Healthy living is different depending on how you look at it.  There’s the ‘small picture’ stuff that happens to us all as individuals, and then there’s the ‘big picture’ stuff that happens to us as a society.  Here are two videos that look at both ends of the spectrum…

Watch What Happens Inside Your Body:  Processed Foods vs. Whole Foods  by Kimberly Johnson

We all know we should avoid processed foods. They often provide little or no nutrition and they can pack on the pounds.  Here is a video of what happens as the body attempts to digest processed foods illustrates that our digestive systems do not properly break them down.

The experiment looks at two people eating two similar meals: one contained processed foods (Gatorade, Top Ramen, and Gummi Bears) and the other of homemade versions (hibiscus drink, homemade broth with noodles and gummi bears made of juice).

Strefani Bardin’s TEDx Manhattan 2011 video gives us an inside look (literally) at how the body reacts to the different foods with a M2A camera.  The way the body processed and reacted to the foods are drastically different. Bardin pointed out that Top Ramen is mean to survive Armageddon and homemade noodles are “meant to be eaten.”  The experiment is a fascinating glimpse in to the human body and provides us with more proof that processed foods are not healthy!

A look at the Oregon Healthcare Website from John Oliver by John Oliver

To be an Oregonian is to be proud.  We’re proud of our environment, our politics, our music, our fashion, and everything else that goes into being an Oregoninan.  Until recently.  The flaming crash of the Cover Oregon website has given us all a black eye, which might be treatable if we had a functioning healthcare system.  The State wisely quit throwing money down that particular rathole and switched to the federal HealthCare.gov site, but not before John Oliver took a swipe at us in his new show.  It’s actually a pretty funny swipe, though, and well worth watching.  The fake commercial based on the Cover Oregon spots is especially funny, but watch the language!