Dr. Majid Fotuhi
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It's not processed and gone through several stages until you see it.
So realize that the food you eat makes a huge difference to your brain and don't put junk food in your mouth.
Unfortunately, it's very difficult.
I was in train station in New York and I wanted to get something to eat.
So I just walked around looking at restaurants and what they're people eating to see which one to go.
I couldn't pick a single restaurant to go to because they all look bad.
They all look bad.
And it's unfortunate.
Like if there is a fair and all the food from hot dogs to hamburgers to everything they sell is high sugar, high fat.
You can't find healthy food.
And I really feel horrible about that, that we have a system that cheap food dominates and cheap food is cheap because it's made with chemicals.
Most of it is not real food.
I feel horrible that a bag of grapes, I love grapes.
So you wanna buy a pound of grapes, it's $2 a pound.
So a bag of, a two pound bag of grapes is $4 or $5, which is comparable to what you would get for a sandwich, French fries, and a soda.
People who don't have financial means may be thinking like, I can't get a whole meal that fill me up,
versus something that can be only a dessert.
But unfortunately it is what it is.
And we just have to be mindful of how important it is to eat healthy and go through the extra pain of finding some food and avoiding junk food.
When I go abroad, when I travel,