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Healthy eating needn't be time consuming:
Here are some ideas on how you can eat fully organic:
Breakfast:
Eat Kumut cereal, which is four times cheaper than regular cereal. Add a small handful of raisons, or fresh organic fruit and natural organic yoghurt. Don’t be seduced into getting flavoured or low fat yoghurt - that will just add more sugar. Beware of anything saying ‘low fat’ or ‘low sugar or ‘no sugar’ because generally there are worse ingredients added to compensate. Fruit alone is a great option for breakfast and if you haven’t time, why not have a banana? It comes in its own natural wrapping.
Lunch and dinner:
Check that the fish is fresh and not farmed. That cuts out conventional shrimp, salmon, mussels and oysters. Tuna isn’t farmed, but ask what grade it is. Eat lots of organic salad, vegetables, fruit, brown rice, pasta and fish (that isn’t farmed). Check labels for the salt and sugar content of sauces; and be careful about Vegetable Oil in the form of partly-hydrogenated vegetable oil as in trans-fats. Avoid palm oil, coconut oil, and canola oil. It does an excellent job of clogging the arteries. My advice is stick to olive oil. If the ingredients have chemical names you don’t understand; don’t buy the product.
Organic food doesn’t have to be expensive. You can live on brown organic rice and steamed vegetables. As you won’t be digesting chemicals that are designed to make you eat more and make you fatter, you will feel full with one serving. Your body will be satisfied with the nutrients and vitamins other food has been lacking. This also has the advantage of helping you slim.
However, if you are eating ‘some’ organic food, which many people are telling me, don’t fool yourself that this is okay. The chemicals from the remainder of your diet will already be doing their damage and override the goodness contained in the real food.
I won’t pretend it’s easy and since anything with a longer shelf life is suspect, you may well be shopping every 2-3 days. But that’s what we used to do when food was fresh, before all the additives and preservatives were introduced as standard ingredients.
The most difficult thing I have found is to go to the many high-priced ticket Charity and Society lunches and balls. I cannot understand why they serve unhealthy food. I have to eat before I attend these events and politely push my food around the plate. There is no temptation to eat it. Few, if any, of the venues and hotels cater these events with organic food. If the organisers spent just a little bit more, they could provide their contributors with real food and still have plenty left for the charity.
The reality is that if it isn’t real food, it’s chemical food and I know of no chemical food that is healthy. You just need to rent the film “Supersize Me” to illustrate this stark reality. After 30 days on a junk food only diet, the person was so ill that the doctors believed he would seriously damage his health if he continued.
For details of the top 20 Food Additives to avoid, visit the website: http://altmedangel.com/additive.htm
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