No Artificial Ingredients

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. -- 2 Corinthians 4:2 NIV

Have you stopped to really investigate the list of ingredients that are going into the food we buy these days? I'll admit I have a sickness, but it has become a bit of an obsession of mine. Every time I see a Yahoo article about food or drink I can't help myself, I have to click and read immediately!

The other day I read one that said there are 39 ingredients listed on a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos. Three of them are needed for making corn chips. Of the 36 remaining ingredients, three of those are needed for making nacho cheese...so there are 33 unnecessary ingredients in that stuff they use to coat their chips. That same article told me that the same ingredient exists in a Taco Bell Mexican Pizza that you will find in sand and that is used as a hardening agent in concrete! Are you kidding me?

They put high fructose corn syrup in pretty much everything now because it is cheaper...and we wonder why we have a nation of diabetics. That crap is simply the leftovers from the processing of sugar cane into bags of sugar. They don't want to pay for the real thing, so they put a by-product into everything from soda to bread to the honey mustard dipping sauce for chicken nuggets (do chickens have nuggets and nobody told me???). Last time I checked, honey mustard is supposed to be honey and mustard...and that's about it.

Not only is it time to start watching what we buy and eating natural, unprocessed foods...and I promise you won't be disappointed in doing so...but we also need to weed the by-products and fake ingredients out of our lives. Our aim should be to never "...use deception, nor distort the word of God" because there is no way to improve on His Word! Just like we can't do a better job of nourishing our bodies with preservatives and leftover ingredients, we can't do a better job of nourishing our hearts and our souls with teachings and thinking that don't come from Heaven.