Tag Archive: grocery store

When ‘Healthier’ is Not Healthy

Health foods are becom­ing more and more avail­able but health claims are becom­ing even more wide­spread. Instead of say­ing sugar, labels now say “nat­ural cane sugar” or con­tain images of idyl­lic farm land­scapes when in fact the prod­uct is shrink-wrapped in plas­tic and came to you from a net­work of con­veyer belts.

Surviving the Grocery Store Jungle

So many of us ratio­nal­ize our gro­cery choices too quickly — and we fail to pro­vide our bod­ies with the right foods required to pro­mote health. Many of us think that for a prod­uct to be allowed on the shelves, it must be safe. I mean, don’t these things go through rig­or­ous study and test­ing? Unfor­tu­nately, they do not.