What's On Your Plate?

Many things we eat regularly are harmful to our health. Paul offers the same warning for the spiritual life.

What's on your plate these days?

Chances are that your first response to that question had little to do with food and a lot more to do with how full your calendar and "to do" list are. It's amazing how Americans have become so obsessed with food that we even envision our lives as a dinner plate!

What we seem less obsessed with, however, is what we put on our dinner plates in the first place. Despite an epidemic of obesity and numerous warnings that our plates are full of harmful foods, Americans still tend to consume what's bad for them. In fact, our frenetically busy lifestyles might be the precise reason we tend to eat the worst kinds of foods — those that are fast, cheap and easy.

Flip through that health magazine at the doctor's office while you're waiting to find out what's making your stomach churn, and you're likely to find a list of foods that are making you sick in the first place.

Everywhere we look, warnings describe our unhealthy eating habits. Look up "harmful foods" ...