The Health Food Epidemic

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]I hope Im not joining this too late.

I, too, have noticed the decline of goodness in junkfood. All I used to ever eat was pure junkfood and nothing else. During my entire childhood it was chacolate, chips, or something nasty.

Ever since a few years ago, though, I stopped eating chips and chocolate. Not because of weight issues (never had em) but because they just don't taste good anymore. I can never find any good potato chips these days -- the only crackers left with any worth are goldfish and tricuits.

Mind you I'm not really complaining as there are planty of other foods that I like, but I definitely agree that junkfood quality has declined dramatically.[/COLOR]

[Aaryanna_Mom]

I couldn?t say one way or the other when it comes to junk food tasting different. It?s all changed so much over the years that I hardly recognize it anymore. At one time I might have found it annoying, but now that my health can no longer tolerate it I like the changes as it means foods that I completely avoided before I can now have in moderation.

I agree with what others are saying about there being far more junk food than healthy in the stores. That is something that regardless of how the junk food may taste, has not changed one bit in the past couple of decades. If nothing else, there are even more choices when it comes to junk food than their use to be.

Pity we don?t really have what the title ?The Health Food Epidemic? implies, as I see no such thing when I go to the store. I see instead an epidemic of even more junk food with lots of new fancy labels about not having certain types of harmful substances in them, but still junk food.

And some of the more healthy foods have outright disappeared from the shelves to make room for the new junk food. It?s like instead of actually putting real health food on the shelves they are instead putting the new junk food up in it?s place.

[Fyxe]

[size=1][color=slategray]Our school has gone on this health regulation thing this year. They took away our Cheetos. >: O Blasphemy, I say.

Whatever, I still eat cake in homeroom.[/color][/size]

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue][quote name='Aaryanna_Mom']And some of the more healthy foods have outright disappeared from the shelves to make room for the new junk food. It?s like instead of actually putting real health food on the shelves they are instead putting the new junk food up in it?s place.[/quote]Quoted for truth, that?s exactly what?s happened in the Wal-Mart near my home. They redid the store this year and now we have entire isles dedicated to the new crackers, cookies, candy and potatoes chips that are suppose to be the better ones for you. Literally up to one half of the entire food section of the store is nothing but the new junk food craze.

One of the changes I hate the most is the new ?Splenda? they put in diet sodas. Especially since I prefer the diet as I hate the syrup taste to the regular, but now the new Splenda sweetener, gives it the same sickening taste. So far they haven?t done it to all of the diet soda?s but the day they do is the day I quit drinking any form of soda.

The potato chips and crackers and other changes don?t really bother me that much since I?ve never been a big fan of that kind of junk food. In fact most of the time I don?t even eat it, which is why the diet soda change annoys me as it?s the one thing I do like to have.

They?ve also been switching the store over to more of the healthy choice soups as well and I?ve always preferred just plain chicken noodle soup. The new one tastes terrible. And last time I checked, so long as it?s in moderation, the amount of fat I would get from my favorite soups isn?t enough to need changing.

I?m more inclined to think it?s a push by the insurance companies as health issues due to obesity is close to becoming the number one killer in America. Or so a health magazine I read while waiting for the Dentist said when I was reading it earlier this week. Seems like every time I read something along those lines the reasons as to why things are happening changes. [/COLOR]

[Hanabishi Recca]

Well, I havn't seen much of a difference.

Theres still alot of un-healthy things in the super market. Look at some of these things, if something says, "0 trans fats" that doesn't make it healthy. If you want to die at 50 then go ahead and eat whatever you want.

On the fat side of me (Which there isn't much), if you really care that much, just find something that tastes good and eat it!