Maria Rickert Hong
Eat like your grandma did, and your health will improve!
I think we've gotten away from knowing what real, fresh food tastes like. Chef Jamie Oliver is famous for going into schools and asking children to name the vegetables he holds up. Very few can correctly identify them because they never eat them!
If we have to detoxify from the processed food that we eat, then our bodies are not able to properly detoxify. Eating whole, fresh foods made from scratch ensures high nutrient levels.
"The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children" is a book that shows us how food additives contribute to declining mental health. Your brain and your child's brain are starved for nutrition, and they're not getting it if your "food" comes with a long list of chemicals in the ingredients.
The Feingold diet for ADHD shows how all of those pretty blues, yellows, reds and other colors in our kids' fun foods can cause spaciness or hyperactivity, especially in children. Artificial flavors and preservatives, especially BHA and BHT, do the same. Food isn't fresh if it's got these ingredients in it.
That plastic lining on the inside of your canned food is doing more harm to your health than you think, as it can lead to hypothyroidism and gunk up your cells' mitochondrial dysfunction. Plus, the food is definitely not fresh!
Dr. Annemarie Colbin, author and founder of The Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, says that freezing fruits and vegetables ruptures the cell walls of the plants, thereby reducing the nutritional value of the food.
Have you ever noticed how much better food tastes when it's homemade or made by your mom? Some people think it's love that makes the food taste better.
Robert Lustig teaches how harmful sugar is to our health. I know you've read that statement before, but did you know that sugar is the most inflammatory food there is AND it feeds cancer?
I know you're scratching your head at this one. It took me a while to wrap my head around it, especially because many "healthy food" magazines tout the benefits of canola and other vegetable oils. The Weston A. Price Foundation shows us how the extreme processing of these oils leads to rancid oils containing high amounts of inflammatory free radicals. Grandma didn't eat these oils, and neither does my family!
Compared to "healthy" fast food alternatives, fresh, homemade food has more nutrients plus the love you put into it!
Nutritional healing from symptoms of ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, asthma, autism/PDD-NOS, autoimmune disorders, neurological disorders, GI disorders & fatigue.
