Life is about choices. We make them all day every day. Even if you take everything else away from me, I still get to choose my attitude. I get to choose the meaning I assign my life. No one can ever take that basic choice away from me. Most of you reading this choose the food you eat, the way you spend your time on a daily basis and the things you put into your mind and body.
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Please stop reading now if you are 100% satisfied with your health and fitness the way it is today because the information that follows is radical and confronting.
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Most health problems today stem from one simple thing: we eat too much and too much of the wrong things. Cancer, inflammatory diseases (CFS, Fibromyalgia), Heart disease, diabetes are often diseases of choice. Now there is a caveat: there are diseases like Juvenile Diabetes that are either hereditary or environmental. These are not the diseases I am talking about. We have been conditioned to believe that eating 6-11 servings of grain, pasta, potatoes and corn is the road to good health. This is flat out wrong. And all you need to do is look around you at the epidemic of obesity to prove it. The food pyramid that many of us grew up believing was fashioned by large food manufacturers with complicity from the USDA and the FDA. Here is a link to an article that helps explain some of this: http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com/2009/12/the-fatally-flawed-food-pyramid/
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The bottom line in this area is that the food companies, the FDA, the USDA and even the AMA do not have your best interests at heart. The food companies want you to buy more of their processed food so they can make more money which will keep their shareholders happy. The USDA and FDA accept money for research and people from the same companies. And the AMA must just not know better because every recommendation we have gotten for the last 40 years has resulted in a fatter and fatter America.
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So what are you going to eat? Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Simple, really. Did you notice there is nothing there that says dairy, bread, pasta, anything in a can or a box, or cereal? Dairy should be avoided. Grain should be avoided. More and more studies are coming forward that show inflammation originates with the digestive tract. And if your stomach and intestines are not functioning properly there is no way to get the optimum nutrition from the food. And grains are bad for your digestive tract. They inhibit the intestines ability absorb the nutrients in food. Also notice there is no category for sugar added or “diet” drinks in this description. Stop consuming those products.
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Basically, if you can’t pick it and eat it, or kill it and cook it you shouldn’t be putting it in your body. You can’t eat wheat off the stalk. Oats can’t be fried, frozen or sautéed. Potatoes cannot be eaten raw. Beans, especially dried beans can’t be eaten without soaking and softening. Both corn and rice are grains. You can eat corn raw (I think) and rice can be eaten cooked but both of those items should be eaten in very small quantities. So no gluten based grains, limited potatoes, beans, rice, and corn. This is a radical idea in food. And I know you really don’t want to hear this so stop listening. Keep doing what you are doing and keep getting the results you have been getting. Try every new diet that comes along…it will work for 6 to 12 weeks and then you will put your weight back on.
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Diets don’t work-- lifestyle changes work. Change your lifestyle to one of optimum fitness and health. Change your lifestyle to one that works with whole, natural foods that nourish your body, mind and yes even your soul. Stop eating food that doesn’t serve your health and fitness.
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And eat less. Smaller portions, less often. Most people underestimate the amount of calories they take in and over estimate the number of calories they need for energy. And move more. So that is the mantra…Eat Less, Move More. Eat Less, Move More. Eat Less Move More.
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Next week we will tackle exercise. Get ready for more radical ideas on that! I can’t imagine an existence without movement or one where I am in a vegetative state unable to choose anything at all. There is no life there. This is not about the number of days in your life but the amount of life in your days. Give me 10 minutes of exhilaration on a mountain, in the ocean, or with my beloved over 10 years of mind numbing tedium any time.
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Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
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