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Googled "dairy drink HEB", and Yahoo! Answers provided this:
So, it looks like it's watered down milk with sugar added, with the apparent benefit being lower price than milk. Not something I would buy.
"a fermented milk drink that originated in the Caucasus region. It is prepared by inoculating cow, goat, or sheep's milk with kefir grains. Traditional kefir was made in skin bags that were hung near a doorway; the bag would be knocked by anyone passing through the doorway to help keep the milk and kefir grains well mixed"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir
Amazing what that Mr Google can find.
A.k.a. "Malk" as seen on The Simpsons.
Sounds like the dairy version of Sunny Delight, which isn't really orange juice either.
Can't be any worse than "Minute Maid Pulpy Super Milky drink."
http://www.china.org.cn/business/2009-10/13/content_18692411.htm
Why don't they just go ahead and rename it "Diabetes"?
This is slightly sketchy research, but the label's "bebidas lactea" pulls up a wikipedia article in Portugese that, when Babelfished, essentially says it's a drink composed of 51% milk and 49% "milk serum," or whey - milk with the casein proteins and fats removed. "Less nutritional than yogurt and less dense."
Err...where in the picture does it imply that the Dairy Drink is kefir?
As far as I'm concerned it's "Moo Juice" pure and simple.
That is absolutely not kefir, and watered down milk + sugar sounds pretty nasty.
Cripes. I signed in to post "It's probably the milk equivalent of Sunny D." Scooped by Ill Lich.
I really hate this kind of product. Healthy-sounding cheap fakes are so . . . well, the kind of thing you'd find in a Pohl & Kornbluth novel, that indicates that things have started to slide. Like a Cadillac you have to pedal, or chicken meat grown in a vat.
I don't want to live in a Pohl & Kornbluth novel.
But does it have electrolytes?
Reminds me of the "honey-flavored syrup" I saw at a friend's house.
Dairy drink is gross; fruit "punch" ("contains 5% juice!") is revolting. But I think vat-grown chicken would be great and probably sell well after initial skepticism. Just contrast the dire prediction of a future of unwashed masses eating soy food, with today's premium-priced ersatz soy-and-binder chicken nuggets.
I once asked someone to pick up chocolate milk for my daughter. They came back from Food Lion with a gallon of "chocolate drink". It was mostly corn sirup, water and chocolate. No dairy at all. Disgusting. Never let my daughter have a drop.
The stuff is still sold from food lion. It's there on the shelves waiting to destroy the health of some kid with less discerning parents.
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Maybe it's the stuff left over after they make non-dairy creamer.
Isn't this the same as Yoo-Hoo, which I think is kind of popular in the states right below Canada? (where I am, and where the dairy industry lobby may have gotten this kind of thing outlawed)
It's High Fructose Corn Syrup with milk flavoring and color.
Anything you find in a store these days is either (1) High Fructose Corn Syrup with flavor and color and some vitamins squirted in, or (2) real food.
The manufacturers of (1) try as hard as possible to make it difficult to tell the difference. But one is food and one is not.
At our kids soccer games, parents were asked to bring "healthy" snacks for the kids. So they all switched from cake and cookie things to compressed bars of High Fructose Corn Syrup with wild free natural organic names in bright colors. At soccer games my kids drink water and snack on apples and oranges grown in trees not produced in a factory.
here's HEB's online comment form, tell them to stop carrying crap disguised as food: http://www.heb.com/welcome/contactUs.jsp
Local supermarkets in Scottsdale are offering "Frozen Dairy Dessert" in ice-cream-like containers for 99 cents a gallon. It has a good taste and smooth texture, which surprised me because I was expecting the sort of rock-hard chocolate bricks I used to have to chisel through when I was growing up. I can't vouch for its nutritional value, though. Not that people eat ice cream for the nutrition, but... well, I'll let someone else explore that point.
We bought some along with a 77-cent bottle of store brand root beer, and made approximations of root beer floats. What should we call them? Dairy-dessert-enhanced root beer? The root beer, at least, could still be legally labeled as such.
"Would you like some grape juice?"
"Juice? Ni**a what the fuck is JUICE? I want some grape DRINK"
What do you expect when you shop at HE Butt?
You know, this all revolts us, but why is it that we accept it with juice?
