What Is Great About Juicing

Wow what a day!!! But I feel good even though it’s 10pm at night. Let’s hear it for the Veggie Juicing I did early this morning I made a green juice with my juicer using the recipe from the documentary “Fat, Sick and almost Dead”. It is made with 1 cucumber, a bunch of kale, ½ lemon, thumb size piece of ginger,2  granny smith apples, and 4 stalks of celery. What a boost of energy you get as well as detoxing all the toxins and fat from your body. You also lose weight and feel great! .We do it 3 days week and during that time we also eat light foods like fruit and salad.

My question to you tonight is are you living to eat or eating to live? That is the question of this century. We as Americans are accustomed to eating  quick, easy ,sweet, fatty, malnourished, larger than life super size me portioned meals, with little to no fiber. Fiber is necessary to clean our bodies systems out along with the fat and toxins kind of like a plumber cleans out your kitchen  sink. Without fiber the sludge stays in the cells of our bodies and creates a bulge in our tummies, chronic fatigue, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol and a host of other diseases and chronic problems and immune deficiencies .We then pass on these negative habits to our children.

We have a serious problem today with obesity in our society amongst adults but 1 in three Latino and African American children being obese, that should be a crime. This is the first generation of kids that may actually die before their parents do that is scary.

It all started with our parents and what they taught us about food. I remember my parents saying take your vitamins and make sure you eat your salad and greens, eat slowly. I remember my parents trying their absolute best to give me balanced healthy meals or at least they thought they were healthy. Balanced maybe to a certain extent but not really.

I was given Capt’n Crunch and Cinnamon Crunch for breakfast on weekdays because that’s what I saw on television and wanted. I do not believe my parents really understood the dangers these bowls of sugar contained. Nor did they know that the USDA requirements for one person eating sugar is 7-9 teaspoons a day. The average American consumes close to 40 teaspoons a day Yikes!!Visit Nutrition by Natalie you will be very surprised she gives you actual visual demonstrations in video formats of how much sugar we actually consume  as Americans versus for example the Japanese diet. It is truly jaw dropping, insane, crazy I do not eat that much sugar you think … but you do it all adds up.

Our parents did not know about the ridiculous, outrageous food additives, colorings, food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides, GMO’S, RGBH, all poisons /toxins to our bodies. They did not buy local organic foods. Most of the foods on Americans plates on average have traveled 1,500 miles from where they originated as opposed to local produce from a local farm and just picked from the field. There is already a deficiency in our soils because of the  massive food production plants and how they treat the crops  and the gmo crop contamination, as well as the Drug I mean meat factories of treating animals with hormones ,antibiotics, and feeding them garbage.

On the brighter side of things there are many many resources... food advocate and consumer protection agencies, non-profit companies all available to educate and inform the public on these very serious issues.They all have put them selves out there to say Enough of corporate profit at the expense of the American people who do not know why and do not know where to look and are growing sicker by the day.Those organizations have all done their research and diligence as we have.

Help is here We are the Why!!!Our goal is inform parents and arm you so to speak ...so you can make better decisions and life changes concerning food, diet and exercise for your selves and your children.It is a life style and you will never regret it.We will provide our stories,our own personal journey as a family, pictures, videos, links to informative websites, recipes all to help you make the changes necessary one step at a time.

Our other objective is to get families feeling confident in the kitchen again cooking delicious wholesome healthy meals for their families as well as making healthy lunches for their kids so they do not feel inclined to take the short cut ..fast food the road to an early death for sure.

Til next time Be Health

Kim Mendoza and Family

Gabriella and I shopping together

Picking Up Some Apples To Juice

To Market, To Market To Buy Some Good Stuff!

So   it’s Saturday night and we just finished a great day with our wonderful  six year old daughter Gabriella. We spent some time today and last weekend at our local farmers market . It is now her favorite activity she actually looks forward to going to the market. This particular market is located in Silver Spring, Maryland  and starts at 9am-1pm. We make it a weekly family experience it’s a lot of fun.

