Rebel With a Fork

  Are you looking for a way to lose weight, have better health, protect your body from serious disease, have more energy, slow the aging process, and look great longer?

Silly question. Isn’t everyone?

And what about your kids?

Wouldn’t you like them to be thin and healthy,

Get better grades in school?

Have fewer behavior problems?

A healthy diet can do all of that.

UGH, right?

I mean, there’s a million sites out there about healthy eating. Make that 19,700,000. And after all that, you still haven’t found a healthy eating plan that you’re willing to live with, right? Until now.

You are about to get hundreds of quick and easy recipes you and your family will love.

I rarely spend more than a half hour to put a great fresh meal on the table. Can you imagine eating a great fresh dinner every night? Wouldn’t that be like heaven on earth? Imagine eating things like

• Pecan Crusted Chicken
• Baked Mostaccioli
• Mexican Stuffed Chicken Breasts
• Aztec Shrimp Salad
• Dinner Worthy Chicken Salad
• Garlic Crumbed Tomatoes
• Almond Crusted Tilapia with Raspberry Sauce
• Southwest Marinated Steak with Grilled Peppers
• Strawberry-Banana French Toast
• Spanish Omelets

That’s just a small taste of the great recipes inside. They’re so easy, even a Dad can manage them Even my teenage daughter is amazed at how easy it is.

Yes, even you can make this kind of food at home, in about a half hour.

But your new skills won’t stop there!

You’ll know what to eat to ease arthritis pain, or asthma, or lower blood pressure, or reduce your risk of cancer, or even ease a toothache. You’ll be able to find the answers with a few clicks of your mouse.

You’ll find the answers to perplexing questions like -

• Why can’t I lose weight?
• Why do I have cravings?
• Why do my kids act out?
• Why can’t I concentrate?
• How can my kids get better grades in school?
• How can I stop suffering from allergies?
• What foods are natural antibiotics?
• Are eggs really bad for you?
• My margarine says it’s heart healthy. Is it?
• I only drink diet pop. Why am I getting fatter?

Login and find the answers to all these perplexing questions, and some great fast recipes to enjoy tonight!

I have kept quiet on the egg issue because frankly, other people have really picked up the ball on this issue and I’m sure you’ve seen at least one of the video clips of how deplorable the commercial chicken farms are.

I’ve even had people tell me they want to raise their own chickens. One town not too far from here has revised their ordinances to allow raising chickens.

So, we know we don’t want eggs from chickens raised in small cages and dirty disgusting conditions.

And we know we don’t want eggs that come from chickens who have been pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. Except that chickens raised in the disgusting deplorable conditions would have to have antibiotics.

So, we think that farmstand eggs from local farmers are the healthiest choice, right? They run free, the coops are clean. Unfortunately, there’s still one more little issue.

What are the chickens fed?

I was talking to a small farmer recently about her eggs. She said she won’t be able to call them organic. Seems she had switched to a cheaper feed to save money.

Cheaper feed is GMO corn.

And eggs are a highly nutritious food. I know you’ll say, “Oh, but the cholesterol!” Turns out that’s a bunch of hooey too. When I was growing up, lots of people at 2 or 3 eggs every morning, and they weren’t anywhere near as sick as people are now. I’m not saying to load up on eggs, but heck – a good Sunday morning breakfast is a real treat. And omelets make a fast, inexpensive dinner – even if you bought organic eggs.

If you want the healthiest eggs, you have to either buy organic, or raise your own. I saw that one of the hot rising products at Clickbank is on building Chicken Coops. Or there’s another hot one on keeping backyard chickens.

I want to have organic vegetable gardens grown with heritage seeds, a windmill, and solar panels. But do I want to raise chickens? I don’t know about that.

Maybe there’s a chicken group, you know like the share croppers groups? Where you just pay your share of the upkeep.

But if you’re looking for ways to make some extra money, there are lots of people looking for locally produced food these days. And don’t forget about jams, preserves, and other food goodies.

I’m making myself hungry. Time to go pick something good to eat

This is my attempt at a healthy eating inspirational/motivational video.

Let me know how I did.

Did this inspire you?

I was talking to Mary’s husband tonight. You might remember that Mary died of a massive stroke a couple of years ago at only 47 years old, leaving her husband and 3 kids behind.

To add to the grief, last winter he lost his job and hasn’t been able to even get an interview. Its a common problem here. I’m surrounded by professionals who don’t even get a bite on their resumes.

So Mary died early, with no life insurance. He lost his job, and now they are in real danger of losing their home.

A little bit of stress, would you say?

His sister even said he’s aged 10 years.

Now add to that – he smokes and they don’t eat right.

He tells me he can cook. I don’t know about that. After Mary died, his father said he couldn’t even make himself a sandwich. Everytime I talk to him around dinner time, he’s making hamburger helper.

Tonight I said, “what about a salad?”

He said, “There’s some sort of vegetables in it. That works.”

I want to reach out and strangle people sometimes. But I know that like most people, he won’t change until he has a life threatening episode.

How about you?

How are you feeling today?

Are you healthy, full of energy, and living life?

If not, how is that affecting your family?

