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Processed foods are nutritionally depleted. In fact I would venture to say many products being sold as food on the market today have little or no nutritional value at all. This includes white flour products, white sugar, fried foods, over cooked foods and baked goods.

When your diet consists mainly of processed and cooked foods you may be nutritionally depleted. Your body is getting a lot of substance or filler yet it isn't getting nutrition. Nutrition is the fuel to supply the body with needed energy, vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids. Without this necessary nutrition your body will eventually suffer either through obesity or some other disease.

I recently watch a couple DVD documentaries on the growing concerns about the Standard American Diet.  In these programs the responsibility was taken off the consumer and put right back on the shoulders of the food industry.

Although we do need to take personal responsibility for our health and what we put in our bodies, I couldn’t deny the message being sent through these documentaries.  The government subsidies for products like corn and soybeans were so high there was actually an over abundance of these products which is why food industries were saturating the market with high fructose corn syrup and soy products that yield little or no nutritional value. 
 
The subsidies for products government says we, as Americans, should be eating more of, such as fresh fruits and vegetables are very low.  This pushes our farmers into growing more highly subsidies crops.

The food manufacturers can sit in their posh offices and tell us they are only giving us what we want and take no responsibility for the advertising campaigns that brainwash young children into nagging their parents for food items that don’t support health.