In England in particular, I have found that it is virtually impossible to get any pure juice (I haven't lived there in six years, so I might be out of date). Virtually all juice is horrible acidic stuff from concentrate with added sugars and corn syrup and other grossness. But people there just don't seem to mind -- and they actually think it's supposed to be good for them.
If you can dupe a whole population into drinking flavored "juice drinks," then who's to say we won't all be convinced soon to drink flavored "dairy drinks?"
@pentomino
and yet, that root beer isn't root beer at all - it's root-beer flavored corn syrup and water, and not a molecule of sassafras root in it:
"Sassafras bark was banned by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1976 because of the carcinogenic properties of its constituent chemical safrole."
Obviously, "dairy drink" is made from pureed cattle, and the occasional unavoidable pureed dairy worker (less than 1% by law).
Jeez, people, why do I even have to point this stuff out?
@samsam
yeah i used to get really pissed about all the corn syrup 'juice' drinks, especially at the larger chain grocery stores. thankfully i live in hippy town (Santa Cruz) and the options are incredible when it comes to natural/healthy/organic/hippy food, and i can get locally produced pure juices of all kinds, from pure blueberry to pure STRAWBERRY juice. at a price, of course.
i bought a juicer a while back, and though it's fell into disuse, it's one of my favorite things. making your own apple juice is just f'ing wonderful. and if you've never has a large shot glass full of fresh, pure strawberry juice, then you ought to try and hold out on dying until you do.
eggplantsub,
Do you live in the vicinity of an H-E-B? Did your local H-E-B stop carrying something you bought often and replaced it with this? Your idea is ridiculous. Why would a local grocery store chain stop carrying a product based on what someone in another state or country thinks? You're tinkling in the wind on this one.
How about instead you petition your congressional representative or senator to subsidize foods such as spinach and broccoli instead of corn?
Poor people buy this because it gives them the most bang for their buck. It's cheap because the ingredients it's made from are subsidized. Subsidize healthier foods, and healthier food becomes cheaper.
Live a couple of months on WIC assistance and maybe your disgust at the product and people who buy it may be tempered a little bit.
this whole thing reminds me of when my dad explained that "Chocolatey-Chip" cookies are not actually "Chocolate", just chocolate-like. it was a horrible eye-opener.
Soylent White?
Milk is absolutely disgusting. I have never understood why people drink it. Milk is for babies, and cow milk is for calves. I am neither.
As a kid, I would inundate the vile stuff with chocolate or strawberry powder just to be able to stomach the forced regimen... as an adult, I'm eternally grateful to the makers of rice "milk" -- why didn't anyone tell me about that stuff when I was 6!?!
All that being said, this is, I might dare to say, even grosser than real milk.
@pentomino
I too buy frozen dairy dessert, and that's why I checked the comments here: to find out what, exactly, was going on. It's a good purchase for an ice-cream-like experience, but about 1/3 of the carton tastes like frozen marshmallow fluff.
The product is labled "Bebida Lactea", AKA "Kefir" which is a compound of whey milk and milk, and milk composition is less than 51% of the total mass of the product. The store in question is HEB, a mass supermarket in Texas, home to many Latinos. Latinos have a high rate of genetic intolorance to lactose (milk). Enjoy your (low milk content) Dairy Drink my Latino Texas friends!
Finally, a decent base for Moloko.
Just add amphetamines... and a little bit of the old ultra-violence.
Yum yum
This is the perfect beverage for lactose intolerant diabetics!
@nutbastard - Much like an earlier commenter, I was going to sign in just to say that. Oh, Dave Chappelle (starting around 1:37).
"Sugar. Water. And, of course, purple."
How is real milk gross compared to rice "milk"?
At least cows/humans/and most mammals naturally produce milk. Last time I check a rice plant produces rice, not rice milk or rice drink.
Realistically milk is fairly good for you (assuming you can digest lactose). It has a good proportion of protein, carbs, and fat. Which all those things are added to rice/soy milk.
thivai,
In answer to your pointed question, yes, I do live close to an HEB. It's five blocks away, the closest grocery store to my house, and one I frequent all the time.
Petition my congressional rep to subsidize broccoli? And you think I'm the one who's tinkling in the wind? Stores are a lot more responsive to the pressure from their own consumers than the government is to its constituents. If I was wrong, every Pollan-reader would've already convinced Congress to stop subsidizing corn. The Pollan-people's choice was Obama and he chose Vilsack is Secretary of Ag. Not the change we can believe in.
