Make Your Choices Fresh

Patients often consult me with questions about their health. Many of the questions revolve colse to diet, water filtration, exercise, chiropractic, finding a good chiropractor, eating right, lifestyle, food supplements, obesity, vitamins, superfoods, even kombucha tea--basically whatever staggering to help them avoid sickness or recover from an illness.

What is health vs. Sickness? To me health is a balance in the middle of the stresses of life and our capability to cope with or adapt to that stress.

Many factors play a part in our farranging health. Some of these are:

Diet/food quality Lifestyle Air quality Water quality Stress (mental, chemical and/or physical) Genetics Environment
For the purpose of this description I want to focus on food quality. I'm often amazed that many habitancy give more attentiveness to the capability of oil they put in their car than the capability of food they put in their mouths.

I believe it's easier to be wholesome today than at any time in history (speaking for those of us in the Us). The reason? Fresh food is available 24/7/365.

I also believe it's easier to be unhealthy today for the same reason. In increasing many lead a sedentary lifestyle that, coupled with poor food choices, ultimately leads to poor health.

As a society we have been programmed to eat whatever is being promoted in the media. And the media moguls are only implicated about one thing--what's hot now. What's the newest fad? Many of the advertised foods are promoted as "healthy" because they are low-carb, or no cholesterol, or low-fat, etc., with tiny regard for the farranging health qualities they may contain. The coming "new thing" appears to be "antioxidant rich." I'm all for antioxidant rich food, just not highly-processed, colorful-plastic-packaged, assembly-line food that doesn't look like whatever in nature.

In this short description it's impossible to cover every aspect about healthier food choices. However, if tasteless sense prevails a sensible guide to food choices can be made.

You would have to live in a bubble to have not heard the phrase "don't eat processed or refined foods." Because, at least for the past consolidate of decades, an increased awareness about the hazards of very processed foods have been manufacture their way into the mindsets of the public. But what does this mean in practical terms in our microwave, quick-fix, gotta-have-it-now culture we live in when we are faced with a barrage of advertising promoting this low-fat treat or that low-carb something-or-other? When was the last time you saw a commercial promoting broccoli or carrots?

Have ever looked at a banana or orange in this way?

They come in their own wrapper. They're loaded with powerful, life giving nutrients, anti-oxidants and enzymes. They're environmentally friendly. They're neither processed nor refined. They're effortlessly available (for most of us) and economy than most other snacks.
For the purposes of this article, let's forgo the seminar of organic vs. Locally grown vs. Commercially grown foods. Let's just try to get everyone eating Fresh food for now.

People often argue with me that they can't afford to eat healthy. I disagree with this. I believe it's less expensive to make wholesome choices-both short term and long term. Precious examples of the long-term repercussions of unhealthy eating are all colse to us.

Another area I believe that will help many habitancy is to avoid grains. What was that? Did I just hear you gasp? What did he just say? Why, I've been told all my life to eat more grains!

Let me explain.

Nature in case,granted us with breathtaking ways of preserving foods for times of famine. Salt (sodium), sugar (carbohydrates), smoking, dehydrating, pickling, icy and of course grains. Our great country, in an endeavor to create warehouses of food that won't spoil, has done a great job of doing just that. We now have warehouses filled with foods that will last for years without spoiling.

I believe in nature we were meant to eat Fresh food when it was available and stored food when it wasn't. Our culture has essentially reversed this. Most of the habitancy eat stored food the majority of the time and eat Fresh food once in awhile. Doesn't it make sense that when Fresh food is available it should be chosen over stored or preserved food. In other words eat Fresh food the majority of the time and eat preserved foods in times of famine or lack. Why is it, with the abundance of effortlessly available stored foods on hand, do we as a society, tend to eat preserved foods the majority of the time and once in awhile eat something Fresh, like a salad, and call it healthy?

Here's some food for thought:

Much of the stored food today (cans, boxes, bags, etc.) are high in sodium or carbohydrate article as preservatives. Many of the health problems today can be attributed to diets high in sodium or carbohydrates. Many of the choices habitancy make today are of foods high in these preservatives.
So what does all this have to do with grains? Just this. Grains are high in carbohydrates too! Yes, I know they're good source of fiber as well as other nutrients--but so are Fresh fruits and vegetables. And I inquire the benefits of either with today's very processed grains. If you're battling a weight operate problem, you might want to take a look at your grain and total carbohydrate consumption. You know, farmers have known for years that grains are fattening. That's why they feed grains to their livestock.

Whole grains are meant to be stored and can be stored for many years. But most of the food being advertised as whole grain today, plainly cannot be whole grain. Why? Because freshly ground whole grains issue digestive enzymes almost immediately upon grist them open (processing) and will decompose and go bad within a day or two if these are not removed. The freshly ground flour is meant to be used right away. With contemporary day processing and refinement, these enzymes are removed allowing the flour/and or food products (think breakfast cereals and pop-tarts) the capability to sit on the shelf for months and years before going bad.

Don't be fooled by the "Fortified With" labels on the holder as a transfer for what's been removed from nature. Chemically injected vitamins that are out of harmony with nature's balance are no match for the abundantly rich nutrients found to be in harmony with nature in Fresh food. For an analogy, think about this. If you were mugged by a robber and he beat you up and took all your hard earned money, but gave you back so you wouldn't be totally broke, would you feel like you have just been beaten and robbed or would you feel fortified?

Here's an additional one problem. It's believed that our bodies were born with a finite capability to produce digestive (decomposing) enzymes, In other words, we can only produce so many in our lifetime. Whenever we consume foods that are deficient in digestive enzymes (they've been removed through processing) we deplete our digestive enzyme withhold if you will. This is one intuit I feel some elderly habitancy are on digestive aid medications. After many years of eating enzyme-deficient preserved foods instead of enzyme-rich Fresh food they have depleted their enzyme reserves.

The purpose of this description is to raise the awareness of the effortlessly available Fresh food choices out there vs. The preserved food many are eating and the wholesome benefits of eating Fresh food daily as opposed to eating preserved foods daily.

For those that would like to learn more about eating healthy, I very propose one of my beloved books written by Dr. Rex Russell, "What the Bible Says About wholesome Living."

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