I will tell you what--our food, here in the United States, is so chemicalized. When I am out of the country, in Europe in particular, I feel 1000% better. They actually have real food. Dairy tastes like dairy. Produce is ridiculously fresh and natural. Bread? Forget about it. Divine. No rubber tires in the bread. The Euros don't do much right but food, they do it well.
Even beer. I was in the Czech Republic the past three weeks. I was drinking a beer every night with dinner. A big beer--if for no reason other than it was, like, $1 for an enormous beer vs a 6 oz Coke. I never got one headache. If I drink one beer here in the US---headache within an hour.
I am convinced much of our problems is due to chemicals. Overeating. Lack of movement.
I live in a small "city" in the south. We have several farmers markets that we can get fresh produce that was literally on the vine or branch yesterday. It tastes so much better than the processed stuff.
You can find good food here. Unfortunately, a lot of bad food has been pushed by the food Nazis. I was watching an old episode of Naked City with Mickey Rooney that was filmed in NYC about 1960, I’d say. He played a worker in a small supermarket and it was obviously filmed in a real supermarket. At one point, pertinent to the plot, there was a closeup of a steak - it had such marbling that I was drooling with not only gluttony but envy as well - where did all our thickly marbeled steaks go?! Where’s the cream on top of the bottle that we skimmed off circa 1960? Where’s did all the ingredients that Julia Child so happily displayed on her show go?