Has the World gone mad? What's in my food?

Doughnuts, Potato Chips, French Fries, Fried anything, Fish, Organic, Non Organic, Reese's Peanut butter Cups, etc.

FOOD! FOOD! FOOD!

Is it safe? What are we putting into our bodies? And what's the deal America?

Chemicals are everywhere, and not just under our bathroom sinks next to the toilet paper. How can we escape them?

Hydrogenated Oils

Food Coloring

Antifreeze in Bread?

Fake Sugar (I'm talking to you Stevia, Sucralose, Asparteme, etc.)

And a bunch of stuff we read on labels (if we read labels): TBHQ (antioxidant? preservative? poison?), (GMO) corn syrup, BPA, Calcium Sodium EDTA?

What are we eating? And why?

I only recently came across how huge this all really is in investigating a fast food chain that is super popular and super questionable.

Suffice it to say I will leave them anonymous for now. Do your research on fast food though and you'll quickly see there are many culprits out there.

Who doesn't like a burger and fries? Or some chicken all nicely prepared and fried?

But is there more to this than just food?

Dimethylpolysiloxane 

(ps-Formaldehyde is in that!)

What is that crazy huge, hard to pronounce word? Dimethylpolysiloxane.

It's an anti-foaming agent put in lot of products including, make up, food, silly putty, some sealants, etc. 

Sure the percentage of it allowed in food by the FDA is very limited.

But what happens when we slowly put something that doesn't belong in our bodies over a stretch of years? 

I'll tell you one thing: It cannot be good!

Before you grab that snack off the shelf, do some research on those hard to pronounce ingredients, or really long ones that were condensed into smaller letters like TBHQ. You'll be shocked!

But don't do what I did. Don't panic!

In this day and age and where we live, its hard not to eat something that wasn't sprayed with a chemical at one point or another. But take heart. Healthy choices are still out there. Portion control and knowing what to completely avoid (soda has no benefits at all and are reeking with GMO corn syrup), that's what counts.

So, enjoy that doughnut on Sunday. Just don't go home and eat a whole box of them. 

You'll do fine.

From one mom to another, this is Food for Thought.