I'm gonna go on another rant here... so put your seatbelts on...
I love Jamie Lee Curtis. I really do. I think she is awesome... embracing her gray hair, refusing to let her body be photoshopped or airbrushed for magazine shoots... growing old gracefully... etc... I get her... I really do...
Remember when she was the "body"? She was a fitness guru, promoting good health and well being... almost her entire life... Definitely someone to look up to... ya know?
So... I'm having a little bit of trouble with her commercials, and all other other commercials out there advertising little chocolate cups of "digestional cures". All the "bifidus regularis" and such... all that junk is latin code speak for... ready for it? Are you sure? Wait for it... it's coming... hold on...
It's all code speak for "Pooing easily!!!!!!"
I want to understand why all these products have to be invented to "help with regularity" when all the cures are RIGHT THERE IN THE SUPERMARKET AND FARMER'S MARKET SHELVES!!!
The names of these natural cures? FRUIT AND VEGETABLES!!!
Why can't ANYONE on TV talk about how you don't NEED all those chemicals in a cup, with a dash of good bacteria, to be healthy and "regular"... you just need to eat a LOT of fruits and veggies!!!!!
Why does everything have to be so DIFFICULT!!!
If ANYONE wants to know why Americans are sooooo "stopped up"... it's ALL because of our diets... ALL OF IT!!!
Cheeseburgers from a window, lasagna from a frozen container, white bread FULL OF AIR and YEAST, smashed fruit spread onto a plastic film, Aluminum cans filled with cavity inducing, carbonated sugar crystals, sugar water tinted orange and red to 'replenish electrolytes" and the list goes on, and on and on...
Our bodies are designed to eat lots of fresh produce, a small amount of meat, and water... When we start adding in fake cheese in a can, bags of greasy chips, chemically modified powdered "dips", mystery meats from the drive thru... our bodies work EXTRA hard to digest, breakdown, and ultimately eliminate all those extra chemicals and byproducts. It WREAKS HAVOC on our kidneys and liver... every single day! It's bound to stay put and cause a backup, and discomfort...
The cure? Just like our Grandma's used to say... "Eat more roughage"... in other words... EAT MORE PLANTS! They will go right through you... cleaning you out, and helping you feel great!
Personally, I stay away from anything that comes in a cup that disguises itself as chocolate and tells me it's for my bowels... remember those fiber chews from way back when? GROSS!
I feel the same about those fiber powders that dissolve in water... JUST EAT A COUPLE OF APPLES.. for criminy's sake!!! Want fiber? Eat corn, brown rice, apples, oranges, watermelon, cantaloupe, peaches, nectarines, grapes, bananas, mangoes, pineapple, guava, spinach, salad, tomatoes, cukes, eggplant, zucchini, onions and BEANS GALORE!!! etc...
Feel FULL from low calorie, high fiber, high mineral and vitamin, REAL FOODS!!!
Those Activia, Metamucil, Fiber One, Choco this, and strawberry that crud is just a cover for poor eating habits...
Do it naturally, and never worry about getting enough water or vitamins, or protein...
Ms. Curtis... I know you mean well... but I'd much rather see you on TV promoting a healthy eating plan, full of real, whole foods, that will naturally help us to elimate and be healthier overall...
So that's my 2 cents... AGAIN!
But that healthier food plan is not marketable or proitable to certain individuals. It is just basically free advice, eg common sense. There are those people out there who want the "latest" and will spend money they don't have to get it. Jamie and others are there to cash in on their foolishness.
ReplyDeleteooops...profitable. Need spell checker her, or better yet, proof-read before hitting POST COMMENT button!
ReplyDeleteDid it again....here not her
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