The Three Dangers. To Search and Destroy . . . or not.

#1 Aspartame                               #2 MSG                                           #3High Fructose Corn Syrup

Ok, I've known how horrible Aspartame is for a LONG time, it leaches nutrients from your bones, makes you crave carbs, sucks your memories away when you are old (alsheimers) sp ??

I've tried to stay away from it for the most part.  I mean who wants to taste chemicals anyway.  Seriously, it is so obvious when they use it in drinks and salad dressings.  Still haven't given up an occasional piece of gum or the traditional Sour mint after sacrament on Sunday. 

. . . . but I am beginning to wonder. . . .should I?  Will it be worth it?  Will it really make a difference? 


#2 Evil  MSG

Migraines, mimics M.S. symptoms, causes obesity. 

Did you know that the only thing they do to cause a rat to be obese is give it MSG. 

You've got to be kidding me!  They know for a fact that it causes obesity and they still pump it into all our foods full knowing we are going to look like plump little lab rats!  So cruel!

So what would I have to give up?  Salad dressings aren't a problem, I can just make my own, they taste better anyway. .. .but Soy Sauce?  I love that stuff!  I mean really love it!  Or rather love cooking with it.

How can I make stir fry without soy sauce?

Chips?  Most of them . . .

#3 Corn Syrup

I didn't really buy into this one until just a day or two ago, and now I get it.  DANG!  I wish I didn't.  That stuff is in EVERYTHING!  I mean I even went to use bread crumbs and there it was.  It is in the milk substitute (Morning Moo) that we have used for years. 

I have bragged and said how much healthier my kids have been because they are only getting the whey of the milk, yea right!  Just replaced the rest with sugar, even worse though, chemically altered sugar.  UuuG!

SOOoooo now what do I do?  Do I just cut the 3 nightmare ingredients out of my own life?  or do I purge my home like a mother searching to destroy a treacherous germ pegging her family. 

I'm worried if I start looking my pantry will be empty by the time I'm done. 

I started and within 20 seconds I had, 5 boxes of cereal, Graham crackers, crackers, bread crumbs, BBQ Sauce, a stir fry marinade. 

I had to stop myself.  Great!  Now what? 

Do I become fanatical?  Do I become one of those people that I eat healthy but feed my kids Mac and Cheese and hot dogs because I don't want to deal with it? 

Seems to me that if I believe it is as bad as it is, I should go on a search and destroy mission and eliminate it from my home.  Would I want a decease sitting in my home?

I'm just not sure I am that committed yet.  Help me be.