 We encourage Gabriella to pick out her favorite fruits and vegetables at the market. Last week she picked nectarines, peaches, kale and fresh corn!! Wow the fruits and the corn were so sweet and juicy she loved them and she had a sense of purpose, pride and involvement.

  

Today at the market she asked for a  snack and we gave her a nectarine which she was very content with. We do allow her to have treats, like today, at the movies we saw Cars 2; we had popcorn and M&Ms but we made  that choice at least knowing consciously… that is the true power…. what chemicals are in M&Ms especially the coloring and that the popcorn if butter is added has cholesterol. So it’s occasionally a treat for her but most of the time it’s organic baked sweets or Rice Dream (an alternative ice cream) in moderation of course.

Our daughter Gabriella loves the fresh salsa we get from Chef Elroy she loves the medium flavor because it has a little kick to it’s not to spicy either. Next week we will try the Mango flavor  she can’t wait.  I must admit it is the tastiest and freshest salsa I have ever tried. The salsa was also a hit with her beautiful cousins and our nieces Ruby Lu and Kaniz. The came to our home last weekend and devoured the salsa and chips and they Love to eat sweets and foods that are not good for you and are usually extremely over processed, so we were thrilled. We are trying to encourage them to eat healthier alternatives as well as introduce them to their parents. So far the apple, banana, kale, orange, and strawberry fruit drink with agave a (natural sweetner ) is also a hit. I use our juicer to make the drinks and Voila!, they always want more. It’s always fresh local organic fruit that I use for our daily juicing and our smoothies.

The kids get all the vitamins, nutrients, and calcium right from the source in one drink and want more because it is sweet but natural sweet. We also encouraged them to be involved with the shopping when we take a trip to the Whole Foods Market to shop. We took all three girls shopping last weekend and they were thrilled.They helped pick out the fresh vegetables and fruit and other organic products .It really makes a difference when they are involved in the process of choosing healthy  foods and preparing them.  They also,  particularly Gabriella, now make a habit of reading all labels on the foods  we are purchasing and have in the house. For most  kids it’s fun, Especially when it’s been explained to them over and over again the benefits of eating healthy and the very negative effects of not eating healthy.

The Body is a person’s Temple and you only have one so it should be treasured more then anything  in life because you only get one body in your  life. This is Why we choose healthy eating to be a lifestyle not a diet and we have been toxic free for over one year by making a conscious choose to eat only organic  foods and when we have anything else every blue moon we feel the difference and the pain shooting through  parts of our body . Even eating a piece of cake that has fructose corn syrup you can feel the difference in your body. Unfortunately the majority of the population have not made the commitment yet to eat only organic/local foods. So even though we usually travel with our own food because once you change to organic you never feel the same again. We are sometimes in a position where we bite the bullet and go off the organic trail for a minute or two.

We spent a a lot of time at Dino’s Brother’s home in Stafford, VA over the summer and we do our best to bring up organic cakes when we can for birthday’s. They certainly taste better, that’s for sure. We eat like Kings  and we are healthy that is the truth our food is delicious so yes it’s worth the extra cost, every penny of it. It is not that substantial of a difference. If you had a Rolls Royce would you put cheap gas in it?, is my question to you this evening? So why would you put toxic, over processed food with no nutritional value in your body ,Nada.

Before I go until next  time a wonderful  recipe to try is Barbeque Seitan Sandwiches .Seitan is a meat alternative made out of wheat  so it has lots of protein and it has a meat like texture YUMMY YUMMY .You don’t even miss the pork/beef/chicken but you can of course substitute. I recommend lean organic/kosher meat, preferably chicken. Add a green salad and fresh corn organic of course  and you won’t  regret it or need dessert. You can make your own dressing or buy your  favorite organic brand. Adding apples or pears is good because kids love the sweetness and the texture. And of course buy the barbeque sauce organic. You can find other great recipe at www.vegrecipes.org.  Next time I will give you a great smoothie recipe for kids and adults.

Sweet Dreams til next time!!

Kim Mendoza and Family