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Dashboard Feed My Articles Add Article Withdraw Referrals Settings Follow & Earn Logout Edit Article Save Draft Title Summary Content Heading 4H4»STRONG749 WORDS Grammar Error Found! 45 Gravitas Plus: Is your health food healthy?we were young we were told home food is healthy food and sometime around the 90s came a breakfast revolution corn flakes made their way to our tables this was the new healthy then came green tea it was followed by quinoa oats smoothies kale and seeds so many of them chia sunflower pumpkin flax sesame hemp they planted themselves on our dinner tables and cluttered it and slowly replaced traditional home-cooked meals that's okay we were told it is healthy virus pandemic soon healthy alone was marketable enough immunity became the new sales pitch so milkshakes ice creams everything started promising immunity hello and welcome to a doctor but here's what am logical my logic and experience tells me that we are being fooled in the name of health and wellness why don't you open your Google search for health and wellness you'll find 4.2 million posts the search word health leads to 122 million posts healthy 161 million posts healthy living million did you know that now has a category called protein that's the level of obsession with the idea of health all for being healthy what against is the flawed idea of health the one that google teaches us we are told slim is healthy and healthy is slim you see we humans have never been more insecure about our bodies than we are today and this mindset is not helping us the only thing it's helping is the market the global health and wellness industry is currently worth 4.2 trillion dollars it represents 5.3 percent of the global economic output how did it get here by selling our shortcuts to becoming thin sorry healthy let me give you an example green tea the highest selling wellness product as of 2019 the global green tea market was worth 18.4 billion dollars this tea is considered the elixir to health three cups of green tea a day you're super human you can burn fat prevent diabetes improve your brain functions and prevent cancer really if green tea could prevent cancer our cancer researchers would be vacationing in with a glass of fine red wine green tea can not make you lose weight trust me tried it what it can do is improve your metabolism which by the way almost any tea can black blue antioxidant properties well science says that tea are equally effective so should you drink green tea sure but don't count on it for losing weight here's what else you should not count on these products are such a fad wellness bloggers tell us the secret to becoming healthy what does science say gluten is a mixture of proteins like where is it found in carbohydrates wheat barley rye are any of these bad for our health no they aren't there is no need for us to buy products unless we have celiac disease or are gluten sensitive less than five percent of the population has problem with gluten 12 percent of the population has gone celiac disease affects roughly one percent of the population 20 percent is it helping in weight loss the answer is simple losing weight is a game of calories you need to burn more than you consume you need to reach a calorie deficit which you can by eating junk fried food pizzas cookies pecking duck as for health is not helping us it is taking away the average gluten-free product is 242 percent more expensive than their variant that contains gluten in three years the global market is expected to touch 6.47 billion dollars by 2027 it is projected to cross 43.65 billion dollars here's what else is fooling us these cartons most of us have had cow milk all our lives now we're being told that cow milk makes us fat Google influencers too are selling this idea why so that these alternatives find a place in your fridge the global almond milk market.

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