It seems that over the last couple decades we have become safety fanatics, protecting our children and ourselves from every possible hazard—with the exception of one very important one—the foods we put into our bodies. The irony, of course, is that diet presents perhaps the greatest risk to our well-being. Making the wrong choice, a choice we make three to five times every day, can undo all the good we will ever do in our lives to protect ourselves and our families.
The purpose of this Veg report isn’t to minimize the importance of safety, but to provide a tongue-in-check contrast that highlights our contradictory behavior when it comes to diet versus every other kind of action we take to increase of likelihood of our good health and well being.
So in the morning after you brush, floss, and mouthwash rinse, test your smoke detector, change your tap-water filter, wrestle off your child-proof safety cap to take a vitamin, set your home alarm, deadbolt your door, slip on your sunglasses, and seat-belt yourself into your automobile, open up your lunchbox to see if you might be undoing all of the good.