Some of you guys viewing this article may think you're superior because you don't eat exactly these imenu items listed (the Hostess chocolate pudding pie, the Jack in the Box Bacon Cheddar Potato Wedges, the DiGiorno for One Supreme Pizza, the Jimmy Dean Pancake and Sausage Breakfast Bowl, the Outback Steakhouse Baby Back Ribs, the Baskin-Robbins Oreo Shake), but let me tell you...
Very little of what you actually eat from the center of the supermarket is "healthy". Very little of what you get at the fast-food joint is "nutritious".
Our bodies evolved over hundred of thousands of years by early man "living off the land". We ate foliage (leaves, lettuce). We ate fruits and vegetables and berries and nuts and seeds. THAT is what our bodies are designed to digest. These are the fundamental building blocks of a healthy body -- and also, healthy mind.
Eating animal flesh is failrly recent in the grand scheme of human evolution.
And eating a Carl's Western Bacon Double Cheeseburger and a Snickers Bar -- and washing it down with a caffeine-laden "energy drink" -- is an even more recent phenomenon.
The outside, the perimeter, of the supermarket is where the nutrition is: the produce, the grains, the nuts. Carrots and blueberries. Almonds. I go into the center of the market because I'm too lazy to prepare my own beans (kidney, pinto, black).
Keep it natural. Pretend you're living off the land when you enter a supermarket.
Honey-Nut Cheerios is not living off the land (nor is granola stuck together with high-fructose corn syrup). White and wheat bread is not living off the land (buy specifically sprouted whole grain breads -- I have to go to Trader Joe's or Whole Foods). Chocolate pudding "snack cups" are not living off the land.
Eat like you should, as your body was designed through hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, and give up animal meats, and you won't have to worry about getting fat or counting calories again. And you greatly reduce heart problems.