My OperaChoosing Whole Foods
Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:32:20 PM
First, let us take a look at the average person’s diet. It usually contains high amounts of processed foods, refined grains, sugar and fats. It is often difficult to avoid parties and other events that have such temptations - and a little nibble or two is challenging to avoid. But you don't want them as part of your everyday diet because we are learning that our health will suffer. Ingesting foods that provide little nutritional benefit can cause serious nutritional deficiencies, over the long haul and have immediate results.
(coffee + sugar = poor muscle tone prior to an athletic event or exercise & also has the high/low drop in energy for inadequate performance or long endurance)
Starting with organic, whole foods may seem a little overwhelming at first, I know. By my own experience in attempting to convert my husband all-at-once was disastrous. He panicked when we came back home from a wellness consultation for his Agent Orange rash. I started throwing out all the canned goods and wanted to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. He was so use to the way in which he grew up that this threatened his safely created world of what he knew. (He also saw money going into the trash, instead of the health investment we were about to make).
A whole foods diet is lower in fats & consists of a wide variety of different colored vegetables, fruits and grains; raw seeds, nuts and nut butters such as tahini, almond & pumpkin seed butter. Whole beans for protein and fermented; tofu, tempeh, & natto - that can even be in the form of shoyu, miso & tamari.
Antioxidants include vitamin C, beta carotene, vitamin E, and many cancer fighting substances called phytochemicals are found in whole foods & higher in organic fruits, vegetables & grains and are to be considered when wanting to protect yourself against the environment and helps with the anti-aging process.
In re-evaluating ones eating habits, approaching one's diet is important. It has to have sense of balance. When you start to have the majority of your meals with whole, fresh foods, then cravings will be minimized so when you want a sweet or two you won't be damaging your bodys' physiology, and lessening the onslaught of 'stressor' foods in your system.
When stressor foods are consumed it starts depleting the body of essential nutrients. These stressor foods consists of refined sugars (promotes tooth decay, creates hyperactivity or adds to those already challanged with this behavior, decreases immune functioning, increases the risk of heart disease contributes to obesity & diabetes), sodas (carbonated drinks & colas are high in phosphates that robs the body of necessary calcium which contributes to osteoporosis), enriched or refined grains & flours, pastas (removes the germ and bran which contain 90 percent of the nutritional content and does not get easily digested & sticks to the stomach lining which does not allow for maximum absorbtion from other foods) and also processed/hydrogenated fats - margarine & deep fried foods (causing trans fatty acis to interfere with metabolic absorption and tend to gather at adipose tissue (body fat) sites. They are difficult to illiminate from the body and are a lower quality of an energy source.
This may be a completely new experience for you, too. Relax, and make the transition slowly (you don't have this make major changes overnight like I attempted) but most of all have fun with shopping & investigating these new foods. Think of this as a new adventure!
By making small changes to your family's diet the transition will not only be more acceptable, their bodies will also be in harmony and not go through a too fast toxic foods cleansing.
Remember this it is never too late to start. It will be an amazing health & healing journey. You will begin to notice how quickly the poor health habits of your family will begin to disappear when good nutrition is established esp. when they begin to notice that they have more energy, mental clarity, and overall body strength with whole foods!
A lecture and demo at Whole Foods in Jenkintown, PA
(coffee + sugar = poor muscle tone prior to an athletic event or exercise & also has the high/low drop in energy for inadequate performance or long endurance)
Starting with organic, whole foods may seem a little overwhelming at first, I know. By my own experience in attempting to convert my husband all-at-once was disastrous. He panicked when we came back home from a wellness consultation for his Agent Orange rash. I started throwing out all the canned goods and wanted to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. He was so use to the way in which he grew up that this threatened his safely created world of what he knew. (He also saw money going into the trash, instead of the health investment we were about to make).
A whole foods diet is lower in fats & consists of a wide variety of different colored vegetables, fruits and grains; raw seeds, nuts and nut butters such as tahini, almond & pumpkin seed butter. Whole beans for protein and fermented; tofu, tempeh, & natto - that can even be in the form of shoyu, miso & tamari.
Antioxidants include vitamin C, beta carotene, vitamin E, and many cancer fighting substances called phytochemicals are found in whole foods & higher in organic fruits, vegetables & grains and are to be considered when wanting to protect yourself against the environment and helps with the anti-aging process.
In re-evaluating ones eating habits, approaching one's diet is important. It has to have sense of balance. When you start to have the majority of your meals with whole, fresh foods, then cravings will be minimized so when you want a sweet or two you won't be damaging your bodys' physiology, and lessening the onslaught of 'stressor' foods in your system.
When stressor foods are consumed it starts depleting the body of essential nutrients. These stressor foods consists of refined sugars (promotes tooth decay, creates hyperactivity or adds to those already challanged with this behavior, decreases immune functioning, increases the risk of heart disease contributes to obesity & diabetes), sodas (carbonated drinks & colas are high in phosphates that robs the body of necessary calcium which contributes to osteoporosis), enriched or refined grains & flours, pastas (removes the germ and bran which contain 90 percent of the nutritional content and does not get easily digested & sticks to the stomach lining which does not allow for maximum absorbtion from other foods) and also processed/hydrogenated fats - margarine & deep fried foods (causing trans fatty acis to interfere with metabolic absorption and tend to gather at adipose tissue (body fat) sites. They are difficult to illiminate from the body and are a lower quality of an energy source.
This may be a completely new experience for you, too. Relax, and make the transition slowly (you don't have this make major changes overnight like I attempted) but most of all have fun with shopping & investigating these new foods. Think of this as a new adventure!
By making small changes to your family's diet the transition will not only be more acceptable, their bodies will also be in harmony and not go through a too fast toxic foods cleansing.
Remember this it is never too late to start. It will be an amazing health & healing journey. You will begin to notice how quickly the poor health habits of your family will begin to disappear when good nutrition is established esp. when they begin to notice that they have more energy, mental clarity, and overall body strength with whole foods!
A lecture and demo at Whole Foods in Jenkintown, PA
