Unfortunately beyond that, we didn't practice good nutritional eating skills in the house I grew up in. We didn't have an overabundance of candy or soft drinks, but we had plenty of cookies and other things. Until I got sick in high school, much of our food was fried or cooked in ways that weren't healthy.
I'm glad we didn't have all the candy that there is on the shelves today. I'm glad we didn't have the sugar flavored coffees and endless supplies of junk food. Heck, I'm grateful we didn't have "normal food you now buy" that is so adulterated with foodstuffs and ingredients which in my view, are not healthy. The food manufacturing industry wasn't quite as toxic as it is today.
Consume far too much sugar...
These days, everyone consumes far too much sugar. In fact, if people really stopped to look at how much sugar they consume in their day, maybe they would wake up. Maybe you're one of those people like I was that didn't pay attention to this. Don't just assume that the products you buy or the things you eat don't have added sugar.
Most people barely eat whole foods in a day. They miss out on the phytochemicals, the enzymes and the raw vitamins and minerals. They miss out on the live stuff that helps fuel the body and keep it healthy. The whole foods helps counteract some of the junk that we stuff into our body. Every day, we do a whole food smoothie and you can read about it in my blog post at Making Whole Healthy Food Smoothies.
Sure, you may have gotten this far in life and have no health issues that you know of at this moment. The more junk and sugar and non-whole food stuff that you consume, the more you're taking on a risk that could get life threatening. It really can. Just observe the increase in cancer and diabetes and other health ailments. So many of these things can be prevented or reduced, but once we get past that point of no return, then we play havoc with our lives.
Start paying attention to what you eat...
If you want to change the course of things in your life and really take care of your body, then start paying attention to what you eat. Know what is in the stuff you consume. Read the labels. Take notice of it.
Make little changes each day. Trying to change all at once can be overwhelming, but make it a goal that you replace something that is junk or full of sugar with something that is more healthy. Replace soft drinks and coffee with pure water, not some adulterated sugar flavored beverage that claims to be healthy.
Start making yourself whole healthy food smoothies using a Blentec Blender. I will tell you that this has been one of the best things we ever did. We don't get sick and we don't do flu shots. We have a much more responsive and healthy digestive system. We feel better and don't need to go to the doctor constantly for everything. Whole food smoothies are nature's medicine. If you truly care about your body, you will strongly consider doing this.
Take an inventory of what is in your cupboard and look at all the sugar amounts plus other ingredients. Now, I do realize the food manufacturers try to hide some of the ingredients and there are some I don't think they actually list on products. Be careful when reading the labels, because sometimes they are very tricky. Get to know what you consume.
We've only got one body in this lifetime. If we abuse it, it will try to keep up for a time. If we continue abusing our body, it will not be there for us. Minor changes in what you eat can make big differences. We all owe it to ourselves to be the healthiest we can be and we owe it to the ever increasing costs of health care to try to help ourselves, rather then just sit back and let our food kill us.
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