to get from the person who grows it to your table? We in the US spend a lot of fuel in producing and shipping the food that we eat across the globe to our table. Our food that is shipped from far away also consumes the resources of trees which provide the paper products to protect our food during shipment.

How much nutrition is in our food?

Is fresh food grown using organic methods more expensive than food produced using pesticides and processing methods? If you go down to your local Whole Foods and compare the price of fresh organic produce to the price of a frozen entree at HEB you may think that you can eat cheaper by purchasing the frozen dinner. While you may also think that you can save time by opting to take short cuts in using processed foods over preparing your meals from fresh ingredients you may be missing some important time savings in your health.

When you take the time and spend a little more on fresh foods and cooking from scratch you are doing your body a big favor. There is more nutrition in fresh foods than there is in processed foods so your dollar will buy more nutrition when you buy fresh.