The American diet is a disaster, right? Fast food, take-out, frozen dinners, processed processed processed. Many people feel they’re virtuously eating healthy when they eat a microwaved frozen vegetable that comes in its own “cheese” sauce.
This is not healthy and you know it. MSG, artificial flavors, salt, fat, sugar, corn syrup, artificial sweeteners—they’ve all done a number on your taste buds. Your taste buds are desensitized, overwhelmed, and overstimulated. It’s like a porn addiction—the longer you sit in your basement watching porn and avoiding human beings, the more hardcore and intense of stimulation you need, and the less attractive the kind, wholesome girl with a crush on you becomes. Plain steamed broccoli has a crush on you, and you’re ignoring her.
Junk food is a gateway drug. To more junk food.