Amazing

Do you find it amazing, that we have more food, better variety of food all year long, affordable for alot of Americans, and we consume less vitamins, less nutrition, are less healthy, spend more on health care, are more obese, than we were 40 years ago.

Death from heart disease is reduced, but heart disease has sky rocketed.

Remissions from cancers is good, but amount and types of cancers have increased. (this is not only about detection.)

Allergies, have completely went out of site.

Autism
Many auto immune diseases.


Could it be where we are getting our food from?
What type of food we are consuming?
How that food is grown?

Simply amazing you are willing to settle for this.

Unsatisfied

Proving your point really does no good. So much of what we argue about really does not matter.

Love is truly being happy for others, seeing where they are coming from.

Being willing to give even if the person doesn't deserve it.

You will only be happy when you actually are compassionatea

Compassion

What do you do when you feel compassion? Do you act on it? Have you allowed your heart to be hardened?
Start feeling compassion for those you see in need.

Then pray for the answers on how you can help.

Compassion the word of the week.

Simplify

What is really important? Can you keep your treasured possesions with you always?
Will you have them in assissed living, how about the nursing home? That inlaw apartment your kids made for you. Is it worth paying storage for something you might never look at again.

How much do you really need? Are you a horder?

If you want control SIMPLIFY!

Keep the memories.

Wrongs

As soon as you realize you are doing anything wrong, STOP IT.

Don't make excuses for continuing. Stop letting "whatever" it is infect you.

If you can't make a difference find another way.


It is what it is but you don't have to be a part of it. You choose to be there. You can also choose to be better, to do better.

Strive to follow the narrow path.

Is your warning light still blinking.....

or is it on full time?

Only you can take care of whatever the problems are creating the warning light.

Wether it is weight, strength, mobility or spirtual, you can control YOU and how you react to your surroundings whatever they maybe.

You decide.

Yoga

Yoga practice has made a huge improvement in my mobility.

You do what YOU can do and only increase as you feel you can. Yoga should never hurt only gently stretch.

Kat found a great little book and dvd at Borders and shared it with me.

I found the same title marked down at ALDI's. If you are read to start your Yoga practice, check it out.
The title is: The Gift of Yoga. $3.99 in the markdown bin at Aldi's.

Who do you believe?

More fat, less fat...good carbs, no carbs, sun-sunscreen, vit d, vit e, lots of fruit, fruits too sugary.

Who do you believe?

How are you getting healthy?

How do you know the studies are good?

Thinkings!

Is it hard for you to get your mind around new or different information?

Like fat is not bad, franken fats are bad, but saturated fats are not bad, trans fats are bad.

All fat is bad, that is what we have grown up with. Animal fats are super bad, manufactured fats are better. Wrong!

Fats are not bad, we need fats in our body. Our brains need fats. Eating fat will not make you fat if you eat the right kinds of fats.

Now that is my new believe. It is what the research shows. It is hard to remember it when I am shopping or planning or cooking foods. Let alone when eating foods.
I believe different than most people. I believe Paleo or primal or WPF philosophies. I know how I feel when I eat those way and not the new traditional way.
But living it is something else. We have been so brain washed since 1970 with heart health, low fat, high carb diets. We are fatter, and this stinkin thinkin has made us very unhealthy and most likely on lots of pharmaceuticals.
We can change our thinking we just need to turn our brains off of listening to commercialism, get back to the basics and eat as natural as possible.
Research yourself, make cards of your believes, read them several times a day. STOP watching so much TV, and move a little more instead.

Bones

Where have all the bones gone?
Do you make stock? or broth?

We have always saved our ham bones, bones from beef roasts and poultry carcasses.
If I didn't have time or need soup immediately we froze them to use later.

While cleaning out the freezer this week I noticed I only have one ham bone.
I make soup at least once a week and I have nothing in the freezer to depend on except one ham bone. No roasts with bones in them, no whole chickens, one ham bone.

Looking at the grocery this week, the amount of meats available with bones is very limited.
What the heck. What are they doing with the bones. Bones use to be easy to find, cheap.
Lots of calcium good stock.

Where have all the bones gone, do you know?

Had club at my house last night, very nice evening.

Me who complains constantly about the way we cook and the food we eat, had an extremely carb heavy menu.

Just so you know this will be the last time I do that at my house.

To gain you health back you need to eat a lot of vegetables, a small amount of meat, a little sugar or starch.
So the perfect meal is:

2 cups of fresh mixed veggies,
3 oz of chicken
1/2 cup rice
all heated in a tablespoon of healthy oil.

For desert add 3/4 cup of frsh berries and 1/2 cup of yogurt and you have the perfect ratio of nutrients.

We had starch, starch, sugar and more starch last night.
A few vegies thrown in for good measure.
So I guess this was my 10 percent meal for the week and I will go back on my good stuff for the other 90 percent.
Sorry girls I sure didn't practice what I preach.

Back to the Basics

Not sure people understand. Some of the conviences we have learned to depend on are the very things causing our unhealthy bodies.

