Healthy Eating

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Shouldn't we be getting all of our nutrients from food? The answer: sort of. Problem #1 – the “food” that most of you are eating…is literally killing you. The normal American diet is anything but healthy eating. The rate of obesity is over 60% now, caused for the most part by excessive consumption of empty calories.

When you eat nutrient poor foods your body will keep asking you for more food in its attempt to supply necessary nutrients. If you eat what the powerful industrial interests have advertised to you and have created unconscious desires in you that you follow without thinking, you will be consuming mostly this, according to government statistics:

1. Whole cow’s milk

2. 2% milk

3. Processed American cheese

4. White bread

5. White flour

6. White rolls

7. Refined sugars

8. Colas

9. Grain fed ground beef

The USDA (US Department of Agriculture) assessment of the top nine “foods” consumed by Americans clearly illustrates our pattern of over-consumptive under-nutrition. Apparently we live on dairy, white flour, white sugar and ground beef! Did you know that Cola was a food group? Who lobbied for that?

We might think that dairy foods are a good thing; however they are full of saturated fat and, for many people, the cause of allergies, sinus problems, ear infections, bone loss, autism, Type 1 diabetes, and chronic constipation. Milk is also the number-one cause of anemia in children from intestinal blood loss.

The Federal Trade Commission recently asked the USDA to look into the scientific basis of the claims made in the milk mustache ads. Their panel of scientists stated the truth clearly: Milk does not enhance sports performance, there is no evidence that it is good for your bones or even prevents osteoporosis (and in fact, the animal protein in milk may cause bone loss), and it is linked to prostate cancer and heart disease, not to mention the digestive problems experienced by 75% of the population who are lactose intolerant.

After dairy foods, the most common foods are high glycemic index white death poisons – either sugar or something that will quickly turn into sugar when they hit your stomach – white bread, white flour, white rolls, refined sugars and colas fueling the epidemic of insulin resistance.

Lastly, there is grain-fed ground beef, very high in saturated fat, hormones, antibiotics and xenobiotics as well as the occasional toxigenic E. coli! No wonder over 85% of Americans have one or more degenerative diseases by the time they turn 65. These foods have a very low Nutrient to Calorie Ratio (NCR). Essentially they are nutritionally empty calories. Believe it or not, the more sugar you eat, the more vitamins you need to process that sugar.

The statistics show that we are consuming excess calories. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 1999,282(16): 1579 – Caloric Imbalance Public Health) revealed that 50% of US adults are overweight, and 22% are obese (>30lb overweight). A recent update of that study found that in just a few years, the obesity rates increased from 22% to 30% and the overweight population increased from 50% to 65%. This exponential growth is frightening. Our caloric intake from 1976 to 1996 increased explosively. Men increased their caloric intake by 2,239 calories a day and women increased by 1,646 calories a day.

This is over and above what they were already eating, nearly doubling their daily caloric intake. In 2000, Americans spent $110 billion on fast food. This exceeds the amount spent on higher education, computers or new cars. On any given day, about 25% of Americans visit a fast food outlet and the typical American eats three burgers a week from one of 30,000 fast food outlets.

Healthy Eating Starts With Real Food

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Lets start with breakfast. Get HEALTHY chicken and beef sausage and bacon and cheese from Slanker Grass Fed Meats. Get HEALTHY eggs from Angels Acres. When it comes to breads and cereals, only choose ORGANIC, SUGAR-FREE and be sure they do not contain bad oils like canola, safflower or sunflower oil. Sourdough or sprouted would be my top choices. Organic butter, organic sugar-free jam. All vegetables and fruit must be organic. Ditch the fruit juices. Ideally, you would consume a Superfood Powder Blend, like Iridesca.

For lunch, HEALTHY chicken, beef and cheese from Slanker Grass Fed Meats. HEALTHY bread, as stated above. All vegetables and fruit must be organic. All condiments must be organic, sugar-free and NOT contain bad oils like canola, safflower or sunflower oil. Once again, you would consume a Superfood Powder Blend, like Iridesca.

For dinner, same as lunch. I haven’t listed pork for a couple reasons. One, there is no way to know if the animals have been injected with MRNA vaccines. It’s standard industry-wide, Slanker Grass Fed Meats are NOT, but pigs are dirty animals and it’s just not a protein I’m comfortable with. I haven’t listed seafood because of the overwhelming toxicity in most waterways. Mercury and heavy metal contamination has ruined seafood. Do NOT eat farm-raised seafood ever (they are fed junk) and never eat any shrimp (bottom feeders).

Clean chicken and beef, everything else organic (guarantees that it’s non-gmo and not slathered with Round Up), no sugar or sugar substitutes, no unhealthy seed oils and daily servings of Superfood powders – that’s the first step to healthy eating. The next step is fixing your water.

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