Junk Health Food
My Advice: Be Wary... Be Very, Very Wary
I was inspired to write this after shopping in a health food store a couple of hours from home. I am a people watcher and a health educator. I can't help but notice the things people buy. The person in front of me at the checkout had a cart loaded with what I call Junk Health Food: [I observe from a space of love... wanting so badly to reach out and do some community education... but only when asked Paula, only when asked! :) ]
- organic, refined, white flour bread and rolls
- chips of every kind
- natural soft drinks and fruit juice flavored drinks
- organic, sugary cereals
- organic pop tart™ type toaster pastries
Be wary of anything that comes in a box, bag, can, jar, etc. If it is a packaged food product, made in a factory and not your home, be a savvy shopper and consumer. Just because it is sold in a health food store does not mean it is cell nourishing food.
My Advice: Be Wary... Be Very, Very Wary
I was inspired to write this after shopping in a health food store a couple of hours from home. I am a people watcher and a health educator. I can't help but notice the things people buy. The person in front of me at the checkout had a cart loaded with what I call Junk Health Food: [I observe from a space of love... wanting so badly to reach out and do some community education... but only when asked Paula, only when asked! :) ]
- organic, refined, white flour bread and rolls
- chips of every kind
- natural soft drinks and fruit juice flavored drinks
- organic, sugary cereals
- organic pop tart™ type toaster pastries
Be wary of anything that comes in a box, bag, can, jar, etc. If it is a packaged food product, made in a factory and not your home, be a savvy shopper and consumer. Just because it is sold in a health food store does not mean it is cell nourishing food.
WHY?
1. Most food products are manufactured for the corporate bottom line, not your health.
This means that the cheapest ingredients go into the "product" so the company manufacturing this product can make the highest profit margin. Profits before people is the name of this game.
Now keep in mind, there are companies out there creating quality products. Real food, in packages, that are healthy alternatives to what you would make in your own kitchen. These products are sold on the shelves of health food stores, food coops, and in the healthy section of grocery stores.
BUT, just because a product is on the shelves in these healthier places, do not assume that the product is healthy (see below on being self-responsible). Even products you have found to have healthy, 100% whole food ingredients; be aware... the ingredients can be changed. Big corporations love to buy out these smaller "health conscious" companies because the healthier products are money makers. Most people do want healthy food and healthy bodies so the sale of organic, whole, non-GMO foods has soared. Corporate America wants their piece of this pie. But... as soon as a larger corporation owns the food, the food label, the product suddenly changes. Cheaper ingredients are now used to make the very same products. This "ingredient switch" pads the bottom line of the large corporation, not your health!.
You have to be the responsible one in the grocery store... this means reading labels very, very carefully. (This is what I teach in my book and in my workshops; self responsibility around your own health restoration... you healing you!) Read the ingredient list, on anything you are contemplating purchasing, that comes in a package. Your health, your life, depends on this.
Ask yourself questions about the product:
-Is every ingredient in the product a whole food? (organic? non GMO?)
-Could you assemble all the ingredients, in your own home, to make this same food item?
Answering yes to these questions? Then move forward, feeling comfortable that the food will nourish, not deplete, the health of your body cells. Depleting body cells means you are depleting you; creating degeneration in your body.
Answering no to these questions? Put the "product" back on the shelf; your health and your life depend on this.
2. Most manufactured products are full of fake stuff:
Fillers (to enhance textures without using real food, i.e. whole food ingredients. MOST Greek yogurts are one of these filler enhanced foods, read more here: 13 Health Foods That Are NOT So Healthy),
Preservatives,
Artificial colors and flavors,
Fake sweeteners,
GMOs
Fake fats...
the list of fake things, that go into factory made food, is never ending.
Bottom Line: Fake ingredients, factory made substances, do not belong in the human body. They do not create cellular health. Cellular health IS created when we eat whole food.