I am trying my best to get back to the basics. That doesn't mean giving up good food, but really how hard is it to make it from scratch?

Most things are a few ingredients and a bit of time. Not rocket science. Once you stop letting the prepared foods screw with your taste buds, you start appreciating the flavors of real food.

I am slowly working my way out of my pantry. Only purchasing whole foods, and eventually I will make it.

Oh buy the way I am on the 90-10 philosophy. If I can do this for 90 percent of the time, the 10 percent of bad food stuff, my body can handle. Now on another note, most of the time the 10 percent stuff stuff tastes awful, so progress is being made.

If I can figure out how to copy and paste in blogger I will start posting recipes. There has to be a way, I just can't figure it out.

Many things

WPF meeting tonight, 7:00 at Grace Church on Wells Avenue. The lecture will be on soaking grains. Think sourdough. Hoping this helps the sensitivity and I can eventually add wheat back in to my diet.

Why can't I copy and past into these blogger templates? Does anyone know?

Club Wednesday at my house. Look for any email that explains parking. With the thaw, it will be muddy and I don't want anyone getting stuck.

How well are you moving now adays. Have you started making yourself move more?
Where ever you are in fitness training, just be consistent and then add a little every week.
If you don't move YOU will stop eventually, just like the rusty wheel. You have to use the joints to keep them Mobile.
At our ages we have to think different. I know we all thought at retirement age we could slow down and rest a bit. Well that is meant for those have to things that we have done for years. As we get stop caring so much about those items we have more time to concentrate on our bodies and make them as good as possible.
MOVE IT!, STRETCH IT, BUILD STRENGTH, BUILD ENDURANCE, BUILD FLEXIBILITY!

What is Frakenfood?

We all know that many of the manufactured food substances have no nutrition. They are made to make us think we need them, to make money for big business, to make us addictive to snack foods.
Even worse are those frankenfoods that convince us they are healthy.
Lets take tomato's. I love tomatoes. Fresh from the garden, sweet, acidy, plump, juicy, warm.
Great on sandwiches, wonderful sliced with a touch mayo or Italian dressing.

What about those canned tomato's that we use to cook with now a days.
First they are grown in large fields. They never ripen to the point you would eat them off the vine. There have been engineered to stay firm,(think rock) with less sugar, so they don't ferment after picking. So they can ride in large trucks to the factory to be canned in BPA lined cans.
After being processed, you know peeled, cut and placed in cans, they have sugar added, why because they no longer have enough natural sugar, so they have no flavor without the sugar, they also have citric acid added so they have the acidy taste. The BPA in the cans is so they don't rust.
It is a huge poison if it leeches into the food, it will with tomato's.
Most people eat lots of tomato and tomato products per year. They have many health benefits. Look for healthy choices, don't choose the cheapest (tho price isn't always the determining factor for nutrition). Better yet can your own so you know what is in those nice clean jars. Superior grow your own and then can them.
Taste the difference, You will not believe the difference in taste of heirloom tomato's if you grow them in your fertile ground without pesticides, herbicides.

Not too much

How much are you really eating.
When you eat that cereal in the morning do you need a bagel 15 minutes later.
No you don't. You need to eat a balance of carbs, protein and fats.
The food needs to have nutrition to it. If you eat a high sugar or carb food without adding the fat and protein to it your body says okay stop teasing me, I got a taste but no way is it going to sustain me for more than a few, give me food, real food, food that fuels me. It kind of like giving a car starter fluid when it is really out of gas. You need good sustainable fuel.
Add a boiled egg, with an apple to your breakfast cereal. Or have yogurt, berries and a bit of granola. Stir an egg into your serving of oatmeal and make it oatmeal custard. How about a Canadian bacon sandwich with lettuce, a slice of tomato a teaspoon of mayo on a whole wheat emglish muffin.(watch for bad oils and trans fat). Don't let the front of the label sway you, read the label on the back with the real information on it.
Remember fats are not bad, we need some at everymeal just choose the correct fats.
Eat a sustainable breakfast and you won't need to eat again for 4 to 5 hours.
Or if you are on a 2 to 3 hour schedule, choose a bit of protein with each mini meal.

Eat Food

Okay so how do you eat food?

Get back to the basics. Do not buy pre-packaged. Eat as close to natural as you can.

If you grandma doesn't recognize it as food don't eat it.

Okay clarification, if someones grandmother doesn't recognize it as food don't eat it.

I am not sure my grandma would have recognized yogurt.

If you eat meat, look into what it is being feed. It is only as good for you as it's diet was for it.
If you eat fruits and vegetables check on how they are grown. If bugs won't eat them why are you?
Fats are not evil, use in proportion to your other nutrients, even weight watchers tells you to eat 3 teaspoons of oil. Please don't eat franken oils. Rape seed=canola oil, corn oil, not good for you.
Stick with olive oil, coconut oil, saturated fats aren't the bad guys they have made out to be. Problems have arisen because our ratios are off, our ratios between 3 and 6's are way off.
Be sensible, everything in moderation except FRANKEN FOODS.

