Top 3 Reasons you're confused about food!

To be blunt, food is mostly seen as a means to an end. You eat to get by like most people working 40+ hours a week, caring for children and dealing with the latest financial drama. Most Canadians don’t have the time or effort to seek nutritional information, beyond the box. Yes, the nutritional labels and ingredient lists are handy, but they only get you so far.
That’s the #3 Reason you’re confused, inconvenience.

Whether it’s time or lack thereof or fear of too much space being taken up in your brain, very few of us go past the manufactures given information to actually learn what sodium benzoate really is, or castoreum. It’s frankly work, and too many Canadians do too much of that already.

This article is not meant to point fingers or say what a horrible human being you are by staying oblivious, it’s simply to state that we as a population ARE confused. Being aware is one step closer to solving this issue.

Touching lightly on the topic above, financial concerns make for confusing decisions.
The #2 Reason you’re confused can be found in your back pocket, Money.

 

The other green thing we worry about not have much of. Breaking down your food requirements also means diving into your bank book. We no longer have the abilities we did to just grow a garden like our forefathers, a huge amount of the population live in tiny confined boxes we call apartments or better yet “condos”.  We all know one thing about food; the closer it is to REAL the better it is for us. Yet again, it cycles back to the #3 point, inconvenience. Money may be tight for most, but tending to a garden takes time, and time is money. Catch 22. So for most, decisions on food and the quality of it is closely linked to finances, unfortunately.

 

Like most Canadians you have been given little to no formal training on nutrition, although some Canadians have. We must look at the ones who have and question where that training came from in the first place.
Bringing us to our #1 Reason why you are confused, because even the experts are!

 

Yes, we have all had in our hands at one point or another, the great old Canada Food Guide. Not to disrespect anyone who believes this guide is the infallible word of nutrition, but this is a watered down, non-inclusive guide funded mostly by the industries it promotes in the first place (ie, Dairy farmers of Canada, Canada Pork, Beef Information Centre, Kraft Canada Inc, Chicken Farmers of Canada, McCain Foods Canada). Experts have been taught in schools, information based on this guide. Confusion of food is rampant in our society and this article is only pointing out the basics as to why. It’s up to you to take this information and do with it what you will, but considering food IS the reason you’re alive at this moment, it may be worth the inconvenience, the money and the research to find out more about it.