Fake Food vs Real Food
Have I convinced you to nourish each and every one of your beautiful body cells with 100% whole foods?
Be well; feed your body well. You will lose weight, feel better every day, and restore your body's natural health!
Comparing Your Health To An Antique Table
Antique table and your health? What could they possibly have in common?
You Do NOT Need Me is another thought I had for this post's title. What possible connection could these 2 titles have? I will get back to all of this and hopefully the concepts will be clear.
To heal your body from most of the ills we suffer all one has to do is switch to a whole food diet. Eventually the body will recover its health:
- your gut flora will return to normal,
- blood chemistry profiles stabilize to normal,
- body cells recovery their health,
- hormone levels balance,
- DNA & RNA repairs itself,
- and the list goes on & on.
All of this repair stuff happens just by feeding your body real food*.
Most packaged food stuff, made in factories, is loaded with
- artificial ingredients
- genetically modified organisms
- preservatives
- chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, and
- so many more unnatural ingredients that were never meant to be part of your body's cellular health.
Each time we eat this unnatural food stuff we are chipping away at our body's health. The food we eat is responsible for the health of our body cells. Doritos and soda (or any packaged foods with fake ingredients) every day and you are seriously chipping away at your innate health.
Real Food = Real Healthy Cells
Crap Food = Crappy Sick Cells
If I was to take a vegetable peeler and every day chip a tiny bit of my antique table away what would my table look like? After days, weeks, months, and years of slowly chipping away on my table, the table's value, beauty, and function would suffer.
The same thing happens to your health every time you chip away at it with food stuff that nature never intended us to take into our bodies under the pretense that it is real food. You read about this in my 80/20 Eating Plan Deception. You are chipping away at your health and your innate beauty, function, and vitality suffers.
So why is it You Do Not Need Me (possible post title #2) and my Wise Woman Nurse educational services?
Just eat real food. It is that simple.
Feed your body food that nature gave us and avoid the stuff made in factories. If you must buy some factory made foods: read labels and make sure every ingredient in the product is natural, unrefined, non GMO, etc.
Be good to your body cells. If you want to speed up the healing process... there are many ways to aid the body in recuperating from a non-whole food diet. This is where I can help you weave a bit of magic and make the whole food eating and healing plan happen faster, accelerate the body's return to health!
Toss out the junk food and the vegetable scraper.
Save your body cells and the antique table today!
*real food: food in its whole state
1. If a plant based food, the food is grown:
- as it would have grown in nature
- without GMO seeds
- without use of agricultural chemicals: fertilizers pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, etc.
- preferably with crop rotation and biological methods of maintaining soil fertility
2. If an animal based food, the animal is raised:
- in open space free to roam, eat, play, love, and live as closely as it would have if it was a wild animal
- not fed unnatural foods (grains and soybeans to cows, goats, pigs, etc.)
- no steroids, antibiotics, growth hormones, and/or agricultural chemicals
- treated with loving care by the farmers
Because I have used the words... "You CAN heal your own health problems," I will add this disclaimer to CMA. Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Farmacology: What Innovative Family Farming Can Teach Us About Health and Healing
A FOOD CHAIN RADIO RELEASE FROM METROFARM.COM
Some say essential nutrients went missing when we civilized our food, and we pay for that loss with sickness and disease. This leads us to ask…
Can farming return the nutrients missing in our food?
Saturday, March 22nd at 9 AM Pacific, the Food Chain Radio show with Michael Olson hosted Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect and Farmacology, for a conversation about food, nutrition, and human health.
Topics include why some primitive cultures were healthier than many civilized cultures; what happened to food when we civilized it through agriculture; and whether the nutrients we lost through agriculture can be regained through agriculture.
I invite you to listen to the recorded show on your radio, computer or mobile device: Food Chain Radio #961
This is the direct link to the 42 minute and 38 second show: http://metrofarm.com/assets/podcasts/2014-03-22_961bmissing.mp3