Woman of Faith

For those of you going, just wondering what the heck they were thinking changing the venue this year.

There is nothing within walking distance as far as hotels or restaurants. Parking is a nightmare, and I am sure they will need lots more parking because so many people walked from their hotels. It's going to be hard to get back to the hotel and then back to event during the break, but restaurant wise you will have the same problem. And Friday night is a awful driving in Columbus.

The good thing is we will be heading into downtown during the break when everyone else is headed out, but having the valet parking and then getting it back out again, paying for parking at the lot twice on Friday it all is just so ridiculous. It was all so easy before.

Oh well can you tell I don't like change. But seriously WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Getting Healthy

Eat-food, not frankenfood
Drink-water
Move-your body-just 10,000 steps aday
resist-calisthenics-weights
stretch-yoga-pilates
meditate-your brain


Add yours!

Opinions!

We all have our own opinions on health, diet and doctors orders.

There are a million studies to prove whatever position you choose to take.

The real truth usually lies somewhere in between.

It is up to us as individuals to decide what, when, where we will follow the advice all over the place.

Me I have decided I can not trust someone who is making big bucks off of me. Example:
Is stevia good for you?
Stevia is a plant with a sweet taste. It is green. The big food companies have finally decided it is worth the effort to manufacture. Before they decided that it could not be sold as a food substance in the good old USA. It has been shown to cause some miscarrages if you eat enough of it.
It is ground into powder, bleached and then has inulin or some such crap added to it, so you can measure it like sugar and resembles sugar. Hello, I can decide to only use a pinch, I don't need it to be white. I prefer to use a liquid stevia, and measure it by drops, I still buy mine in the healthfood store.
I don't know if it is good for me, but I don't mind the taste, it saves me a few calories and I have not had any effects from it. (buy the way, sugar only has 16 calories per teaspoon, it is not all that evil)
I am going to start posting my healthy living thoughts again. Just a reminder for myself.
Play along if you wish.

Weston Price Foundation

The WPF meeting will be held on Monday, Feb 14 at Grace Church in Country Club.



The meeting starts at 7:00 but there is vendors there earlier.

This months meeting is about soaking grains, seeds, and beans.



WPF is all about using food for nutrition. By using the right kinds of food and getting the proper nutrition you no longer need to worry about overeating.



Once you body is getting the proper nutrition cravings go away. You eat the correct amounts for you.

Laurie is also offering a bread making class in February and March. If you did not recieve the flyer for this email me and I will forward it to you.

Good thinks, bad things, all things

God uses ALL things for good.

Favorite Things?

What are your favorite things?

Take off on Oprah.

If you had a million dollars that you had to spend on one hundred others, what would you give them.
You must find or purchase things for them, you can't just give them the money.
It must be your favorite things.

(I do know she doesn't purchase them, she gets them donated. I also know it is the best advertising dollar any company can ever spend.)

Warning Lights!

How many years do you leave your warning light glow? When are you going to take care of the problems?

We tend to take care of our cars better than we take care of our bodies?

Check your bodies warning light and take the time to cure the problem!

What ever you need to do make plans and pursue it one step at a time.

Choose your life plan, make goals, write them down, pray and follow.

Shake up???

What is that thing called that they advertise to help shape your arms. You know the one that looks like your j****** off. (Sorry don't know how else to describe it)
Well you don't need it, if you just find a herd share, purchase raw milk, skim the cream, and shake it in a mason jar, you get good arms and BUTTER!.


Yea so easy.

Just saying.

Pet Parents

Pet parents are reading the labels and comparing their pets food. Commercial I saw today.

Too bad they aren't taking stock of the labels of their children's food, or their own food.


Speaking of OWN. Do you realize how much Oprah and her business dealings effect your life?

You need to pay attention.

If a show isn't making it, call Oprah, she can get your ratings up.
She can help you get elected to office, she can destroy other networks.
She can make or break you company. Get you product as one of her favorite things, and you too can be a millionaire.

It's not going to be long before she runs the world instead of just our country.

Americans Dietary Guidelines

Well a month late, but they have been released. Basically not much change in the last 30 years. They are released every 5 years.
We are still eating too much salt, hello, have you seen the salt intake in most convenience food?

Eat less meat and more vegetable protein. Hello what vegetables. Corn is a grain, so is wheat, they are not vegetables. Soy is a legume, again not a vegetable. We can learn this we are not stupid that we need to consider it a vegetable if it is not a meat product.

So lets see we have became less healthy, fatter, more obese, our children our more obese, we have more weight based disease than ever before and we are going to continue as is except for lowering our salt intake.

HELLO! Are you actually believing this, really look at your nutrition, what you are eating. How it makes you feel.

Please take care of you, not the hype and don't allow someone else to determine what food you eat.

Oprah

I know you guys all think I am a freak when it comes to food. Believe me I refuse to go vegan, but Oprah's show today has lots of info on why we should be selective on what we eat.

That American's diet is what is bankrupting us, it is why health care is so outrageous.

check it out on line if you missed it.