You might be hearing loads of information and talk about eating “live” or “real” food, also about avoiding processed or refined foods.

To make this a little easier for you to work out, to find out if it is a “live” or “real” food, you can ask yourself the following question, was it growing, running, flying or swimming before it was harvested for your consumption. Processed or packaged food does not fit into this criteria.  Therefore if it was one of the above, it is a “live” or “real food” and we should be eating more of these.

Food that looks further away from its natural state is less nutritious and contains more harmful chemicals.

Nature is grand and always manages to create perfection in all areas, including the food we need to live a healthy life.

All we need to do is to EAT these foods…….

The problem most of us have is that we have gotten in to the habit of eating quick and easy, processed foods that have little or no nutritional value.  You find yourself eating copious amounts of food, but your body is starving.  Sound crazy, how can that be, well your body is starving for nutrients so it keeps you feeling hungry, so you eat more, looking for the nutrients it needs, but if you just keep feeding your body processed foods, it continues to starve.

If eating organically is an option for you, the benefits are huge.  Eating organic food will increase the amount of nutrients available to your body. Organic contains 40-60% more nutrients than non-organic options. Also there is far less chemicals, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. This will help you eat less food to meet your body’s nutrient requirements.

If eating organically is not an option for you, still go back to the above and look for the “live” or “real” food choices.

This journey is all about making changes.  Changes about the way you feel and think.

For me, I ate soooooo much processed food.  To be honest, a piece of fruit  did not really appeal to me.  I did not eat very many vegetables and just made really poor choices.  It took a while for me to realise I could still eat great healthy food and it tasted fantastic.  For ages, I felt like I was being punished if I “had” to eat healthy, how crazy is that!!!!

Let me share something with you I only discovered the other day.  My 12 year old son said, freeze some grapes Mum, they are delicious.  I did and now I am addicted, they are so yummy, frozen grapes.  I would choose them over a chocolate any time.  Healthy food is delicious, just start spending some time to re-discover it.  Go out and find all the fresh seasonal fruits out there, chill them, cut them up and enjoy!

If you have children, it is the biggest gift you can ever give them.  To get them eating healthy great food, so they don’t start on the journey you have been taking, but that is a whole different post.

Yours in Health,

Rebel.

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