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I have the opinion that there is a lot of focus on fats being bad for you, carbohydrates being bad for you, meat is bad for you.

But really the biggest evil for me is not knowing what other chemicals they put into those processed foods.

Your body requires fats and carbohydrates and proteins. That is a given. Your body needs sugar, salts as well.

The problem is always the quality of them.

I try to eat home cooked food and realise they taste very different from food that we bought off Kraft, Pepsico and Nestle. In the past when I take them, I always want to go back to have them. If I am working till 3pm, I will start to feel strange if I don’t consume them.

Looks like there may be a reason to it. Bloomberg today have an article that says there is growing body of medical research at leading universities suggesting that processed foods and sugary drinks made by the likes of PepsiCo and Kraft hijack the brain in ways that resemble additctions to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs.

A quick note is that these companies have also started coming up with healthy foods, or so they claim. Lower fat to no fat, contains healthy minerals. The problem is that how much of them is actually in the product, whether they are significant enough to make an impact.

I have colleagues who wants to be healthy and so he takes these healthy granola bars. But what if to make these products last longer, they throw in some chemicals to do that. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?

The danger here is that you think you are eating something that is healthy and nutritious so you consume more, but in actual fact it is doing you harm instead of good.

I will be extra skeptical about healthy processed food. It is probably easier for me to know if its good for me since a little consumption of problematic food will trigger a response from my body.

Prolong poor diet will eventually lead to feeling low in energy at different times of the day, and that will eventually impede your productivity.

To ensure that you remain high on energy, pay attention to your diet and ensure that you feed yourself right.