You Rosacea sufferers have given me great hope! Last summer a dermatologist added this to the interminably long list of things wrong with me. It makes me feel so ugly! I can't wait to see if this will go away!!
Veganrocks, we live in
Oman. Processed foods aren't very popular here except with the other non-natives, and food here tends to be a lot closer to the source. Everything is pretty fresh - the chickens, for example, are very small because they aren't GMO or pumped full of weirdness. You buy in the store what was slaughtered today (well, I don't buy any of that anymore LOL - but it is a great example of how much more natural things are here). They love their olive oil, but are very happy to make my salads & hummus without the added oil. Nothing is fried.
As happy as I get to see more variety in the stores each year, I'm sad to think of a day (it is coming!) when the Omanis are eating mostly processed foods that we foreigners brought to them, and their health begins to suffer for it.
Last year we took a picture of a so-called journalistic article in the local paper extolling the health benefits of McDonald's. Because these things aren't required to be plainly labeled as "advertising" as they are in the west, companies can get away with this sort of thing. For now.