Experimenting with gluten-free, raw and clean cuisines and breaking free from the notion of "dietary limitations" that block the incentive to prepare, cook and enjoy a creative, delicious and diverse complement of healthy foods.
Our food has been subsidized, cornified, processed... and the abundance is making one in three Americans and one quarter of our children fat, fat fat! Whose at fault?
More about the cornification of our food by Organic Lifestyle Magazine: "High fructose corn syrup is made by treating corn (typically genetically modified corn) with a variety of enzymes (many of which are also genetically modified) to first extract the sugar glucose and then convert some of it into fructose (fructose is sweeter than glucose). The end result is approximately 55% fructose and 45% glucose." Read the full article.
A significant event that influenced why I decided to incorporating more raw foods into my diet is when I watched the documentary Simply Raw with friends at a raw foods meeting and potluck last fall. Having been informed by my doctor that my test results indicated that I am pre-diabetic (also, a genetic predisposition in the women in our family), which means if I don't watch my diet more closely, lose some weight and exercise regularly - I will become diabetic... the subtitle of the film Reverse Diabetes in 30 Days seriously piqued my interest. What I saw and learned was absolutely astonishing.
Based on what I have read and been told by the medical profession all my life, I believed that once a person becomes diabetic, their diabetes it's irreversible. The shocking truth is that diabetes can be avoided altogether and completely reversed in most diabetics - both Type I and Type II - in 30 days!
Because of the impact this documentary film has made on my life, I have modified my diet to eat more raw foods (delicious by the way!), I am exercising more and I am loosing weight. I look forward to seeing the results of my next tests. There should be a significant change in the results! I will report back and let you know.
I encourage you to watch the video and learn the truth for yourself, and order a copy to share with your friends and loved ones who are suffering, even dying from the ravages of diabetes. There is hope!
Michael Pollan suggests: “If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.”
"Food is the foundation, but it's really about life." FRESH, the movie
"If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?" Ymber Delecto
"…the key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that." Marion Nestle
"All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me." Michael Palin
"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." La Rochefoucauld
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