Sunday, June 3, 2007

Weekly Wellness Note #10 - The Innate Diet (cont)

On a side note before we start, if you want some cool videos to see how restoring your body's proper function can affect your life:

http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_044175719.html%0A%0A
http://wbztv.com/video/?id=30936@wbz.dayport.com

Just remember that Chiropractic doesn't treat either of these things. Chiropractic restores the integrity of your nervous system so your brain can tell your body to heal like only it knows how. We restore function, and health is the result.

So anyway, back to the diet.

But I retract that. Diet is such a bad word. It implies something temporary and dreadful. We'll say healthy and delicious eating. Expand your tastes and eat foods that you enjoy, otherwise it becomes a chore.

If you followed those initial steps for a while, you should see some significant changes within a month. By simply replacing every soda with water and your sugars with anything else, fat will start coming off and energy will start increasing.

But you don't want to plateau there, so let's start adding some more natural innate and health to your life.

- Reduce your grain consumption even further
Facts: Want to know what farmers feed cows to get them fat? grains
Want to know why animals get sick and 'need' antibiotics on farms? Get sick from eatin grains.

- Start eating your sandwiches open faced or Replace sandwiches with wraps and your carb grain consumption is cut in half.
- Step further? Get sprouted bread, buns, or wraps (Ezikiel brand)
- Turn hummus and chips or chips in salsa to: Sliced peppers, carrots, or broccoli and hummus.
- Sweet tooth? Slice some apples and dip them into fresh ground peanut butter. (Make sure your peanut butter doesn't say "hydrogenated" anywhere on it.

- Reduce your dairy consumption
- if you love cheese, try getting real cheese instead of the Krafts cheese foods
- Replace milk and cereal with eggs and fruit
- Try Whole Goat's milk or almond milk. The proteins aren't as allergenic

- Get as many leafy green vegetables in as you can. Ideally you should eat them raw. But any vegetable is better than none at all. Ice Berg lettuce doesn't count. Green Leaf and Romaine are great alternatives. Spinach, red/green/yellow peppers, and broccoli too! These should be included in every meal you can.

- Get lean, cut, unprocessed meats. Cage free, free range, grass fed are all great indicators. If not for humanitarian reasons, but for reasons that processed meat is where people get the negative 'fatty' effects of meat.
Slow cook them, and avoid frying.

When frying, it's time to start moving to something like coconut oil or butter. Get rid of those vegetable oils!

Stage 2 Breakdown:

Breakfast:
2 eggs, use salsa for some flavor instead of ketchup
1/2 grapefruit

Lunch/Dinner
Salad - Leafy green veggies, with broccoli, mushrooms, tomatoes, and peppers. Feta optional for flavor. Eat with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Add some turkey, roast beef, grilled chicken or wild alaskan sockey salmon for protein

Bison burger with 1/2 or no bun. Baked sweet potato on the side

ground bison with tortillas for tacos

Roasted chicken breast in mojo sauce. with wild rice and black beans

Homemade soups. No MSG, and avoid noodles.

Snack Options:
Nuts, pistachios, almonds, pecans, etc.
Trail mix
peanut butter and apples
vegetables and hummus
Any whole fruit just about.

This is the stage that I'm on. Since switching to this eating style, I've lost fat, gained energy, and actually saved money since I stopped eating out. I've also stopped having stomach aches and sickness and depression will cease or be much less in severity.

The biggest key. Eat till you're not hungry.

Fullness is a symptom that you ate too much. Just eat till you're not hungry anymore, and have several meals throughout the day.

That's it for this week. Questions and comments are always appreciated!

Have a topic you want me to research? Feel free to message me and I'll have all the info I can find by the next week.

Be well and stay adjusted!

Jon

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