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A lit­tle known fact about our obses­sion with “Milk for strong bones” is that it is one of the biggest mis­un­der­stand­ings in nutri­tion today. We have become crazy with the idea that you have to con­sume dairy prod­ucts for good health and noth­ing could be fur­ther from the truth. con­tinue reading…

Video: CNN –Dr. San­jay Gupta on pes­ti­cides in produce.

Do you really need to wait for a study to be done or for the gov­ern­ment to tell you that con­sum­ing pes­ti­cides is a bad thing? If you wouldn’t spray a can of Raid into your mouth, don’t eat some­thing that has been soaked in it please.

In the video Dr. Gupta failed to note any­thing about GMO and in par­tic­u­lar the GMO corn he noted as being one of his favorites. That said, this was  main­stream news media and I don’t expect them to tackle some­thing so big or scary as Mon­santo. If noth­ing else  Dr. Gupta’s clout will sim­ply help to fur­ther aware­ness about organ­ics and that is a good thing.

Radio Inter­view with Dr. Cor­dain author of the Paleo Diet

I recently came to appre­ci­ate how much grains had an impact on my health after stray­ing from our diet on a few occa­sions with desert when we went out for din­ner. Both times I strayed the arthri­tis in my neck flared up within a day or so in a very notable way. This is the same arthri­tis that I was told would lead to fus­ing my ver­te­brae together within 5 years of my diag­no­sis. That was three years ago. I guess we will see where I am in another two years.

The dam­age to my neck has already been done through years of abuse with my diet. The dif­fer­ence now is that the chronic pain no longer exists.  Three years ago the pain was high enough that I almost did the surgery for relief. This is one instance that I am glad I procrastinated…

I have often strug­gled with how to put the basics of what I have learned into a sin­gle post. I think the new page on helo­fuud is the clos­est I have come so far with­out writ­ing a full on the­sis. If you are look­ing for some rapid changes to your health and weight this plan will help get you there. If you aren’t in a hurry you can spread out the time frame to fit your own per­sonal goals too.

Always con­sult a physi­cian before start­ing a new eat­ing plan. (I really hate that I even have to put that there)

click here for The Helo­fuud Thirty Day Plan

I hope that peo­ple will at least some­day rec­og­nize that their cats and dogs shouldn’t be eat­ing corn, soy, and rice based foods col­ored with Red 40. Even if they don’t rec­og­nize this point for their own health, at least most can see the logic for their pets. Does this even make sense? There are good pet foods out there but you have to seek them out and you will pay a lit­tle more for them. Read the ingre­di­ents on your pets food and ask your­self if it sounds like foods they would eat if they had a choice in the wild. I promise you they wouldn’t pick high fruc­tose corn syrup over a piece of beef. Isn’t Fido worth it?

I am often asked to pro­vide a list of (click here->) the foods we eat and do not eat. Here is that list.

I am sure I have omit­ted some things but the major foods are there. It may seem extreme but it really isn’t. It is a lit­tle chal­leng­ing at times only because the bulk of mass pro­duced foods are not tai­lored to this lifestyle.Even so, it is quite easy to stick to once you under­stand the effects that cer­tain foods have on your health.

If you are inter­ested, do a lit­tle research. I did. It is no coin­ci­dence that this lifestyle is a com­mon choice amongst can­cer patients. It is easy to see why when you start tak­ing a close look at what is in the foods you are eating.

I have been doing some research into this in an effort not to sound like a paranoid-hypochondriac when I finally do post, but I hon­estly don’t think the infor­ma­tion can wait.

Besides this recent news arti­cle I have found that this phe­nom­e­non isn’t iso­lated to apple juice and peo­ple need to know about it.

Below are links to the news arti­cle, pod­cast, and a research study on arsenic in bev­er­ages that I am still review­ing. You can decide for yourself.

