1. eat FOOD (real food) (not highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists)
2. dont eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food (picture in your head go-gurt portable yogurt tubes) (your great grandmother wouldnt know what that was)
3.avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human wouldnt keep in the pantry
4. avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup
5. avoid foods that have some form of sugar (sweetener) listed among the top three ingredients.
6. avoid food products that contain more than 5 ingredients
7. avoid food products containing ingredients that a 3rd grader cannot pronounce
8. avoid food products that make health claims.
9. avoid food products with the wordoid "lite" "lowfat" or "nonfat" in their names
10. avoid foods that are pretending to be something they are not. (aka MARGARINE!!!!!!!!)
11. avoid foods you see advertised on tv
12. shop only the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
13. EAT ONLY FOODS THAT WIL EVENTUALLY ROT! (LOVE THAT ONE!)
14. eat only foods that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature
15. get out of the supermarket whenever you can. (farmers markets)
16. buy your snacks at the farmers market
17. eat only foods that have been cooked by humans
18. dont eat foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap
19. if it came from a plant eat it, if it was made in a plant....DONT
20. its not food if it arrived through the window of your car
21. its not food if its called by the same name in every language (cheetos, big mac, pringles)
22. eat mostly plants...especially leaves
23. treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food
24. eating what stands on one leg (mushroom and plants) is better than eating what stands on 2 legs (fowl) which is better than eating what stands on four legs (cows pigs and other mammals)
25. eat your colors
26. drink the spinach water (save the water in which veggies are cooked) (good for soups and sauces)
27. eat animals that have themselves eaten well
28. if you have the space buy a freezer (I WANT ONE!!!)
29. eat like an omnivore
30. eat well grown food from healthy soil
OK im dividing this up in half bc this post is getting too long.....but this book is so interesting. it really pumps me up to eat healthy and think about eating healthy!!!!! ive often said if i went back to college, it would definitely be to study food and nutrition....its amazing how much you can learn. its fun!!!!!!!!!!! and everyday brings new possiblities of what new things to try in your diet!!!!
check out this cool website i found....tons of great health advice and recipies and products to buy.....crazy sexy life
try mixing some of these little hints in your daily life!!!! and remember that if you want fast food, try fruits and veggies....they even come in their own little wrapper!!!!!
6 comments:
LOVE IT. I can't say that I follow these, but it's eye opening and I will FOR SURE strive to follow as many as I can. Small changes make a BIG difference.
If you have a chance- check out the movie/doc Food,Inc. It will totally change how you view food even more than this book already has. Its pretty mind-blowing. Seriously, please watch it.
Yea, I like the "eat only foods that will eventually rot" too! Mylon and I are so sentimental and we kept our "little Debbie" oatmeal snacks from our honeymoon, NOVEMBER 1993, and they look the same!!!! Pretty hard....I have kept them in plastic baggies all of these years! hahahah we are crazy. So, just imagine how bad those are for anybody!
so not the super yummy valentine cookie that i'm having for breakfast?? :)
Great rules but a little confused by #17: "Eat foods only cooked by a human."
I guess that means not to eat foods cooked by a muscrat, moose or a polar bear. Bummer.
Ali... found your blog. Its so darling! Hope to keep in touch! Congratulations on your marriage!
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