Rebel With a Fork

Yesterday was one of those days. I was scheduled to work just a few hours at the spa, so I ate a filling lunch – finishing off the pasta and beans, and figured I could eat a light dinner when I got home.

Unbenounced to me, my schedule had been changed. I was working until close. Nice of them to let me know, right?

I didn’t bring anything to eat. Fortunately (or not), there was gelato and chocolate cake there. I have to eat every few hours. My metabolism is trained to burn food practically as quickly as I eat it. If you’re following the quick start guide, you are training your body to do the same.

So that’s what I had for dinner – chocolate cake and gelato.

When I got home at 10 PM, the dog needed to be walked, and I was starving. Of course I would be – the dinner I had provided no nutrients – just empty calories.

By the time I walked the dog it was almost 11. Sorry, even the most saintly are not likely to start making a healthy dinner at that point. I had some pepperoni Texas Toast that had been languishing in the freezer.

I ate 2 pieces.

Not enough. Ate 2 more pieces.

Within minutes, I was falling asleep at the computer trying to make it through my emails. I was hot and uncomfortable. Yes, there is a connection between diet and hot flashes…

OK, if I get some sleep, that will be the end of this, right? Wrong.

When I got up, I had absoutely no energy. I’m dragging and sluggish. I can’t concentrate.

The point is – the food you eat affects you more than you may realize. The food you eat can heal you, or make you very, very sick. And it happens quickly.

I’m going to go eat some fruit and yogurt and see if I can get myself motivated. I can’t afford days like this! Can you?

Can you believe this? If you want to eat healthy and you are concerned about what you put in your body, you now have a mental disorder called orthorexia nervosa.

I know we’re not normal – but a mental disorder? That’s a bit strong, don’t you think?

Well, that’s the take on it from Mike Adams over at Natural Health (read his post here) . But he always takes things to a radical extreme. If you read the article he references, they make a good point.

There are some people who are so concerned with clean eating that they will starve themselves.  Mike Adams could clearly be suffering from this disorder. If he were to see the foods that we eat, he would shudder. He would call me a healthy eating fraud because I recommend a balanced diet. Imagine that.

Yes, I think we should do everything we can to avoid pesticides, chemicals, GMOs and such. But geez, these people take it way too far – and they are usually misinformed, or have twisted the facts to meet their agenda – exactly what they have accused big industry of doing. Extemism sells I guess.

That’s why we’re Rebels. Login and find something good to eat.  

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Moms love to say “I told you so.” OK, we don’t always say it, but we think it! Admit it…

So you may have asked yourself, “how credible can a single mom from Lake Villa, Illinois be?”

I’ve told you for years that there are foods you can eat that will starve cancer.

I’ve told you for years that when you feed your body the right foods, it will self-regulate your weight – no dieting required.

I’ll let someone else tell you –

How healthy would you be if you had only listened to me say 3 years ago?

Hey, I’m a nerd. I read all this stuff so you don’t have to.

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Does your teen have major mood swings, or seems to be always depressed? This was in a recent article over at Yahoo,

“Teens eat diets with bad-mood foods including lots of sweets and starches. That does dramatic things to blood sugar levels that shoot up and down. It wrecks havoc with mood,” she said. (article here)

Think about it. Add to that the fact that they’re not getting the nutrients they need and hormones are swinging out of control and you have a mess on your hands.

As a parent, there are some things you can do to control the chaos and make life easier for all of you -

Do your best to get at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables into them a day.

You know they’re going to be eating fast food when they’re out with their friends. Make sure they are getting fresh real foods at home.

Lead by example.

I’ve always made it a point to make it very clear to my daughter that a healthy diet is important, and why. We talk about corn syrup, fast foods, GMOs, and making the best food choices. I eat well, serve freshly made foods, get exercise, and you know – lead by example.

We’re not saints by any means. But when you eat healthy most of the time, the occasional splurge isn’t that bad.  

Teaching your kids to eat healthy is one of the greatest things you can do as a parent.

There are 2 great gifts that you can give your children –  the gift of reduced risk of serious illness in their lifetime, and the gift of not being saddled with sick parents to take care of. And they’ll have the vibrant health, energy, and clear thinking they’ll need to be a success in this world.

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Back in the 60s and 70s, it became apparent that we were not going to be able to feed the world population with the current state of food production.

You couldn’t grow enough crops fast enough.

You couldn’t produce enough meat, beef, chicken, pork, and fish fast enough.

And even if you could, using the then current methods, it would cost too much.

Enter – Lab Created Food and commercial agriculture.

You could actually manufacture food in a plant, making food fast, easy and cheap.

Commercial farming increased the availability of everything from meat to vegetables at a much faster rate.

There were a couple of problems.

First, no one would touch the fake stuff. Only very poor people ate it because it was cheap. It had a horrible stigma.

Enter – Big Time Marketing

Marketing geniuses were able to produce slick ads that would make your mouth water. And these foods were cheap, and easy to prepare. What more could a working mother want? Most people overlooked the fact that it didn’t taste that great and just sort of got used to eating it.

Then the next problem -

Everyone starting gaining weight. These foods were making people fat at an alarming rate.

Enter – the ‘Big’ industry

Clothing manufacturers scrambled and the ‘big’ industry was born.

Then the next problem -

These fake foods are not natural. They are not what you were designed to eat. They don’t contain the natural nutrients that your body needs to stay healthy. Diseases that were considered ‘old people’ diseases started affecting younger people. Diseases that were barely heard of started becoming common. And there was a big rash of new conditions that we never dealt with before.

Enter Big Pharma

They will develop a cure for everything. Except all the money you saved on cheap food will now be spent on prescription drugs.

Everything from ADD, depression, bi-polar, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and many more diseases have rapidly increased since the advent of these fake foods.

They blame it on things like fat, bacon, butter, eggs, meat, and carbs, but everyone ate all this stuff before. So what gives?

At this point its a very tangled web.

Many crops are grown from GMO seed. That means that the chemicals you used to be able to wash off are now bred into the plant.

These GMO foods are used in manufactured foods because they’re abundant and cheap.

These GMO foods are fed to the meat supply – which is unnatural for them as well. They grow fatter quicker too. Which is good for industry. You love it when you get those big huge chicken breasts for a song, don’t you?

But the meat supply is getting sicker too, so they add antibiotics to the feed.

So, it’s not enough that Doctors over-prescribe antibiotics, now you get them in your meat too.

Now we have anti-biotic resistant diseases.

Now the problem is – the original problem was never solved. We cannot feed the world population using natural methods.

And for the first time in many, many years, the life expectancy is going down. Your children will live a shorter lifespan than you.

The truth is, not that many people are very concerned. They will continue to eat the cheap garbage. And hopefully those of us that choose to eat natural good foods will still be able to do so.

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