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
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