My disgust isn't for the people who are poor and buy this crap, it's the companies who trick them into degrading their health by consuming something they think is milk. But thanks for being insulting without getting the context.
While we're at it:
Hershey's "Mr. Goodbar" bars are no longer milk chocolate with peanuts. They're made "with" chocolate. It's that mediocre chocolate-oid made with cheap vegetable oils rather than cocoa butter.
So far actual Hershey chocolate bars are still chocolate. So far.
HeruRaRa: Cow's milk is for calf food in the same way that rice grains are for plant reproduction. Repurposing either for human consumption could be considered "unnatural" but at least the milk can be digested more or less as-is. Getting a milk-like product out of a rice plant? That's some hard-core engineering there.
Even some big brand names are playing games like this with what used to be fairly simple foods.
Friendly's ice cream has started making some of its products as "frozen dairy dessert(s)" instead of the "ice cream".
From ( http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Milk+producers+oppose+ice+cream+standard+changes.-a0102553104) : "frozen dairy desserts formulated by replacing milkfat with vegetable fat may still manufactured, but would be labeled with a common or usual name that is more descriptive to consumers such as "frozen dessert" or "frozen dairy dessert," if the milk solids predominate."
From Friendly's ( http://www.friendlys.com/ice-cream/take-home-treats/ice-cream-cartons/view/49 )
Friendly's brings you more of what you crave with Sundae Xtreme™. Every spoonful is Loaded With The Stuff You Love... We start with chocolate flavored frozen dairy dessert and load it with fudge brownie chunks & thick fudge swirl.
When they started using 56 oz, then 48 oz "half gallons" it seemed sneaky enough, but now they are taking the cream (and its milk fat) out of ice cream.
Hey, there's no ice cream in my ice cream!
I believe this is what is generally referred to as Filled Milk.
I have a sudden urge for Calpis.
And there's no use crying over filled milk.
googled "bebida lactea" (from the label) and found a Portugese wikipedia page. After letting the goog translate that page, it would appear that Dairy Drink is what the natural food folks call kefir...
Don't know about what else might be in there, but I guess kefir is milk with some whey added?
"Moloko" is Russian for "milk."
So, it's less healthy than pure milk. Ok. So are most things. It's not like it's "mercury drink." What's the big deal?
I don't know about you, but I _don't_ accept this with juice. I generally buy Ocean Spray. True, it's still only 23% juice from concentrate, but the other ingredients are water, cane/beet sugar, and a couple of preservatives and vitamins. I occasionally go for the brands that are 100% juice too (actually about the same price - sometimes cheaper) but they don't taste as good. Probably because they tend to be a mix of about 5 different juices...mostly whatever is cheapest.
But seriously, unless you're buying the $2/gallon juice brands, most of the ones I've been able to find aren't that bad. As I said, even Ocean Spray (the Big Name Brand that you would kinda expect to be HFCS) is using real sugar now.
The ones I hate are the teas. Anyone ever look at the ingredients in Lipton 'Real' iced tea? It's watered down tea colored brown with apple concentrate. Seriously? _tea_ is getting so expensive they have to water it down? I avoid the Lipton stuff like the plague. Doesn't even taste good. Go for Tazo if you can, that stuff is still real.
LOL, I've seen "Frozen Dairy Dessert" at Kroger. It was on sale for 10/$10. It was terrible, the cheapest version of ice cream I've ever had (in taste and price).
rice milk: put rice in blender with water, blend, strain. not really hardcore engineering.
@samsam: Your information is out of date. In supermarkets there is always a good selection of smoothies, non-concentrate fruit juices etc. (Independent corner shops are a different matter - there, anything goes).
I have never seen rubbish like Dairy Drink on sale, though. I suspect that is because Sunny Delight was laughed to scorn a few years back after people started questioning what was really in it ...
SamSam: really in England? Were you only shopping at the discount stores (Aldi, Lidl etc)? All the major supermarkets sell both fresh, pure juice (refrigerated) and "from concentrate", pure juice (room temperature). Typically at least orange, apple, grapefruit and pineapple, and often some others.
(They may also sell stuff that isn't pure juice in similar packaging, but in every store I've been the pure juice has taken up more shelf space.)
