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Don't Read That Ingredients Label!
Healthy, natural foods provide essential nutrients, fats, and proteins without which your body would be utterly unable to efficiently produce energy.
However, there are many misconceptions about what eating healthfully looks like, and not one day passes when there isn't something published somewhere that contradicts what you just learned the day before.
A trip to the grocery store can quickly confuse and overwhelm the uninitiated. Madison Avenue has been very busy these last 50 years creating more "foods" than even nature has been capable of thinking of. Bright colors, catchy names, brilliant packaging, and "fortified" ingredients labels all point to one thing; "foods" that the human body has never seen before.
"New and improved foods" inevitably mean manmade unbalanced foods that contain synthetic oils and processed, compartmentalized nutrients, while being depleted of fiber, trace elements, nutrients, amino acids, oils, and complex starches.
These patented creations have absolutely nothing to do with real food. It doesn’t matter whether it's a 40-30-30 energy bar or a pop tart, a much better description for these offerings would be industrial waste.
Even real foods like milk have been so industrialized that they are no longer obtainable in their natural state.
Not only that, unless you are going out of your way to learn about real food, most of the information that you are exposed to about nutrition is from the same people that gave you soda pop and the breakfast cereal of champions.
Confused? I don't blame you. Fortunately, I can break this down very simply for you. Avoid foods with ingredients labels.
Another way of saying this is that if it wasn't made by nature, it wasn't made for you. Feed yourself foods that have no ingredients label such as vegetables, whole fruit, dairy, eggs, unprocessed oils, vegetables, nuts, seeds, meats, poultry, fish, etc.
Now that's pretty easy. You can forget about fat percentage, cholesterol content, animal vs. vegetable protein, etc., and just focus on whether there's a label or not. A diet high in foods without ingredients labels will ultimately be the best one for you.
OK, Now Read The Label!
Oops, there is one more thing to remember. Even some natural foods are being radiated with x-rays, and further contaminated with dyes, additives, antibiotics, and hormones! This is a huge problem, especially for our kids. It's one thing to dose up an adult with hormones, but it's quite another to be exposing our infants and young children to these substances.
There is much evidence to suggest that the infertility that is rampant in our young men and the PMS, menstrual disturbances, endometriosis, and obesity so common in our young women originates largely from the estrogen contamination of milk, beef, and poultry.
Fortunately non-radiated, hormone free foods are available if you look for them. The worst offenders in this regard are milk, beef, eggs, and poultry. Try to make sure that you see Hormone Free somewhere on the label.
Eating For Energy
Balance is important in diet. Humans are omnivores, meaning that we are designed to have intakes of both animal and vegetable food sources. Avoid vegetarian diets as they are not natural and virtually always result in low energy production.
However, this in no way means eating a diet low in vegetables. Soluble fiber, the kind found in vegetables, is extremely important in maintaining regular bowel movements along with a natural balance of bacteria in the intestines.
So in your diet, concentrate on emphasizing vegetables and animal protein such as eggs, dairy, meats, poultry, fish, and seafood. Remember that your body is made of protein and fat. Nothing in your body is made of carbohydrate, and there are no essential dietary carbohydrates.
In particular, avoid eating carbohydrates. Dr. Shallenberger’s book Bursting With Energy goes into great detail explaining how carbohydrates rob your body of energy production.
Note that the worst carbohydrates are the refined carbohydrates, namely flour and sugar. These have very little to no fiber, and create a huge problem with insulin levels and bacterial balance in the intestines. Sugar and flour are the two banes of modern civilization, and are responsible for more misery and death than all wars combined.
Even so called “healthy” carbohydrates such as fruit, root vegetables, and beans must be limited for optimum energy production except in the case of athletes or those who engage in high intensity exercise programs. Individuals who are overweight and/or have fatigue, or who have elevated triglyceride or cholesterol levels will need to be on a low to zero carbohydrate program.
Eat Less More
Another very important thing to remember is that as we age, we require fewer calories. This is true even if our lifestyle and exercise level remains the same.
For example, a 60 year old man who has the exact same exercise level and active lifestyle that he had as a 40 year old, requires less calories to fulfill his energy needs. In our “Supersized” world, over eating is the rule rather than the exception.
The literature is replete with an abundance of studies conclusively showing that overeating shorten lifespan substantially. It is important to eat only as much as is needed to satisfy hunger.
Here are some good tips to help insure a high energy diet:
· Start off each morning with Super Immune QuickStart™ smoothie.
· For lunch have a salad with an olive oil based dressing and some cheese and/or meat.
· Around 2 PM have another Super Immune QuickStart™ smoothie.
· For supper have meat (about 1 ounce for every 20 pounds of lean body weight in men, and 1 ounce for every 30 pounds of lean body weight in women), a large serving of vegetables, and another salad.
· For a treat have some herbal tea or coffee with xylitol to sweeten.
· Avoid fruit, starches, bread, pasta, and sweets.
· Avoid sodas. sugars (except xylitol), sweets, fast food, and junk food like the plague.
· When cooking, it's a good idea to use Pam, olive oil, or butter.
· Avoid deep fried foods, and instead, learn to lightly saute the foods in a little olive oil and butter.
· Never use margarine, shortening, hydrogenated, or partially hydrogenated oils. These man made industrial wastes suppress energy production by damaging the mitochondrial membrane.
· As a general rule, make sure to limit your coffee intake to 4-6 oz. of organic coffee per day.
· Limit alcohol to one to two drinks per day. Remember that it's not so much what you take into your system that is important, but how much. This means there are no bad foods, only bad doses!
· Here's another news flash: fruit juice is not a health food. Did you know that a glass of fruit juice contains as much sugar as a coke.
· Avoid going to sleep for at least three hours after supper. You cannot fully digest your foods while you sleep, and this will ultimately lead to increased toxicity, and weight gain.
· The last rule is Dr. Shallenberger’s personal favorite, and it goes like this: Feel free to break all the above rules once a week. Let's face it. A healthy body is equipped to deal with a toxic situation periodically, and besides it give us something different to look forward to!
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