Ian Somerhalder is fired up… and it’s not just because of all those leafy greens he’s been eating!
The Vampire Diaries alum took to Instagram on Tuesday to stress the importance of healthy eating after an apparent encounter at the grocery store that came about when, he says, another customer noticed him having a “strange” looking basket full of veggies.
The bizarre shopping experience, in which he claims other grocer-goers contended that the actor’s healthy basket was “a strange sight,” got the 40-year-old thinking of how the public regularly complains about “healthcare costs” yet “poisons itself daily with bad food choices.”
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What followed was an Insta-lecture about the war on health food, and an easy solution to how we could solve it. He wrote:
“Food is medicine and medicine is food. It’s a fact. If we want to see our healthcare system changed, be a healthier society- and it will. How does that sound? Logical right? I don’t mean to sound like a dick- or preachy but this is nuts: how is it, that grown professional people in a major American city have never seen a grocery basket full of normal&healthy foods that just all happen to be green or not processed.”
This crisis clearly wasn’t sitting well with him. He continued:
“We’re so far down the rabbit hole of packaged and ‘convenient’ foods that our society is paying the price&so is our future.No one in our government is helping us be healthier through education.Why would they?Sick people are GREAT for business…”
Looks like he’s got a basket full of red pills, too!
He’s not wrong, though…
The (grass-fed) meat and (organic) potatoes of his message — “If you want to look well, feel well and BE well- just eat well” — is very true. Ian also insisted that his mom raised him on “no money” and “mostly as a single parent,” yet they were still able to eat well and get an appropriate amount of exercise.
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Still, the V-Wars star is still glossing over some major issues; like how food insecure families don’t have much access to healthy food and how grocery stores in low income neighborhoods generally get lower value/quality produce. (Have you ever had a bag of carrots that taste like wine, Ian? It’s not great.)
His healthy heart is in the right place — but if he wants to expose the war on healthy food, it would serve him (and us) best to dig up ALL the roots of the problem.
Where do U stand on the issue? Do U think it’s super easy for everyone to buy healthy groceries? Vote (below) and read Ian’s full post!
[Image via Adriana M. Barraza/WENN]
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