Processed, processed, everything is processed!

I don't know about you, but I get a little nauseated over the buzz-words that flood the internet and media for years on end.  In the fitness world, the word is "core".  Enough with the planking already!  Unless you have to hold up a dam, your deltoids will never need that much static strength!  But that's really my husband's department... I'll let him get to that one on his own blog.  In my world of nutritional reading, that word is "processed".

What this word intended to describe are foods that are overly processed and in so-doing they were stripped of their nutrients or their very chemical bonds were distorted or oxidized.  This is a valid concern because the grocery store shelves are lined with such items. There are flours that have had so much of the nutrients stripped from them, they have to add vitamins just to call them food. Not to mention the oils that are often chemically altered to extend their shelf-life or add some texture to the lifeless things.

But let's be honest, almost all food, from the moment you cut it off it's stalk, tree, plant, etc.  is processed.  When you process something you change or preserve it so that you can eat it. So...Churning butter:  processed.  Took a cow to market:  processed.   Chopping broccoli:  processed.  But, remember kids, never eat any processed foods. Lean down and eat foods directly from the bush.