Recently I moved to Austin, TX where the food scene is very good. You can easily find vegetarian, healthy, organic foods. Food here tastes like food.
I visited my mother in Phoenix over the past weekend and was dumbfounded at what people in Phoenix eat and what these crappy chain restaurants serve, its all I saw out there. How are people who live in places that are not forward thinking ever going to be able to make good food choices when its nothing but processed, misleading junk everywhere??

Thanks Glenn for saying what I have been saying for a few years now!!

In fact I am so upset about what people are eating that I co-founded a non-profit that is aimed toward getting salad bars in schools.

We have got to re-teach people how to eat.

We want vitamins and nutrients in our food and we want less chemicals and no genetically modified ingredients!

Glenn Pendlay

Why? Well it started in Guatemala last week. I was eating in the weightlifting chow hall with Donny Shankle and thinking about the food. The meal that day included a sort of salad. Tasted like it had some kale in it, had some green beans, some corn, lettuce, and bits of bacon. There were diced up potatoes, cooked with onions. Diced up carrots that most people seemed to be mixing up with the potatoes and onions. And chicken. Not fried chicken, just chicken. It was representative of most of the meals, mostly vegetables and meat, some potatoes or rice. Nothing fancy. I remarked to Donny that it would be hard to overeat and get fat on such food. Not that it wasn’t good, it was tasty enough, but it was nothing you would want to go on eating once your hunger had been satisfied. And it wasn’t calorie dense, mostly…

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