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Hot dogs and sausages are foods we are often told to avoid. The scraps of meat, organs, and fat of animals are ground, spiced, and formed into sausages and dogs.
But what if we looked at these meat options from a different perspective?
Traditionally, people used all of the animal:
muscle meat
organs (eaten whole or ground into sausage)
make bone broth for soup and then grind the bones into powder to fertilize the fields
use the hides for tanning leather, etc.
I was inspired to write this after shopping in a health food store a couple of hours from home. I am a people watcher and a health educator. I can't help but notice the things people buy. The person in front of me at the checkout had a cart loaded with what I call Junk Health Food: [I observe from a space of love... wanting so badly to reach out and do some community education... but only when asked Paula, only when asked! :) ]
Be wary of anything that comes in a box, bag, can, jar, etc. If it is a packaged food product, made in a factory and not your home, be a savvy shopper and consumer. Just because it is sold in a health food store does not mean it is cell nourishing food.
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From NY Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?_r=0
Photo by Andrea Frazzetta
The Greek man above has an amazing story of health, healing, longevity, and defying medical hexing. To read his incredible story of being diagnosed by US doctors with cancer and given 9 months to live and his story of unintended healing success, click this LINK.
Human with desire for vibrant health
Real food: http://www.paulayoumellrn.com/whole-food-feeding-your-cells/
Garden and/or connection with amazing local farmers
Vibrant lifestyle habits in mind, body, & spirit
Update 2/28/21 Connection to a loving community
It is really this simple: feed the body real food; real food for body, mind, and spirit.
In a recent conversation with a client a comment was made to me when speaking about healing:
"People do not want to believe that food is the problem."
To which I replied:
"Food, real food, is not the problem. The problem is factory made food products brought to you by Nabisco, Kellogg, Post, Betty Crocker, Pepsico, Tyson, Kraft, Nestle... on and on the list of food product manufacturers goes.
Real food feeds body cells for vibrantly healthy regeneration. Food products detract from body cell health, depleting nutritional stores, and degenerating body cells contributing to degenerative diseases. (Degenerative diseases are a body composed of degenerative body cells.)
As a culture we observe the world and look to emulate those countries with a better health and longer longevity:
The French Paradox
The Okinawan diet
Mediterranean diet
Importing their culture's specific foods is not the answer. Cultures who stick to their traditional diets: food grown locally & naturally and then prepared through time honored home cooking methods are the cultures who thrive with vibrant health. No importation of foreign foods needed. Simply grow food, team up with neighbors to share the different foods you have grown and raise, and befriend local farmers who grow real food in time honored and sustainable ways... keep those farmers farming through purchasing their food and supporting their work in this world. Your health will soar, local food economy will soar, life will be vibrantly good. http://www.gardenshare.org/
Reverse these time honored practices and instead eat processed, packaged, factory made food products and your body cells suffer. To digest and get rid of these products (detox, methylate) your body must rob nutrients from your cells. Keep robbing from your cells and the cells degenerate further and further and degenerative diseases are now the norm.
Cultures who have always eaten their locally available and traditional foods create pregnancies with healthy babies who are developing with a firm foundation of healthy body cells. Feed those newborn infants (and their breastfeeding moms) real food and the baby's bodies develop with cellular health intact. Continue this good food, real food trend through the childhood and teen years and you grow up young adults with their cellular health intact. A lifetime of real food, whole food eating and you have a natural prescription, a recipe, for vibrant health and longevity.
The same feeding process for embryos, infants, teens, and all humans in general with processed, packaged food products and the reverse happens: cells degenerate and degenerative diseases are the norm.
Junk Vs. Real... Vibrant Vs. Degenerative Body Cells
Whole Health Lifestyle Choices create vibrant health & longevity, click to learn more.
This is all about re-balancing your body, mind, and spirit to create a vibrantly healthy you... inside and out. So much more than the number on the "scales!"
If you have attended my workshops or been supported by me as a client: Remember the cellular health information from the Whole Food slide show? Feed your cells well! Need to experience this workshop? Join me and the Local Living Venture on Thursday, September 25th for the start of the Whole Health and Healing Academy!
A few more tips for balancing mind, body, and soul weight.
PS Just a reminder about the Whole Health & Healing Academy that starts Thursday, September 25th. Join us to create vibrant health in your life!
Some say essential nutrients went missing when we civilized our food, and we pay for that loss with sickness and disease. This leads us to ask…
Can farming return the nutrients missing in our food?
Saturday, March 22nd at 9 AM Pacific, the Food Chain Radio show with Michael Olson hosted Dr. Daphne Miller, author of The Jungle Effect and Farmacology, for a conversation about food, nutrition, and human health.
Topics include why some primitive cultures were healthier than many civilized cultures; what happened to food when we civilized it through agriculture; and whether the nutrients we lost through agriculture can be regained through agriculture.
I invite you to listen to the recorded show on your radio, computer or mobile device: Food Chain Radio #961
This is the direct link to the 42 minute and 38 second show: http://metrofarm.com/assets/podcasts/2014-03-22_961bmissing.mp3
My beloved beets; nourishing food for the blood, liver... all of your body cells!
We live in a culture that constantly markets physical weight loss. This makes sense as keeping an your weight at your best level supports healthier and more natural physiological functions. You are as healthy as the cells you reproduce every day. Think of my writings and workshops on whole foods and cellular health.
Yes, there is much more to the equation than being a healthy weight for your body type, as we know... "skinny bitches" (men as well) have heart attacks, other health challenges, and also die young.
So we are told to eat less, exercise more, ditch the desserts, bag beverages with calories, eat superfoods that are transported from all over the earth... but what is being left out of this physical equation?
Weight loss is a body, mind, and soul experience. When we humans realize we are far more than a physical being, healing (i.e. weight loss as just one example of a healing challenge) becomes accessible and easier. We are divine beings living in our physical bodies. When we embrace our heart-mind (emotions) and heart-soul (spiritual aspect), physical healing opens up and a whole new dimension is available to us.
How to?
To step into this space, I recommend to the divine souls I work with in healing relationships, to simply start making their lifestyle choices based upon wellness. When you are contemplating what you are thinking about eating next or what you are about to put into your mouth right now, ask yourself this question: "Is this what is best for my wellness; best for every cell in my body?"
Use this question with all wellness choices:
exercise,
nurturing earlier sleep times,
one more beer or not?,
choosing a relaxation activity for self,
volunteering to help someone or help a local cause...
Truly, most people think and work from a space of: "Will this food make me gain weight; will this go right to my belly, hips, and ass?"
The belly, hips, and ass mindset only creates a deprivation and guilt cycle in our hearts, minds, and soul. If I eat it (or do not get out and exercise), I feel guilty.
I am so bad. I have no self-control, no will power, discipline. These self incriminating thoughts are pure BS.
But then... If I do not eat it, I feel I am depriving myself of something. That something then takes on more and more power in our lives because if we are depriving ourselves of it, it must be something wonderful. Generally speaking, when we evaluate this thought process honestly and from a space of wellness AND self-awareness, we can acknowledge that the "something" being deprived of truly is not a wellness, life giving, cell enhancing choice.
Life giving, nurturing choices are easier to make when our wellness is the space we live in and create from.
Positive energy begets positive energy!
Bodies come in all sizes and shapes.
Bone structure is different is all of us.
Look at your body as the gift that it is, the home for your soul to live & thrive in.
Treat it well. Honor it just as it is:
slender, small frame, juicy and voluptuous, beautiful bones of substance, etc.
