Eating to Feed your Body - the foundation of good health.

There is so much information out there, often conflicting, that its hard to know what you should be eating to protect your health and longevity.  It can seem so complicated!  But don't be discouraged, eating is a habit and the key is to make small changes, in stages, that add up over time. And remember, it's often more important what you add rather than what you are taking away, especially at the start.

The easiest way to think of it is that you are eating to feed your body and reduce toxic load (exposure to anything that provides no benefit but your body has to process out like sugar or chemicals).  This shifts your whole perspective and causes you to look at food in a different way.  And the best part is, if you feed your body what it needs, it will give so much back to you in  the form of optimal health and lots of energy to enjoy your life. 

It is so important to consciously eat with a focus on nutrition. Our modern lifestyles today create deficiencies in several key vitamins so unless you are actively supplementing, our body is already not getting what it needs. Then, there are the natural barriers and challenges to our bodies being able to actually extract the nutrients and vitamins from the food we eat.  What people often do not realize is how far just a little effort can go.  Our bodies want to heal, they are all about healing.  If you even give them just a little of what they need they will respond immediately.

A great website for tracking your food and what your diet may be deficient in is www.checkyourfood.com. It's a free all-in-0ne, food, calorie & nutrition tracker.  Getting in the habit of paying attention to what you are actually putting into your body is a good place to start.

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