I was taught to eat freshly prepared foods and an absolute” No No” to packaged or microwave food with a shelf life of two years for example. My Uncle would call ready made foods “Dead Food” All natural nutrients were dead in packaged foods and the artificially added nutrients that the labels had boasted came with added risk to an already starved body of natural living foods.
I soon grew a fast interest in the importance of natural foods when I notice the rapid decline in home cooking in favour of junk food. It was quite simply "Taste over Health" when the lifestyle of eating out was no longer a luxury for the well off, people excited themselves with their new found status and forgot the importance of what our Mama taught us.
Being a young woman exploring my choices I soon became aware of the lifestyle in the western world at least where were facing obvious decline in health and mind. I was determined not to go down that road.