Colorful Food

My son is so creative with his food sometimes. He made me oatmeal.

Isn’t he so sweet? I tell him he should be a cook. Or maybe a car mechanic. That way, I won’t have to fork out the thousands to have my car fixed. Yeah. Too many young people want careers in computers today. A nephew of mine is interested in making computer games– drawing the animated characters and designing stuff for them. What kind of career is that? I don’t know, maybe I’m showing my age, but making games isn’t a REAL job, it’s a hobby! At least they’ll keep the document scanning software companies in business….

We’re reading in our health book that colorful food, which is naturally attractive, is very healthful. Not artificial colors, of course! The bright reds, greens, purples, yellows and pinks of food. YUM. By the way, did you ever stop to realize that very few foods are truly blue? There’s blueberries, and …. and… I can’t think of anything else. Can you???

Anyway, colorful foods contain antioxidants and phytonutrients and all sorts of yummy stuff that your body needs. Raw is better for most fruits and vegetables, too.

Oddly enough, I like the appeal of bright red foods, but I don’t like to eat them very much. I like the colors of tomatoes, red peppers, etc, but I don’t like to eat them. However, I do like strawberries. I’ll eat anything green.

How about you? Are you attracted to one color over another? Do you like the color AND the taste, or just one over the other?

First Taste of Raw Meal Drink Mix

YUK.

I’d mentioned that I was going to get some Garden of Life Raw Meal drink mix, to improve my poor health. The stuff came in the mail and I had my first real big glass of it today.

*gag*

Wow, this stuff is mean. MEAN.

The powder is the consistency of light chalk. You scoop two large scoops into 16 oz of water. And down the hatch (if you can).

I attempted to mix a small amount with orange juice, and it wasn’t terrible. Then I decided to try it straight. YUK YUK YUK! But I drank it. I held my breath and DOWN the HATCH. After drinking it, my body shuddered. This stuff isn’t cheap, either– $42 for the jug of powder that supposedly lasts for two weeks. I’d much rather spend my money on gadgets or cheap printing, sure! But I need to improve my health. I’ve reached “critical” now.

But I need to have a health boost like this. After 5 months of intense heavy labor during the renovation, my health tanked. I suffered through one of the worst humid summers in New York State history, ate poorly, got little sleep… it took its toll. I’m a wreck!

My hair is now starting to grow back (yay!), and my skin is starting to show signs of being fresh and clear again. But my energy level is very low. I’m hoping this Raw Meal thing does the trick.

Going to Try: Garden of Life Raw Meal

I saw a friend of mine drinking this weird-looking green-drink recently. She said it was “Raw Meal” from Garden of Life. I tasted it and —ICK— it tasted like grass pulp. But the stuff is terribly, terribly nutritious. So I ordered some. I’m waiting for it to come in the mail, and I’ll be giving a review and maybe some tips on how to improve the taste.

I need to improve my health. After having Child #4, my health deteriorated quickly. I was very anemic and lost that youthful oomph I’d always had. I have always worked very hard physical labor all my life, and never really ate well or took care of myself. Now that I am older, my body is showing signs of unhappiness with all my neglect and hard toil. And the extra weight I’d gained over the years hasn’t helped at all. I considered taking the best diet pills and vitamin supplements… and I do still try.. but I am horrible with taking pills.

So I’m looking to eat better. The Raw Meal will help. It has 100% of everything! I’d read that adding fruit or juice to the mix helps with the taste. I’ll be experimenting!

On My Bookshelf: The Seven Pillars of Health

The kids and I have started reading this book. It’s the Seven Pillars of Health, by Dr. Donald Colbert. The kids are reading it and doing workbooks based on it as part of their Health curriculum. It’s a really neat book!

We’ve only gotten through the first “Pillar,” water. The book is set up on a 50-day schedule, but we are taking it slower and will finish the course in about 25 weeks. The chapter on water is very interesting, I have always had an interest in such things all my life, so I like the additional studies and new developments that are presented in the book.

For example, did you know that many brands of bottled water are merely jugs of tap water from another source. Onec bottled water company even gets its water from the Detroit River! And the plastic jugs that water is stored in is the most toxic form of plastic? the plastic compounds slowly leach into the water, causing more harm than good!

Our bodies need alkaline water, but most of the water in our water supply is highly acidic. Acidic water (and foods) force our body to work very hard to detoxify the acids. People with highly acidic bodies have health problems such as arthritis, other inflammations, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue. We don’t need more pharmaceutical drugs to help us! We need good water, good nutrition, and calcium supplements and stuff!

By the way, did you know that the water supply is filled with the traces of pharmaceuticals that people take? The water treatment plant chemicals are unable to filter these drugs out…. so you are drinking those traces of drugs when you drink municipal tap water, too.

It’s an eye-opening book. And it shows how EASY it is to change our habits for good health. I’ll post more about it as we continue the course. But from what I have seen so far, I can highly recommend it!

Beets Are SO Good For You

My local news online had this as “big news” today, but it’s actually “old news”: Beets are very, very good for you.

Duh! Haven’t our moms been telling us that for, like, FOREVER?! I chuckle that scientists do all these expensive “studies” to “discover” things when people — especially moms– have known it to be true for centuries. :-p

ANYWAY.

Beets are great for you! They are even better for you than medicine!

Daily Glass Of Beet Juice Can Beat High Blood Pressure, Study Shows

Researchers at Barts and The London School of Medicine have discovered that drinking just 500ml of beetroot juice a day can significantly reduce blood pressure. The study could have major implications for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.

… the research reveals that it is the ingestion of dietary nitrate contained within beetroot juice – and similarly in green, leafy vegetables – which results ultimately in decreased blood pressure. Previously the protective effects of vegetable-rich diets had been attributed to their antioxidant vitamin content.

Professor Ahluwalia and her team found that in healthy volunteers blood pressure was reduced within just 1 hour of ingesting beetroot juice, with a peak drop occurring 3-4 hours after ingestion. Some degree of reduction continued to be observed until up to 24 hours after ingestion. Researchers showed that the decrease in blood pressure was due to the chemical formation of nitrite from the dietary nitrate in the juice.

I hope this news throws Big Pharma into a tizzy. It should.

Eating raw foods is SO GOOD for you. We have been eating pure crap in our society for decades. That processed, refined, pre-packaged, corn-syrup-laden junk that’s been pumped into our bodies for 60, 70 years is causing our demise. We must eat better. It’s obvious that God has provided everything we need to live long, fresh, healthy lives. And it isn’t by eating canned peaches and Doritos!! Raw foods will reduce your waistline, too! Like a wand similar to weightlosswand.com, raw foods will balance your metabolism and your health. Yay!!

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