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.

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!

Longevity Recipe

From NY Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?_r=0      

Photo by Andrea Frazzetta

The Greek man above has an amazing story of health, healing, longevity, and defying medical hexing. To read his incredible story of being diagnosed by US doctors with cancer and given 9 months to live and his story of unintended healing success, click this LINK.

Longevity Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Human with desire for vibrant health

2. Real food: http://www.paulayoumellrn.com/whole-food-feeding-your-cells/

3. Garden and/or connection with amazing local farmers

4. Vibrant lifestyle habits in mind, body, & spirit

5. Update 2/28/21 Connection to a loving community

It is really this simple: feed the body real food; real food for body, mind, and spirit.

In a recent conversation with a client a comment was made to me when speaking about healing:

"People do not want to believe that food is the problem."

To which I replied:

"Food, real food, is not the problem. The problem is factory made food products brought to you by Nabisco, Kellogg, Post, Betty Crocker, Pepsico, Tyson, Kraft, Nestle... on and on the list of food product manufacturers goes.

Real food feeds body cells for vibrantly healthy regeneration. Food products detract from body cell health, depleting nutritional stores, and degenerating body cells contributing to degenerative diseases. (Degenerative diseases are a body composed of degenerative body cells.)

As a culture we observe the world and look to emulate those countries with a better health and longer longevity:

• The French Paradox

• The Okinawan diet

• Mediterranean diet

Importing their culture's specific foods is not the answer. Cultures who stick to their traditional diets: food grown locally & naturally and then prepared through time honored home cooking methods are the cultures who thrive with vibrant health. No importation of foreign foods needed. Simply grow food, team up with neighbors to share the different foods you have grown and raise, and befriend local farmers who grow real food in time honored and sustainable ways... keep those farmers farming through purchasing their food and supporting their work in this world. Your health will soar, local food economy will soar, life will be vibrantly good.    http://www.gardenshare.org/

Reverse these time honored practices and instead eat processed, packaged, factory made food products and your body cells suffer. To digest and get rid of these products (detox, methylate) your body must rob nutrients from your cells. Keep robbing from your cells and the cells degenerate further and further and degenerative diseases are now the norm. 

Cultures who have always eaten their locally available and traditional foods create pregnancies with healthy babies who are developing with a firm foundation of healthy body cells. Feed those newborn infants (and their breastfeeding moms) real food and the baby's bodies develop with cellular health intact. Continue this good food, real food trend through the childhood and teen years and you grow up young adults with their cellular health intact. A lifetime of real food, whole food eating and you have a natural prescription, a recipe, for vibrant health and longevity.

The same feeding process for embryos, infants, teens, and all humans in general with processed, packaged food products and the reverse happens: cells degenerate and degenerative diseases are the norm.

Take a peak at the current US population... As a whole, We are NOT vibrantly healthy people.

Junk Vs. Real... Vibrant Vs. Degenerative Body Cells

Bottom Line: Eat Real Food, Eat Whole Food and THRIVE for the Long Haul of Life!

Whole Health Lifestyle Choices create vibrant health & longevity, click to learn more.

To learn more about using herbs to contribute to cellular health and longevity Join my Herbs For Natural Health online course.

This is a no sweat, straight forward class on making simple herbal medicines and 3-5 herbs that enhance each specific body system for your vibrant health. 

I look forward to sharing this time honored, wise woman wisdom with you, Paula

Medicine or Poison? How will you LOVE your body cells?

I had a few comments about the healthy kid's birthday parties that went something like this... "Oh come on, shouldn't kids be allowed to have fun once in a while?"

My question was and always is this:  "When did fun become an opportunity to poison our bodies?"

When it comes to making decisions about health, healing, and disease prevention is not common sense a space to work from?

This is not a harsh mindset, in the least.  Read on for a holistic healer's reality check on cell nourishment.

Close your eyes and visualize a holiday or family celebration 200 years ago.  See and smell all the foods being served to celebrate the occasion or event.

All those foods ARE 100% whole, locally grown and produced, and in season!  There was absolutely no other way.

200 years ago Twinkies, gummy worms, soft drinks, Dorito chips, hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, etc., etc., etc. absolutely did not exist.

Visualize that party again.  People ARE having fun AND they are not filling their bodies with modern, factory made, food "products" poisons.  They are whooping it up, dancing, singing, merry making with friends, family, and neighbors all the while surrounded by whole, cell nourishing foods.

It is your choice with every fork full:  poison or nourishment?

Say NO to refined, corporate sponsored, factory made, cell degenerating products.

Say YES to healthy, cell enhancing, whole, local foods and party it up with the ones you love... all at the same time!

The possibilities are endless!  Focus on what you are inviting into your life:  real food and the vibrant health that comes from indulging in them!

Be Well.  Eat whole foods and make your body cells sing and dance.  Love yourself and other people; prepare them healthy food!

Paula

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