How would it affect your family if you were to get seriously ill, or god-forbid, died?

Will you be able to bear looking down from heaven to see your family suffering?

Especially when you know it didn’t have to be that way? You could have changed it.

They’re even talking about putting children on cholesterol medications.

They’re saying our children are expected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Look at your children right now. Is this the kind of legacy we want to leave?

Login and find something really fun to make for dinner today.

If you haven’t read the Rebel Vow in a while – read it again!

Will being healthy make you more successful?

Not directly, but it will give you the energy and self confidence you need to make it. Besides, it’s hard to accomplish much when you don’t feel good, isn’t it?

And adding medical bills to your problems probably won’t help much either.

Here’s an old clip from Jack Lalanne on the subject –

Let’s login and plan our food for the day, OK?

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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Why does anyone do anything?

It’s either to increase pleasure, or avoid pain. That is scientifically proven. They teach this important fact in advertising school.

So, if you now know that is how your mind works, how can you use this knowledge to reach your goals?

For most of your life, healthy eating has been associated with pain. You think of eating food that tastes bad, right?

I can tell you til I turn blue standing on a stack of bibles that its not true – but its going to be a hard sell – isn’t it? You’re just not going to believe me until you try it for yourself – and that just may be a cold day in you know where.

But, if tomorrow you walk up the stairs and you’re short of breath and your heart is pounding out of your chest – now you might start thinking, “what did she say about eating healthier?”

Now the fear of pain is more real for you – and you want to avoid it. You don’t want to have a heart attack.

NOW you start thinking about all the things you read about all the toxins in foods, and fat and salt and sugar and, and, and. Your head is racing trying to find the answer to what to do to avoid having that heart attack – quick!

You may not have even really noticed that you don’t have the energy to play with your kids, or your grandkids.

You may not have realized that you’ve been letting things slip around the house because you just don’t feel up to it.

Oh sure, you know that you’ve gained weight, but hasn’t everyone? That’s normal, right? You don’t like it, but you’ve been led to believe that its too hard, even impossible to change that.

And your joints hurt, but you attribute that to just getting older.

Its not until you have that one moment that’s a real wake-up call to what’s coming that you really start to get serious.

What if there were a way to change your thinking before you have a terrifying event?

Now I don’t want you walking around thinking you’re going to have a heart attack or convinced that you’re going to get cancer. That way of thinking is not healthy either. Some scientists believe that you can actually bring on disease by thinking that way.

So what else can we do?

When I was growing up, a lot of the foods people eat now had a real stigma.

Only poor people ate ‘instant’ foods. Nobody would serve that nasty cheap stuff to their families, and certainly never, never to company.

Potato chips were what you got with your sandwich if your couldn’t afford fries.

Only kids drank pop. As you grew into an adult and had more refined tastes you drank coffee, iced tea, and alcohol. Even rum and coke was for ‘kids’. I’m not condoning drinking – that’s just the way it was.

And I don’t care how you package it, but drinking another animals body fluids always grossed me out. Especially thick fluids that make your mucus thicker. And now there’s all sort of chemicals, hormones, antibiotics and puss in it? No way I’m touching that! Yeah, I’m talking about milk.

Those kinds of thoughts have stuck with me to this day. But I’m finding that those thoughts aren’t strong enough for most people because they don’t connect with your experience. So I came up with a few thoughts that you can relate to.

Here are some Rebel Mind Tricks that will stick with you, and change the way you look at the food you’re about to eat.

The next time you go to eat something where the grease covers your fingers, or even drips down your hand – think of what that grease would look like in a frying pan on your stove in an hour. Picture that gooey mess. Is that what you want running through your body?

The next time you sit down to eat a really big chicken breast, ask yourself how in the world that chicken got breasts bigger than yours? How many growth hormones did that chicken have to eat to get boobs that big?

What do aching joints and wool sweaters have in common? Think about how an old wool sweater feels against your skin. How itchy and irritating it is. That’s what whole wheat and milk do to your joints, just irritating them to no end.

The next time you go to bite into a fake food, think of the veggie pets post and how far they are willing to go to mutate your foods. Appetizing, isn’t it?

Girls – we’ve all had that lazy boyfriend sitting on the couch with his feet on the coffee table, drinking a beer and wanting to know what you’re making for dinner. That fast food meal is just like him. It does nothing for you and completely drains you.

Now think about a cool refreshing glass of cranberry juice. Oh how good it feels as it removes plaque from your teeth and arteries, and rushes to sooth those irritated joints, and flush nasty toxins out of your kidneys.

Ever notice how broccoli kind of looks like pac-man? It acts like it too – chasing excess hormones and other toxins out of your system.

Like onions and garlic? My grandfather always used to say that if you ate onions and garlic, you’d never have cancer. My daughter had heard that so many times in her life, she’s even telling her friends.

Got a big meeting tomorrow? Picture yourself on top of your game. Now eat food that will provide you energy and clear thinking.

The next time you’re going to spend half a fortune on some miracle anti-again creams, think about buying a cantaloupe and getting enough sleep instead. You’ll be able to buy a new car with the money you save.

How about you? Can you come up with some mind tricks to share? Leave them in the comments!

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