Finding Real Food
Ever since I made my video about the supermarket, people have been asking me where I shop and what I eat. A lot of the time, I do shop at the supermarket but I just avoid processed foods and anything irradiated or GMO. Simple. But when I get the chance, I go down to our local farmer's market, Atwater Market. It is really worth it when it comes to meat, because the stuff at the supermarket doesn't taste nearly as good and the animals were probably not treated very well at all. At the farmer's market, you can get just about anything, but it is especially good for produce, bread, and cheese, including raw milk cheese.Plus it's a fun trip to a nice place and your shopping supports the local economy instead of the corporate giants. Here is the low-down on fruit codes: 4-digit code starting with 4: conventionally grown 4- digit code starting with 3: conventionally grown but irradiated. This most often includes papayas, oranges, and pomegranates. It can also include pineapples, but they don't always have stickers, so you can't always be sure. 5- digit code starting with 9: organic. 5-digit code starting with 8: GMO! Fortunately, they are rare among fresh produce with tags, but packaged fruit like strawberries and tomatoes can be GMO and not have stickers because they are in a box, so I try to make sure that I buy organic or at least local when it comes to those two. Article on fruit irradiation re-posted on my website: naturalbaby.info/Fruit_Irradiation.html After I had my son, I needed to lose about 30 lbs and I was able to do this pretty easily, without any special diet or real effort, just by eliminating processed food and sugar. When you get rid of those two, it's pretty easy to eat healthy and lose weight. I also started to eat foods raw a lot more. I stopped cooking the broccoli and cauliflower because I realised they tasted better that way anyway. I had consulted a nutritionist and she recommended cutting out fat, limiting mu avocado consumption, but I continued to eat fats because I found that if I cut out the fat, I was hungry a lot. I eat as much fat as I want, believe it or not- but when I say fat, I mean fats in whole foods like eggs, butter and avocados, not french fries! From my experience, it's really the processed food and the sugar that is the problem when it comes to weight loss and poor nutrition.