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@samsam: Your information is out of date. In supermarkets there is always a good selection of smoothies, non-concentrate fruit juices etc. (Independent corner shops are a different matter - there, anything goes).
I have never seen rubbish like Dairy Drink on sale, though. I suspect that is because Sunny Delight was laughed to scorn a few years back after people started questioning what was really in it ...
Sigh.
@HeruRaHa
People drink milk for the same reason we consume anything. We're omnivores, we'll eat just about anything that keeps us alive and thriving. And milk does/did just that. So we evolved the ability to keep consuming it as adults. And if you're so disgusted by milk who do you consume rice milk. A product market through its similarity in both taste, texture, and cooking properties to real milk?
rice milk: put rice in blender with water, blend, strain. not really hardcore engineering.
I just counted three more steps than it takes to make cow's milk drinkable, and you left out the part where you cook the rice first.
My wife and I do not plan to have children, so I'm only offering her Spermy D and she only produces Ovumtine.
Ah, Malk... Ohhhh! My bones are so brittle!! http://toothopolis.tumblr.com/post/219355808/ohhhhhh-my-bones-are-so-brittle-but-i-always
Sad, innit.
Too late, Bubba, far too late...
Years ago, I was stocking up on grillin' food for a friend's picnic.
The supermarket had Ball Park Beef Franks for about two bucks, and Ball Park Hot Dogs for $.99.
At least the latter had to be kept in the meat case.
And don't forget "cheese product" which is cheese laced with extra...something.
And I was watching on the Food Network about how when Pringles came out, and the potato chip companies sued them because they weren't really potato chips - more like mashed potatoes, form shaped and baked.
I'm Portuguese and can assure you that "Bebida Láctea" does not mean, in any way, kafir. It's a blend of milk and milk serum, with no further fermentation stages. Not a million miles away from those "diet"/"active" milk drinks.
@Keneke
Pringles were recently ruled to be a potato snack (and hence liable for purchase tax) in the UK, despite being only 42% potato. Proctor & Gamble had argued they were more of a cake or biscuit, because they're made from dough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8060204.stm
Remember, everyone: calling something "poison" ro "not food" is unwarranted hyperbole unless it's actually toxic enough to make you very sick very quickly, or cannot be digested by the body to use as energy. If there are nutritionists out there who can provide more precise definitions of these terms, I'd love to hear them.
HFCS, Dairy Drink, Pasteurized Process Cheese Food, and all the wacky GM stuff that's coming out of labs, are all food. It's probably not as good as cane sugar, fresh milk, and raw cheese, but the human body can derive energy from all of it, and people live decades despite consuming more of it than they'd care to know about. And GM foods might turn out to be better for you, though I understand that increased nutrition makes less money than increased crop yield.
I was reading a book the other day about the history of public health programs in the U.S., and it mentioned that one of the causes of malnutrition among urban poor children in late 1800s-early 1900s was vendors selling watered-down milk instead of real milk in those neighborhoods. Naively, I thought "Well, thank goodness for food regulations." Apparently it's still legal, though I guess it's an improvement that they can't call it milk any more.
Interestingly, my captcha is "Betty satiated."
Um, if you're living 'on WIC assistance' you get plenty of real milk. And real cheese. And real corn flakes, as long as their in the right sized box.
(I was a WIC kid, and as a teenager worked in a grocery store, so I know.)
Anyways, on the topic of 'most bang for the buck'- the required nutritional labels on fast food is proving that. People are buying MORE calories, not less, now. Because they want to fill up.
What the? I am genuinely appalled at the stuff people eat and drink in America. It's like those foodie-fakes from North Korea but with less entertaining advertising.
"And GM foods might turn out to be better for you"
How does being Roundup Ready make it better for you? Cheaper, maybe, but most of the GM mods I know about have little to do with nutritional value.
Many GM crops require less pesticides than unmodified crops.
It has a good proportion of protein, carbs, and fat. Which all those things are added to rice/soy milk.
No.
Ingredients in Silk soymilk: organic soymilk (filtered water, whole organic soybeans), calcium carbonate, sea salt, natural flavors, carrageenan, vitamin A palmitate, Vitamin D, Riboflavin, and Vitamin B12
Do you see added protein, carbs, and fat? I see some added vitamins and minerals.