Arsenic Lev­els High in Apple Juice, St. Peters­burg Times Finds — Audio Version

St. Pete Times Article

Arsenic in Com­mer­cial Bev­er­ages Study

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“But they are picky eaters!” This is the com­plaint I often hear from par­ents when dis­cussing ways to help their chil­dren make bet­ter food choices. What most par­ents fail to real­ize is that this is a learned behav­ior not a genetic trait. The good news is that par­ents can help their kids to UN-learn this behav­ior. The key to suc­cess lies in the com­mit­ment to be a strong par­ent, even when your kids are con­vinced you are evil incar­nate for not let­ting them have Pop Tarts instead.

When my kids were old enough to start adopt­ing their own opin­ions about foods my wife and I estab­lished a few sim­ple rules. These were the “Rules of Engage­ment” that we reminded our chil­dren of in a calm and “mat­ter of fact” tone when chal­lenges arose. If you make eat­ing any­thing into a trau­matic event you are going to fail, so don’t over-react. Remain even tem­pered but diligent.

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Do I Eat This?

Some­times we just need some­thing easy to remem­ber to help us make bet­ter choices when it comes to food. Com­pli­cated diets and menus are not prac­ti­cal. You need to be able to make deci­sions on the fly when­ever you are faced with the deci­sion to eat, or not to eat. I love acronyms so D.I.E.T. Rules seemed as good as any to use. 8). A sim­ple, easy to fol­low set of guide­posts to help you along the way through daily life.

If you make small con­scious choices like this one each time you eat it becomes an effort­less habit in no time. Then you can add to it and really build some momen­tum with your eat­ing habits. Weight comes off eas­ily and you feel bet­ter too.

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Take the helo­fuud chal­lenge and try fol­low­ing this one small guide­line for just one week.

D.I.E.T. Rule #1:

If you can­not pro­nounce it and/or you do not know what it is, do not eat it..

Start by read­ing the ingre­di­ents label on every­thing you eat. I will warn you now, if you are eat­ing a lot of food from a box or can you will have a lit­tle work to do.

Pretty sim­ple rule to fol­low right? Just because some­thing is sold as food and just because the FDA or some sci­en­tist tells you that it is okay to eat, doesn’t mean that it is.

Smok­ing cig­a­rettes was once con­sid­ered okay by experts too. In fact I recently found a num­ber vin­tage news­pa­per arti­cles (pre-1950) not­ing the ben­e­fits of smok­ing by experts includ­ing med­ical doc­tors. Hope­fully we can learn some­thing from his­tory since we all know how the whole “smok­ing is good for you” thing worked out. Let’s not make the same mis­take with the foods we eat by lis­ten­ing to experts who tell us that things like Polysor­bate 60 and cal­cium sul­fate are okay to eat. (FYI — those are just two of the ingre­di­ents in Twinkies.) Coin­ci­den­tally both ingre­di­ents are also used in rocket fuel. Mmm…mmm!

If you really want to eat some­thing you can’t pro­nounce, at least do some home­work and find out what it is first. Then if you still feel safe doing so, go ahead. Try doing a search for Polysor­bate 60 and ask your­self if you would still eat it if it wasn’t in a Twinkie.

Also make no assump­tions if you can pro­nounce it. Red food dye sounds sim­ple enough right? Click here to find out what it really is.

Unfor­tu­nately most fruits and veg­eta­bles are not required to include ingre­di­ent labels yet. With­out an ingre­di­ents label you have no way of know­ing exactly what was used to grow your food. Hence you don’t know its true ingredients.

For more on this check out my post on Organic vs. GMO & Con­ven­tion­ally grown fruits and vegetables.

Remem­ber, if it sounds too sci­en­tific or you need to Google it to know what it is, don’t eat it. If every­one did this I am will­ing to haz­ard a guess that the world­wide can­cer rate would begin to drop.

A friend sent this link to me and it is absolutely worth re-posting. I will say it just one more time: If we stopped pay­ing farm­ers to grow corn with our tax money, they would grow some­thing much bet­ter than corn. Any­thing would be bet­ter for that mat­ter. Okay, well maybe not Soy either. No soy and no corn would be bet­ter. I will stop now.

The Real Rea­son Why Poor Peo­ple Are Fat

Warn­ing: The sec­ond pic­ture in the post is going to catch you by surprise.