As a family we have decided to get on a healthy lifestyle plan. Not in a super ott way but because of general things we have noticed with processed food. It all started when I had a conversation with my husband (a chef) about how healthy or unhealthy the children's food menu is in his restaurant. It started to spiral as we looked through our own freezer. I always have good intentions of making everything home made but time seems to go by to fast in any 1 day. I changed my mind when I was in the supermarket looking for chicken nuggets for Amelia made with 100% chicken breast. I found one, a very well known brand, with "100% Chicken Breast" in huge writing across the packet. 100%? Really? Turn it over. I've found all in stores in are 50% - 74% chicken breast. The rest is water, and God knows what chemicals I can't pronounce. Well for us that was the end of chicken nuggets! I can take some time out each week to chop up a chicken breast, crumb it and freeze it.
I can't help but wonder the obvious. Do we have more illness, disease and general health problems because of the improvement in our health care or the over load of chemicals we have in our day to day lives? Research by Bionsen, a natural deodorant company, found that the average woman's daily grooming and make-up routine means she 'hosts' a staggering 515 different synthetic chemicals on her body every single day. That doesn't included the God knows how many things we put IN our bodies. Now I'm not against improvements in health care and I'm honestly probably not going to stop putting chemicals on my body. Organic lotions maybe but I still like my products.
I suppose every action has a reaction. Every improvement in our food/hygiene means there is something natural being taken away. Here's what got me pondering in the first place. Steam mops... bear with me I have a point :) At first this seemed fantastic! I can clean the floors, killing germs, no chemicals BUT what's in the water I'm using? Tap water is treated so unless you get water from your own well or a spring is it really chemical free? Again...I'm still gonna use it but the thought still crossed my mind.
We now buy organic produce. We, sadly, don't have the soil for growing veg and it would take a HUGE overhaul of the garden to fix that. We don't have the soil because of builders leaving god knows what buried there not because I know anything about what kind of soil is needed. Still when I put organic veg into the shopping cart...what was in the soil it was grown in? So unless you are 100% self sufficient and living in the middle of no where can you actually avoid chemicals?
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