Devin used to hate it when he came home from work and I'd been watching Oprah. Now this was the Oprah show 20 years ago. Her topics have changed a little in 20 years. I still catch her show occasionally. Today's topic caught my attention. Food 101. Now a lot of the experts she has on her show are, well for lack of a better term, extreme. I did think that Michael Pollan, author of several books addressing food in America, had some valid points.

Now I have to be careful saying anything about the food industry. After all, our bread and butter comes from one of the largest protein companies in the world.

The message I got from Pollan is that our food has too much stuff in it. What do I mean by stuff? Stuff that has ingredients that a third grader can not pronounce. He feels that we shouldn't be buying, or eating for that matter, food that your great-grandmother would not recognize. To me this means we should be eating whole foods. Foods that are close to their natural state. Now I'm not talking a macrobiotic diet or a raw food diet. I mean purchase those fresh fruits, vegetables, meats and grains and create your own meals. Granted, I like to cook. So maybe it's not fair for me to promote this. But you can put good, healthy food on your table without a lot of expense or time. We owe it to our children. Childhood obesity is at epidemic levels. We've got to take control. We've got to change.