Let It Go

Sometimes you just have to let go.
When things are not going your way, or when they seems to be going down right wrong, we have a tendency to try our best to get them back on the right track. While this may seem like the right thing to do, it never seems to work.
I was recently reminded of this. I spent two days trying to right something that had gone astray to no avail. Once I finally realized that I was putting all my energy into this futile task, I released it and changed my activity. Wouldn't you know that just an hour after this, the problem righted itself?! Amazing.

The morale? Do what you can, then let it go. Things will work out the way they are supposed to.

The Three Forms of Plain White Sugar

White sugar is something that almost all of us consume everyday, whether we do it intentionally, or it is in the prepackaged food we are eating. Although there are plenty of forms of sweeteners in both our packaged food choices and simply packaged for us to buy, I only wanted to mention plain old white sugar today.

Do you know that plain white sugar can be made from three different sources?




I am pretty sure that everyone is familiar with cane sugar. This is made from from sugar cane. It is fascinating to me that something that basically looks like a stick could give us something so sweet. I grew up thinking that all sugar came from cane. I was amused when I found out it wasn't.

Do you know that white sugar can come from beets? This is the one I find most amusing! How can something so pure and white come from a red root grown in the ground? Now I know that root vegetables are among the sweetest, and hold the highest sugar content making them act like a starch in our body rather than a vegetable. Nice to know when juicing.. adding a root vegetable can make a very sweet drink!

And my least favorite, do you realize that not just HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is made from GM (Genetically Modified) corn, but it is also the most commonly used sugar in the industry? It makes sense that it is used in various forms as a sugar, since it acts like a sugar in our body. Corn is really not the vegetable you were taught it was! While we may have a greater chance of being aware of whether our corn on the cob was genetically modified, there are no restrictions for labeling it on any food.

How often do you eat something, or serve it to your family, that has sugar in it? Do you know what kind of sugar was used? Do you know if it was genetically modified? Wouldn't you like to know?

To me, this is just another way that our freedom is being taken away, one cell at a time.. so small we don't notice it. Personally, I would like a choice on whether to eat genetically modified food, a choice on what type of sugar I consume, a choice on whether my food is raw or cooked when I eat it, and a choice on how it was cooked and when.. what about you?
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments!