Healthy Living
More and more, our lives are filled with complex dilemmas. We desire the youth, vitality and happiness that comes with healthy living. Yet we struggle to find balance between what seems right in the moment and the long term consequences of our actions.
Sadly, the American diet has evolved over time to include more and more salt, fats and processed sugars. It's understandable, as these ingredients "over stimulate" the taste sensors in our nervous system, making us feel good for awhile.
But a growing body of scientific knowledge links these very ingredients to a rise in cases of heart disease, cancer, obesity and many other chronic diseases. Even in the short term, health is impacted. Our bodies are stressed as energy levels spike and then dive; immune systems are compromised; minor infections take hold.
In our family, as we gradually reduced our consumption of processed sugars, fats and salt, the kids' ear infections, throat aches and runny noses disappeared. Dan and Nadia both lost weight and generally feel higher energy levels and less energy variability throughout the day. We are better able to manage our stress and are more productive. We have experienced the benefits of healthy living and witnessed the miraculous ability of our bodies to heal themselves!
In many cases, processed food has been altered to increase salt, fat and sugar content to drive taste acceptance and repeated consumption. Despite the allure of convenience, low cost and fast food, it is truly our health that is at stake.
So here is the good news: the trade-offs between taste, convenience, cost and health are an illusion! Food can be prepared and our taste sensors trained to feel plenty of pleasure from dishes that nourish our bodies and drive high levels of short term and long term health outcomes.
Curious about this? Want to know more?
Achievement of positive health outcomes through nutrition is often described as a journey. We were not sages in discovering our paths along this journey. Instead, we have continuously educated ourselves in a truth that has been around since Hippocrates said "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." He lived from 460 - 370 B.C. This knowledge has been around a long time!
Here are a few links to organizations and resources that were helpful to us:
- T.Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies
- Wellness Forum
- National Health Association
- True North Health
- The China Study Community
Books:
- The China Study
- The Pleasure Trap
- Eat to Live
We are simply humbled by the possibility that we might play a role in spreading this knowledge with anyone willing to keep an open mind, accept personal responsibility and truly realize how much healing power you have within.
If you want more information or you simply want to engage with somebody who has been on this path, please write to us at
healthyflavors.inc@gmail.com
Sadly, the American diet has evolved over time to include more and more salt, fats and processed sugars. It's understandable, as these ingredients "over stimulate" the taste sensors in our nervous system, making us feel good for awhile.
But a growing body of scientific knowledge links these very ingredients to a rise in cases of heart disease, cancer, obesity and many other chronic diseases. Even in the short term, health is impacted. Our bodies are stressed as energy levels spike and then dive; immune systems are compromised; minor infections take hold.
In our family, as we gradually reduced our consumption of processed sugars, fats and salt, the kids' ear infections, throat aches and runny noses disappeared. Dan and Nadia both lost weight and generally feel higher energy levels and less energy variability throughout the day. We are better able to manage our stress and are more productive. We have experienced the benefits of healthy living and witnessed the miraculous ability of our bodies to heal themselves!
In many cases, processed food has been altered to increase salt, fat and sugar content to drive taste acceptance and repeated consumption. Despite the allure of convenience, low cost and fast food, it is truly our health that is at stake.
So here is the good news: the trade-offs between taste, convenience, cost and health are an illusion! Food can be prepared and our taste sensors trained to feel plenty of pleasure from dishes that nourish our bodies and drive high levels of short term and long term health outcomes.
Curious about this? Want to know more?
Achievement of positive health outcomes through nutrition is often described as a journey. We were not sages in discovering our paths along this journey. Instead, we have continuously educated ourselves in a truth that has been around since Hippocrates said "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." He lived from 460 - 370 B.C. This knowledge has been around a long time!
Here are a few links to organizations and resources that were helpful to us:
- T.Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies
- Wellness Forum
- National Health Association
- True North Health
- The China Study Community
Books:
- The China Study
- The Pleasure Trap
- Eat to Live
We are simply humbled by the possibility that we might play a role in spreading this knowledge with anyone willing to keep an open mind, accept personal responsibility and truly realize how much healing power you have within.
If you want more information or you simply want to engage with somebody who has been on this path, please write to us at
healthyflavors.inc@gmail.com
