Do you race through a grocery store, snatch up everything labelled 'natural' and go home feeling good about yourself? Well, hold your natural horses. You may have been hoodwinked. Actually, there's no 'may' about it, you've been taken. The FDA is having a difficult time defining exactly what 'natural' means so ah, they don't. They stay out of it. Meaning they have guidelines where the word organic can be used but natural, not so much. There are natural cookies, natural fake juices and even natural cheetos. I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't feel good about yourself in general, go ahead. Just not about buying foods labeled 'natural'.
It's truly sad in that where companies have no right to claim that their product is organic, they attempt the next best 'title', natural. As if we're not going to know the difference. Well, sadly many of us are falling for it. In fact when the FDA claimed that they didn't consider High Fructose Corn Syrup to be natural some heavyweight food manufactures blasted the FDA, claiming that 'hey, it comes from corn!' Natural or not High Fructose Corn Syrup is no friend to any of us. (See archive of this blog "That Friggin' Fructose").
So what do we do? What we've always been able to do; read the label! It's as simple as that. Now get up and take your natural butts to the gym or wherever else you get your fitness on!
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