"Beauty is only skin deep."
I heard this a lot as a preteen, when permanent teeth, bugged eyes and a pouty lower lip were way too big for my face and my lanky, skinny self weighed all of 68# in seventh grade. Twiggy was full figured compared to me.
Yup. That beautiful exterior is a trap and we all fall into it from time to time.
It's only human.
I eventually outgrew that awkward stage that lasted way too long, but a few days ago I found myself drooling over something that looked so damn pretty I wanted it.
I really wanted it, and my brain never skipped a beat as I exclaimed,
"Don't those look good?"
"Those" were a quart basket of super-sized, sweet, juicy, deep red strawberries.
They were fresh off the farm in a world class southern plantation farm store.
I even bent down to catch a whiff and they smelled as good as they looked.
It took everything I had in my all-organic-farm-being to, "Just say NO!"
I knew better.
I know better.
Reprogramming "the new normal" is tough.
Those gorgeous strawberries were a fake Fendi.
Truth is, residual analysis has tallied 54 different chemicals on those conventionally grown beauties, consisting of known carcinogens, hormone disrupters, neurotoxins, development and reproductive disrupters and honeybee toxins.
Strawberries are one of the fresh or frozen "dirty dozen" foods to avoid unless you buy organic.
Now you know better, too.
Boycott the new normal, because it is anything but normal.
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