The standard American (or Australian or English) diet, or SAD for short, really is sad. There is no concept of health, nutrition, toxicity, weight gain or the diet best suited to the way you evolved. It seems the only aspect of concern is speed and taste. Of course these are important considerations, but so too are the others.
Let's examine these in more detail.
Healthy food is full of nutrients. It supplies your body with all its needs to prevent every conceivable illness, or to heal them. Yet not only is your food lacking in nutrients by the way it is farmed, the processing of de-naturing, emulsifying, colouring, flavouring, extending the shelf life and many more procedures are harmful.
Heat is used extensively and kills off many of the essential nutrients. Chemicals are used to flavour, colour, preserve or as catalysts, which increase the toxin levels in your body. De-naturing natural foods make them hard to digest and assimilate as well as creating mischief in your body.
An example of de-natured food is sugar. Sugarcane is a healthy food. As is the blackstrap molasses, the first by-product in the sugar processing. But sugar is very unhealthy. So are all the chemical sugar alternatives. On its own, sugar cannot be digested. So to digest it, minerals are pulled from your body. Minerals that are essential to a healthy body.
Don't consider for one minute that government agencies protect your food properly. They may prevent some of the really dangerous methods of food production, but not the less harmful ones. You have to look no further than the GM issue to realise that. Even that is considered by many to be one of the most harmful foods there are.
Chemicals which increase the toxicity in your body can come from the air you breathe or the cigarettes you smoke. But they also come from your food. In an effort to try to limit the damage to your body, they are stored in fat, in the organ systems, in the connective tissue, wreaking havoc, creating disease.
The SAD completes ignores the diet humans have evolved on and operate best on, which is the healthiest diet. This diet gives you more energy, more resistance to disease, greater peace, an optimum weight, greater ability to cope with stress and a longer, healthier life.
Aim for healthy eating to bring your weight down and increase your health.
Madeleine Innocent is a full time natural health consultant specialising in diet-for-health and homeopathy. She treats both people and animals within these two disciplines. She also coaches people both on- and off-line, on these subjects. For more information, visit: Healthy Eating For Weight Loss
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