No where will you find ANY wise lifestyle diet that encourages food with any of the following ingredients:
1. Partially or Fully Hydrogenated Oils
2. High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
3. Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
4. Sodium Nitrites
5. Refined White Sugar
6. Refined White Salt
7. Artificial Food Coloring
8. Artificial Sweeteners
If you can avoid (and, yes, you can!) these ingredients, you will already be on a good path for a real, whole food diet. The only other things I may add to this list (which I won't do in detail) are refined white flour, white rice and pretty much anything that has become "white" because all its color has been stripped from its natural state during the refining process.
OK, great. What's next?
This is where it gets really fun and why I have started my e.a.r.t.h.food series. Every day it seems I am asked these and similar questions:
- Should I eat meat?
- How much alcohol is ok?
- What about milk?
- Is soy good for me?
- I drink coffee. Is that bad?
These are not questions with black and white answers. If they were, we'd have it all figured out by now and we'd all be healthier. As I age and as I learn, I discover new shades of gray to life, and food is no exception. e.a.r.t.h.food is my attempt to address these gray food areas.
Stay tuned for my next installment of e.a.r.t.h.food when I dive into the gray area of drinking water. You never knew how simple or complicated choosing life's essential liquid could be. We all need it, we all prefer it to be safe and the earth needs us to drink responsibly.
Until then, live light, xo-C.
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