• Grocery stores offer a confusing and treacherous landscape of foods. (i.e. cereals that advertise how their product will enable kids to pay better attention in school—we blogged about that!);
• Most items in our grocery stores are not really foods but merely edible, food-like substances (i.e. Drinkable tubes of yogurt);
• Grocery stores offer too much processed foods and meat;
• Most foods come loaded with too much added fats and sugars;
• If there are ingredients on a label that a third grader can’t pronounce, don’t eat it.
Michael Pollan gave advice regarding how to avoid these food traps: “Eat food, mostly plants but not too much.”
If you happen to like this type of data on our food supply, then the documentary Food, Inc is a must see.