There is a health food store here in Nashville that I like to go to.\u00a0 They sell some pretty “normal” things like organic meat and veggies and such.\u00a0 They also sell all of the hard-core health foods like tofu, alfalfa sprouts, whole grains in bulk, every bean you can imagine.\u00a0 This is what some of my patients refer to as “hippie food.”<\/p>\n
Another reason I like going to this store is I like watching the “hippies” who shop there.\u00a0 I’m talking real <\/em>hippies, here.\u00a0 Just wearing tie dyed clothes, long hair and sunglasses doesn’t cut it.\u00a0 Real hippies try in every way to buck the system of Capitalism.\u00a0 One major aspect of the Capitalist society is corporate agriculture.\u00a0 Mass-produced, high fat, salty, overprocessed, genetically altered foods are a large part of corporate agriculture because these foods are easy to produce and have a long shelf life.<\/p>\n The “real” Hippies just don’t go for this.\u00a0 For the most part, their diet consists of food grown locally on small farms.\u00a0 Food grown locally on small farms is not cheap.\u00a0 And last time I checked, very few Hippies are rich.\u00a0 If nothing else, the cost factor limits how much they eat.\u00a0 Plus, local small farms don’t produce trans-fats (that involves a chemistry lab), overly fatty meats,\u00a0 and preservative-loaded sweets full of high-fructose corn syrup.\u00a0 Therefore, there is a huge lack of OBESE HIPPIES!!<\/p>\n I’m not totally against corporate agriculture.\u00a0 I’m not an anti-capitalist.\u00a0 I am a proponent of full disclosure of the ingredients of the foods we eat.\u00a0 I am a proponent of doing real research on these ingredients and finding out the health risks\/benefits of them.\u00a0 I am a huge proponent of using common sense with food!!\u00a0 Eat some veggies!! If it’s full of chemicals, you probably shouldn’t eat it!!\u00a0 Consume only the amount of energy (food) that you will use.\u00a0 If you sit at a computer all day, you probably don’t need four pounds of food per day to meet your metabolic needs.<\/p>\n Enjoy a Snickers bar sometimes.\u00a0 Drink a Coke with it.\u00a0 For the most part, however just eat some lentils and hummus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a health food store here in Nashville that I like to go to.\u00a0 They sell some pretty “normal” things like organic meat and veggies and such.\u00a0 They also sell all of the hard-core health foods like tofu, alfalfa sprouts, whole grains in bulk, every bean you can imagine.\u00a0 This is what some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n