Furthermore, many people -- the vast majority in many populations -- can't digest cow's milk well. I am one of them. The bodily secretions of another species are not more "natural" for humans to drink than a beverage made from squishing up soybeans in water. I think you could make a very good argument that it's less "natural" to drink cow's milk, because so much of the world's human population is not evolutionarily adapted to do so.
Rice milk? Bleh. Soy milk? Cancer. I'll take milk (or cream) for my cereal, coffee, and ice cream. Raw eggs in the ice cream, too. You ever eat vegan ice cream made with Rice Dream? Tastes like a newspaper took a shit on a box of cornstarch.
It's what they make "Cheese Food" from.
@Caroline
In most people who have difficulty digesting cows milk its because of the presence of lactose the natural sugar found in all animal milks. So its not just another animal's secretions that will make a lactose intolerant sick, human breast milk will as well. Most animals lose the enzyme (lactase) needed to digest lactose after a certain point in their development. Humans have evolved to keep producing lactase into adulthood. People from areas of the world/ethnic backgrounds that don't consume much milk have a higher incidence of lactose intolerance because they produce less lactase to begin with. When you reduce or eliminate your dairy consumption your body will reduce or eliminate your lactase production. Often times you can actually get jumpstart lactase production by continuing to consume dairy (sensibly of course). I've done it, my former vegan sister has been working on it for 5 years (she's finally able to eat a good amount of dairy without lactaid). Some people are lactose intolerant from birth. Usually they are genetically incapable of creating lactase, other times another genetic disorder blocks the body's ability to create it (think Celiac). And of course remember cultured dairy products (yogurt etc) and cheeses over aged 6 months or more have no lactose in them so they wont make a lactose intolerant sick.
Of course you could actually be allergic to milk protein which is a different beast.
@ takeshi - please provide a reference for your soy milk = cancer claim.
In the 14 years that I have been online, I have never literally LOLed as hard as I did at that line.
@Caroline, I wonder if you'd be so opposed to milk if you weren't allergic to it.
Milk is "natural" insofar as it occurs in nature without us having to actually create it. Drinking it is just as natural as eating the cow but without all the messy 'death' part for the cow. Milk is also, incidentally, delicious.
Dairy Drink is, sadly, not milk. The fact that the law allows it to be presented to look like milk, or sold -near- milk, is a shame. I pity the fool that drinks this stuff.
@apoxia Soy milk is derived from soybeans, which contain phytoestrogens; some research indicates that phytoestrogens stimulate the growth of certain types of tumours. You want references, go for a Google and make up your own mind; Boing-Boing is not a peer-reviewed journal.
Please pass the REAL milk! I can't believe the lengths companies will go to to save $$$. They don't even care if it's safe to consume. I won't buy Kraft products anymore. They are pumping their Kraft "Singles" and mac and cheese products full of milk protein concentrate (MPC) imported from unregulated foreign countries. As much as they charge for their products, you'd think they could use real milk, not imported crap.
Word to the wise: don't eat anything with milk protein concentrate on the label. It's allowed to be imported for glue production, not food products.
For more info, google "milk protein concentrate" or visit:
http://www.ethicurean.com/2009/03/10/mpcs/
http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org/pmwiki.php/MPC/IsThereKrapInYourKraftSingles
It is to milk what "juice drink" is to juice.
Avoid it, prolly full of gmo garbage. Or else drink it and grow fat and ill and complain about your thyroid or whatever else your FDA approved HMO accepted quasi-quack says is wrong.
btw, this is NOT Kefir. Kefir is a premium product and probably even healthy. Bebida Lactea just means "Milk Drink"
That should read "Dairy DRANK"
I grew up drinking milk and grew to like the flavor, so wish I'd known about soy, rice and nut "milk" years ago, once I got over my prejudice I realized that IMO they tasted better than the real thing... and since milk is meant for babies and is produced through the exploitation of a living creature (yup!), I'll take the impostor any day.
Answer to the Question, "WTF is Dairy Drink?"
To paraphrase Lt. Data, from a STNG episode:
"It's...it's...It's white."
Seriously, it's what they call something thinks which needs to sound vaguely wholesome, but which are loaded with artifical ingredients, and contain few if any natural substances.
