After realizing she was sensitive to gluten, she switched to gluten-free processed foods, thinking they were healthier.

 

A lot of people do this. “Well, it says gluten-free,” or sugar-free, or grain-free, or the ultimate kiss of death, fat-free, so it “must be healthy.”

 

Nope, not necessarily. But food manufacturers count on you believing it is “healthy” in order to sell it to you.

 

Processed food is processed food, no matter what packaging the manufacturer slaps on it.

 

The Rebel who shared that she switched to gluten-free processed food also said that she gained weight and still got headaches, because these gluten-free processed foods were stuffed with sugar and other crap to make them palatable.

 

What’s crazy is that this is hardly the first time food manufacturers have “misled” you into thinking crappy food is healthy.

 

It happened BIG time in 1977, when the low-fat craze kicked in. 

 

Basing their decision on debunked, cherry-picked studies about the cause of heart disease, the government issued low-fat dietary guidelines and the bullcrap food pyramid. Everyone began panicking about the fat in foods.

 

The food industry leapt into action, stripping the fat out of ALL kinds of food.

 

But they weren’t dummies. They understood that when you strip the naturally occurring fat from food, it tastes AWFUL.

 

So in order to make their food-like products palatable, they replaced fat with sugar, chemicals, fillers, and processed carbohydrates.

 

And so began the health and obesity epidemics we endure today.

 

It’s interesting how the fitness craze came on the heels of the low-fat craze. Calories in, calories out…a calorie is a calorie…all that nonsense.

 

I call it nonsense because, if exercise and low-fat eating are the answer to your weight problem, why are we getting fatter and fatter and sicker and sicker?

 

When you look at it like I’ve just described, the answers are obvious:

 

1) No fat is not healthy.

 

2) You cannot out-exercise a crap diet.

 

(Adding: You cannot out-Ozempic a crap diet, either. You might lose weight, but if you eat like crap, you’ll feel like crap, whether you take Ozempic or not. And you’ll gain it back if you don’t learn how to interact with food differently than you are now.)

 

It’s a lot to wrap your mind around. I get that.

 

But the evidence is all around you. The state of our health and weight is worse than ever. It didn’t “just happen.”

 

Eat real food, drink water, and sleep, and you’ll be ahead of 95% of the population.