What is Real Food?
In talking to people about what I do, I have been asked the Question: What do you mean by Real Food? Isn’t all food real? It’s edible? Right?
This is a great question. What is Real Food?
Real food can mean different things to different people.
Let me clarify what Real Food is…
All food is not created equal. Just because is it appears edible, does that mean you should eat it? This reminds me of a childhood saying – if your friends jumped off a cliff, does that mean you should do the same?
In moving through my health journey, my perception of food has totally changed. I now view food in a whole new light. Food is no longer just a source of pleasure (boy, do I love to eat food) and something to stop the growling tummy. For me, eating Real Food is nourishment, my medicine to heal, an opportunity to achieve my best possible health and live a vibrant and abundant life.
When it comes to food, we have a choice. Do we choose food that will serve us? Or do we choose food that depletes our body of vital nutrients while clogging and slowing down our system. We have the power to make a choice by what we put on the end of our fork. You get to choose: Do you jump off the cliff? Or do you seek a the longer path that is safe, scenic and more enjoyable.
Let me take you down that path. The path to better health through better food choices.
So back to…. What is Real Food?
Real Food is as close to its natural form as possible, not man made and not altered in any way.
To simplify it. I have two basic rules to help you change directions in your health journey:
If it comes from an animal or plant, eat it. If it coms from a factory plant, don’t eat it.
But why is Real Food important?
Food is not just carbs, proteins and fats. It is information for your body. Food is like a language, an unbroken information stream that connects to every cell in your body and talks to your DNA. The better the source (from natural whole foods) and the more undamaged the message when it arrives to your cells, the better your health will be. It is central to good health and Real Food can do more than anything else to improve one’s health and quality of life.
Even if you are not presented with any symptoms at this time. A diet of processed foods will eventually catch up with you through nutritional deficiencies. You are made from the food you eat. Your body functions on the food you eat. Every single cell in your body depends on quality nutrition for its structure and function. If cells are not provided with correct nutrition, they will struggle to perform their function optimally and this can lead to dysfunction.
Food in nature comes as a package. Nothing in nature works in isolation. Whole, unprocessed food contains all the vitamins, minerals and information needed to be utilised by the body. Processed, commercial, manmade foods (Franken-foods)are missing some of this vital information and nutritional components. Your body can’t absorb what it doesn’t recognise. Therefore, these Franken-foods place stress on your body by drawing valuable nutrition from elsewhere – creating deficiencies. As humans we think ourselves pretty smart! We know that processed food are missing some vital compounds required, therefore we replace them with synthetic vitamins – I call them counterfeited parts.
Tell me what happens when you put diesel in a petrol car?
It is not the right fuel for that motor. Diesel has components a petrol car does not need, and they will clog system. Diesel has components missing that a petrol car needs for optimal function. A petrol car can run for a while on diesel, but it will eventually breakdown.
Processed foods are like diesel to the human body. They are nutrient deficient and clog the system. Why would you put diesel (Franken-foods) in your finely tuned body?
Its your choice? You get to choose your destiny by what you choose to eat!
Every ‘body’ runs better on Real Food.