Other examples: "Cheese flavored" anything, "Chocolate flavored" anything, "Krab" (which contains cheaper fish, but no crab). Anything which is intentionally misspelled is probably a fake food, or designed to fool people into thinking that it is the real thing.
I think you'll find that Google isn't a peer-reviewed journal either. Is it too much to ask that people that make inflammatory statements such as claiming that a food product commonly consumed by a large proportion of the world's population causes cancer should cite some evidence to back up that claim? I don't know why you would have a problem with that.
Maybe it's reconstituted evaporated or condensed milk. Sweetened condensed milk + water = dairy drink? Also known as recombined milk? It could also be what is refered to as butteroil. Ingredients that say modified milk ingredients may be butteroil. Butteroil is often used in ice cream manufacturing (the cheaper brands I believe) as it is cheap. Butteroil has a long shelf life and can usually be imported from other countries at far lower costs (no price controls) than domestic dairy products.
Good to see my home town on BoingBoing. Too bad it had to be because of "Dairy Drink"
I actually contacted the manufacturer to check the facts. They admitted that the label is misprinted. It should say "Diary Drink". The drink is manufactured from out-of-date diaries, pulped with water. There is little nutritional content but it does keep you regular.
I'm not sure that WIC assistance covers "bebida lactea." It'll cover cheese, soy beverage, and tofu as alternatives to milk but not this malk.
In Canada, when food-like products contain "modified milk ingredients" you not only don't know how the milk has been modified, but it's usually a signal that the original milk is from China or Eastern Europe.
It wouldn't surprise me if this weren't a similar scenario.
I'm not a baby cow or a sugar cane weevil so this is sort of gross.
Anyone remember Purple Cows? Milk with Grape soda? How about Milk+Grape+codeine? Purple Drank.
You know someone is working on Bacon Drink. Some cat in Portland or Birmingham is about to post a howto blog about making Bacon Drink right now.
It could be an attempt to recreate the flavour of the milk from the bottom of the cereal bowl. Even non-sugary cereals leave a flavourful melange at the bottom, as the milk has picked up some of the starches(?) from the grain.
It will ultimately fail because one of features of cereal milk is that it has warmed slightly which changes the mouth feel.
As one who is allergic to milk (ie it's the whole makeup of the cow juice and not just the sugars that make me ill) this is just... eww.
I'm not much of a fan of soy milk, rice milk or the rest of the fakey milkness out there, but really, making a pseudo-milk drink to confuse? Ugh.
Really, the instances of human intolerance to cow's milk has been growing (milk allergy is amongst the top 8 allergies, right up there with tree nuts and peanuts) and I feel that should be a sign that we should really look for some other source of beverage. No, I don't say this because of "think of the cows" as they're pretty much the tastiest vegetable available thanks to human intervention, but because it's just... bleh. Of course, just one gal's opinion.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/milk-allergy/DS01008
It may interest some to know. I am helping a friend with a flooring job in which she has chosen to use laminate hardwood (just as fake as "milk drink"). And there is a warning claiming that recent research suggests that wood-dust/saw-dust is a carcinogen and may cause cancer. Thankfully the warning is only directed to residents of Minnesota so it should still be safe to use wood or wood products where I live. Riiight. Two things about this. One, what sort of BS is that? (Like all the labels that say "this product has been found to cause cancer in the state of California.") I don't think they really mean that this product in conjunction with a specific location will kill you, just that some states/countries have higher testing standards (makes you wonder). Two, wood and wood-products are everywhere and we're just finding this out? WTF? My thought on this is that this is just their (not-so) clever way of covering their ass and that it's not the wood that is so dangerous. What is dangerous is all the other crap that they put into it such as arsenic, formaldehyde, hexane, etc, etc.
Better living through chemistry indeed.
The dairy drink sounds gross. It is interesting to me what people will eat and put into their bodies. I know that we are omnivores and have to eat to stay alive. However, we should watch more of what we put into our bodies. I have recently in the last five years become more knowledgeable about healthy, locally grown, and organic foods. It is so important to eat foods that are full of nutrition and to support local farmers. By eating these foods with high fructose corn syrup and other bad things, it is not only causing weight issues but it is just bad for you. We are putting all of these awful chemicals and hormones into our bodies, which sometimes cause significant health issues in the long run. Issues can occur that you would not think food causes, like behavioral issues. The hormones in food can affect your hormone levels in your body and cause imbalances.