| Everyone has heard the saying," You are what you | | | | vegetables, produce in season and grown locally will |
| eat." When we are younger we can eat unhealthy | | | | have the highest nutritional content. |
| foods and seem to get by for a while, but as we | | | | Plant a small garden. If you don't have a yard, plant |
| grow older, our unhealthy lifestyle will catch up with | | | | tomatoes, herbs, or small vegetable plants in |
| us in the form of illness and disease. Most of the | | | | containers. |
| foods you buy from the grocery store are | | | | Use only non-toxic cleansers and compounds. |
| processed, meaning they are manufactured in a | | | | Avoid processed foods, a processed food is anything |
| factory and most often contain littler nutritional value. | | | | altered from it's natural state and packaged in a box |
| Even though companies will enrich certain foods or | | | | or packaging that has ingredients you can't |
| put labels that they are all natural, nothing is better | | | | pronounce. |
| than the real thing. Real food is nature's food and it is | | | | Manage stress, practice some for of meditation each |
| what we need to build healthy bodies that are | | | | day. |
| disease free and full of energy. | | | | Eat three meals a day; don't skip meals. Make a |
| Real foods consist of most everything on the outer | | | | protein smoothie to replace any meals you may skip |
| aisles of the grocery store. They include fruits and | | | | Eat less, but more quality foods. |
| vegetables, low-fat meats, and dairy products. | | | | Invest in a juicer. |
| However, all real foods aren't equal because most of | | | | If time permits, cook majority of meals on the |
| our the real foods we eat are laced with pesticides, | | | | weekend, this lends to quick meal preparation. Also, |
| injected with growth hormones, or raised in | | | | prepare salad items in advance by placing individual |
| unwholesome in environments. Therefore, on top of | | | | items (onion slices, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc) in |
| purchasing real foods, you want to buy organic fruits | | | | baggies or Tupperware for quick retrieval. |
| and vegetables and meats or poultry that are | | | | Fill up on health foods before going to parties or |
| farm-raised, cage-free, and without preservatives | | | | other events where food will be served. |
| and other toxic substances. | | | | Eat on a smaller plate. |
| Below are some more health tips that will help you to | | | | Make enough for dinner so that you can take it the |
| eat more nutritiously so you can maintain your health | | | | next day for lunch. |
| for years to come | | | | Listen to your body. |
| Get enough sleep, at least 7 ½ hours per night. | | | | About Soy- We have been bombarded with the |
| Think about how can you make bedtime a daily | | | | positive effects of soy on lowering heart disease and |
| ritual? Eat organic fruits, vegetables, and meats. It is | | | | reducing systems of menopause. However, if you do |
| better to pay a little more for these and eat less of | | | | a little research on soy, first you will find that most |
| them than eat foods that are toxic to your body. | | | | soy is genetically modified and second, it inhibits our |
| Most conventional produce are sprayed with harmful | | | | thyroid gland from producing necessary hormones |
| pesticides and animals that provide our meats are | | | | and could contribute to hypothyroidism. Therefore, if |
| injected with hormones and preservatives. If possible, | | | | you use soy, use it in moderation. |
| purchase meats that come from graze fed animals or | | | | Don't eat when you are not hungry, stop when you |
| cage-free chickens. Buy locally grown fresh fruits and | | | | are 80% full. |