Does a body good?
April 19, 2008
Yesterday, I stopped at Whole Foods to do a little shopping. For those who don’t know what it is, Whole Foods is a grocery chain that offers ‘natural’ and organic foods (‘natural’ is by their own definition). I don’t go there often because it’s too expensive and I can generally get the things I’m interested in at Trader Joe’s for significantly less.
Normally, I just breeze through and pick up what I want, but I had a little time on my hands, so I wandered through the store. The thing that amazed me was the amount of vitamins and supplements they offered. One aisle – both sides – was completely full and another about half. Shelf after shelf after shelf of little bottles of stuff – a lot of which I’d never heard of.
And I couldn’t help thinking that it was rather ironic. Isn’t the point of eating a balanced diet of natural and organic foods supposed to be healthy? If that’s the case, why the need for all the supplements and stuff? 
What’s the point of spending more money to get Whole Foods ‘natural’ products if you need to spend even more money on probiotics, whey protien, flax seed, ground-up oyster shell… 
