Healthy Eating

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Eating healthy food is, quite simply, the single most important thing you can do for yourself to help yourself get healthy.

Right here I have 10 tips to healthy eating for you. Here's the first one.

Give up the fast food NOW!

Oh, the occasional grease burger won’t hurt you too much. I have one once or twice a year and it’s a treat. It brings back memories of how sluggish my arteries felt when I used to eat them more often. It reminds me of the gall bladder pain I used to feel when grease burgers were more of a staple in my diet. I fondly remember the layer of grease that would coat my mouth for hours after eating a grease burger. And who know what it was doing to my arteries! Was that really heart healthy eating? I don't think so.

But I don’t want you to think that I’m singling out grease burgers as being the only cause of dietary troubles. Not at all! Here's tip number two. And for those who are looking to do healthy eating on a budget, this one's going to be hard. You've got to watch out for the MSG in a lot of cheap Chinese food. And in other places too - mostly places where you get cheap food. MSG really does make your food taste better.

How?

It irritates your taste buds. It makes them tender and therefore more sensitive to whatever you’re putting in your mouth. So you can eat cheap and tasteless food filled with poisons from the soil in which it was grown and think that it tastes good.

I wonder what else MSG irritates? Your esophagus? Your stomach? Your gallbladder? Your liver? Your colon? None of that can possibly be a part of healthy eating.

Oh, and then there’s that other way of trying to make food taste "better."

It’s called SALT!

Ok. Here's tip number three. Actually, it’s called too much salt. Now, don’t get me wrong. Salt has it’s place in any good cook’s tool box. Almost any cooked food tastes better with a little salt added to it. And salt has tons of good uses around the house. It can definitely be part of a daily healthy eating plan.

But somewhere along the line, you got into the habit of going overboard with the salt. You think, if a little’s good then more must be better. But it’s not better. It’s just too much. Too much salt causes the body to retain fluids. And then, of course, you need drugs to help you get rid of the excess water.

Healthy eating? Hmmmm.

And for tip number four, there’s the old bugaboo known as sugar.

Do you read labels on food packages? Do you realize how much packaged food has some kind of sugar in it? Sometimes the sugar’s called high fructose corn syrup or honey or fructose or sucrose or maltose or dextrose or maltodextrin. It’s still all just sugar.

Why is it there at all?

Remember the set point of the tongue I referred to earlier in the Introduction to Your Better Health ? At a certain set point, your taste buds like the sugar. Actually, they don’t even really taste it. But when you change the set point, then you begin to taste the sugar. And then you begin to wonder why it’s even there. It even begins to feel like it's not one of the benefits of healthy eating.

More has been written about sugar and it’s addictive quality that you can even imagine. The sugar industry really likes it when you eat all that food with sugar in it. The more you eat of it, the better for them. They get to sell more sugar and you get to get more addicted and want more sugar. Once you stop to think about it, the vicious cycle becomes obvious. Healthy eating? I don't think so!

How about meat?

Tip number five starts with a question. If you're going to start eating healthy, should you eat any meat at all?

Well, that’s a decision you’ll have to make for yourself. I do - eat meat that is. I just feel better when I eat meat. But I eat organic meat - no hormone additives - no antibiotics. I mean, think about this for just a second. If the meat you eat has hormones in it, where do those hormones go after you’ve eaten the meat?

INTO YOUR BODY!!!!

Where do the antibiotics go?

INTO YOUR BODY!!!!

Did you ever think about why those additives are there in the first place?

They’re there so that the animals can be raised in horrible conditions, fed lousy food and still be kept alive long enough to get to the point where they can be sold, butchered and fed to you.

That's not Healthy Eating! That’s just disgusting!

And it gets done because it’s cheaper to produce meat this way. It’s expensive to keep the animals eating healthy food. It costs to feed them good food and keep them clean. That’s why organic meat costs more. But you’re worth it, aren’t you?

But organic food costs more!

Let's move on to tip number six. Organic food costs more. Yes. It’s true. It does. But it costs less than it did 20 years ago. And it costs less than it did 10 years ago. And less than it did 5 years ago.

Do you see a trend here?

More people are eating organic food because it's just a part of heart healthy eating. There’s more of a demand for it. There’s a larger supply of it. Why? Because people just like you and me are realizing that it’s the only smart way to go in our quest for the benefits of healthy eating.

Here's tip number seven. You really don’t want GMO foods. You know those perfect tomatoes you see in the market in the middle of winter? The ones where every single tomato looks just like its neighbor? They’re frankenfoods - genetically modified. Don’t buy 'em. Don’t eat 'em.

And tip number eight. You won’t eat irradiated foods. Sure the radiation kills bacteria. But your food needs bacteria in it. It’s part of the makeup of the food. And, again, where does the radiation go when you eat it? Guess!

You won’t buy poisoned foods. If you eat poisoned foods, you become poisoned.

Let them rot on the shelves - if they can.

Support your local farmers who grow without poisons. The ones who use heirloom seeds and grow real food. Or grow your own food in good soil you’ve created for yourself. Or look for the organic labels in the grocery store.

It’s getting so you don’t have to seek out the health food stores to find organic products. They’re right there in the bins in your local neighborhood grocery store. Buy the organic stuff! Eat the organic stuff! You’re worth it!

Here's tip number nine. Apply all these same principles to the water you drink. Get yourself a reverse osmosis filter and hook it up under your kitchen sink. You can get a good one these days for under $200.00. It’s a long term investment and a whole lot cheaper than buying bottled water. Although, if you have no alternative, that’s good too.

Many people believe that drinking water with chlorine and fluoride in it is one of the major health hazards in this country today. But with your reverse osmosis filter you can remove the poisons before you drink it.

And, finally, tip number ten. You can have the last word when it comes to your health. And now you have lots of reasons for eating healthy.

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