This is a simple strategy that I use to make life long healthy changes in my lifestyle. The key to any change and decision making process is consciousness.
When it comes to changing your diet, it's crucial to understand the intended relationship between food and the human body. The simple yet incredibly complex idea that everything you consume (internally and topically) ultimately dictates or has a major influence on how the body functions.
There are only 3 things we as humans can not live with out: oxygen, water, and vital nutrition. Notice how I said nutrition rather than food. That's because what most people consider food, is not really food at all, but instead; disease causing, big pharma supporting, population controlling, toxic waste!
We are conditioned to eat this way our entire childhood. It's the reason all the sugary cereals are ground level. It's why they put toys in 'happy' meals. It's the flavored milks and processed foods for school lunches. It's teaching kids how to spell bologna before they can spell broccoli. It's the reason the health of our country has been on a rapid decline in the last 30 years. We have been listening to the FDA instead of Grandma (I don't have to tell you AGAIN what the D stands for do I?) The FDA taught us how to eat since we were children in public schools learning the food guide pyramid (a diet very closely resembling the ancient egyptian slave bread diet, that without the long rigorous hours of building pyramids, ultimately resulted in the same health epidemics we are experiencing now with the modern grain eating inactive lifestyle.)
More examples of childhood conditioning:
-Thinking Kool-Aid is good for you because it's made with water
-7 Up is a health drink when sick
-"Milk, it does a body good" because your favorite celebrity drinks it
-Ovaltine (hot sugar chocolate made out by commercials to be a delicious multivitamin)
-Lucky Charms (or any other kids cereal) are a good childs breakfast because they're fortified with vitamins and made with wheat
-Poptarts are a breakfast food
-Candy located conveniently at every grocery store checkout and gas station register
-The delicious taste of Pepto Bismal and TUMS, ok maybe I was just a weird kid.
It's time to stop eating like a child and start making educated health decisions as a conscious adult and learn the fundamentals of a natural, nutrient dense, vital life supporting diet.
Here are five steps to making educated changes to improve your lifestyle:
1st Step: Become a conscious consumer, gain awareness of exactly what it is you're eating and how detrimental these foods are to your health and well being by doing some easy research.
For Example:
What's in your child's McDonalds 'happy' meal?
Truth About High Fructose Corn Sugar! Check the Ingredients to your food, they put it in practically everything! Salad dressing, ketchup, soda, candy, fruit juices, etc.
Youtube can be a great resource if used with skepticism. Do a search for all the items I say to cut out in step 3 adding the words "Health detriments of...". Watch documentaries like "Food Inc", "Supersize Me", "Big Bucks, Big Pharma", "Fast Food Baby", "Fresh", "The Future of Food", etc. There is a lot of information at our disposal in the modern internet age, my suggestion is UTILIZE IT!!
2nd Step: Make the conscious decision to stop polluting your body with chemicals and other toxic inorganic materials and search websites like VegWeb for delicious recipes that are 100% natural and organic ingredients.
3rd Step: Pay close attention to how your mind and body feel when you cut out fast food, soda, cigarettes, alcohol, trans fatty acids, artificial sweeteners, inorganic pesticides/fertilizers, gluten, HFCS, dairy, junk food, GMO, fried foods, etc. Experience the enjoyment of mental clarity, improved energy, hormonal balance, and and overall improvement in your passion and love for a healthy and active life.
4th Step: Compare to previous way of life prior to change (depressed, anger, frustration, sick, beat down, tired, on prescription meds, unstable, etc). There should be no question that NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS BEING HEALTHY FEELS!
5th Step: Don't fall back into old habits because they're convenient and comfortable, make the commitment to improve your health on a daily basis, or be forced to accept the consequence of being ill. Why would you go back when you look and feel as good as you will?
