HOW DO I KNOW IF THIS FOOD IS GOOD FOR ME?

You are at the food store. You see an item that catches your attention, and you pick it up from the shelf. You wonder if it is good for you like it says on the label, so you read the... which list?
Always, always check the ingredients of anything you buy in a package. Why? Because ingredients are what makes any food nutritious and good for you, or... nutrition-less, bad for you, unhealthy for your body. If you check the nutrition label, and forget to check the ingredients, you may well end up with stuff like Fruit Loops, Frosty Flakes and potato chips in your shopping cart, thinking all the while that you are buying the healthiest and best for yourself and your family just because the nutrition label looks so good and ''healthy''.
One day I passed by a McDonalds, and decided to go inside to ask for the food ingredients list. Not available. They only have ''nutrition facts''. If you want ingredients, you have to go online to find them. So I did. These are the ingredients for Chicken McNuggets, which kids love and many parents consider to be a pretty harmless food (Perdue Chicken Nuggets, by the way, are just about the same):

Chicken McNuggets®/Chicken Selects® Premium Breast Strips/Sauces 

Chicken McNuggets®: 

White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, 

dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, extractives of rosemary).  Battered and breaded with: water, 

enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking 

soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch.  Prepared in 

vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.

TBHQ is short for butylhydroquinone: BUTANE. That is correct, lighter fluid.

Dimethylpolysiloxane is silicone. The stuff that spatulas and breast implants are made of.

Maybe it is worth checking our food label ingredients after all... because it is their quality and freshness that will give you health and life. 

As for the nutrition facts, one thing is for sure: you will not be getting much health or nourishment from the butane, sylicone, hydrogenated oils, sodium acid pyrophosphate or dextrose... not to mention the antibiotics and growth hormones in the ''white boneless chicken''... only the best for growing children.