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Good Nutrition on the Go | by Jodi Smith
In the today's world, quick seems to be the main word in our vocabulary. Unfortunately, we often sacrifice good nutrition for fast food that is not necessarily good food. This doesn't have to be true. What if you could have good food quick? Would you be interested? If so read on…
Many times the best food is the most simple food. Think for a minute, you are in too big a hurry to have a good breakfast of cereal, toast and juice, so you buzz through the drive in window of the corner restaurant. There you get a meal of excess fat, sodium, white flour and calories. You eat it and feel bloated and guilty, but full nonetheless. You could have had and apple and a handful of raw almonds, and you would have consumed fiber, nutrients and not felt bloated. It would have taken less time and even cost less, but most importantly you would be building your body rather than tearing it down.
We eat over 40% of our meals away from home and we spend $105 billon on fast food. We want instant coffee, instant tea, instant food with no mess and no preparation-but all the nutrition. We buy food because it is wrapped in pretty wrappers, it smells good and tastes good. Seventy-eight percent of shoppers said that their snack food purchases were made strictly on impulse. Our palates have become addicted to fabricated and technologically manipulated foods.
We forget that disease is not an on-off situation where we are sick or well, but it is rather a series of events. A sequence where a person goes through a cycle of accumulating degeneration and ultimately developing a distinct set of symptoms that can be labeled disease. The hardest job a doctor has is convincing a patient that life-style, especially diet could be directly or at least indirectly responsible for his symptoms. Researchers at UCLA School of Medicine Department of Pathology concluded that dietary restrictions using nutrient-enriched diets increased the mean and maximum lifespan inhibited the occurence of many spontaneous cancers. They concluded it does matter what and how much we eat.•
Jodi Smith has been a nutritional consultant in the Indpls. area for the past 18 years. She is the former Food and Nutrition Editor of the Saturday Evening Post. She is also the hostess for Jodi's Cupboard, and Focus on Family Health heard on WXIR 98.3 FM and WBRI AM1500. She is the author of A Gift of Health and a video series Steps to Better Health. Jodi, her husband and 5 children reside in Pittsboro In. where they raise naturally grown beef and other farm products. Jodi Smith is available for personal consultations, or speaking engagements. You may reach Jodi at 317-466-3636 or e-mail her at dsmith@netride.com
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In the today's world, quick seems to be the main word in our vocabulary. Unfortunately, we often sacrifice good nutrition for fast food that is not necessarily good food. This doesn't have to be true. What if you could have good food quick? Would you be interested? If so read on…
Many times the best food is the most simple food. Think for a minute, you are in too big a hurry to have a good breakfast of cereal, toast and juice, so you buzz through the drive in window of the corner restaurant. There you get a meal of excess fat, sodium, white flour and calories. You eat it and feel bloated and guilty, but full nonetheless. You could have had and apple and a handful of raw almonds, and you would have consumed fiber, nutrients and not felt bloated. It would have taken less time and even cost less, but most importantly you would be building your body rather than tearing it down.
We eat over 40% of our meals away from home and we spend $105 billon on fast food. We want instant coffee, instant tea, instant food with no mess and no preparation-but all the nutrition. We buy food because it is wrapped in pretty wrappers, it smells good and tastes good. Seventy-eight percent of shoppers said that their snack food purchases were made strictly on impulse. Our palates have become addicted to fabricated and technologically manipulated foods.
We forget that disease is not an on-off situation where we are sick or well, but it is rather a series of events. A sequence where a person goes through a cycle of accumulating degeneration and ultimately developing a distinct set of symptoms that can be labeled disease. The hardest job a doctor has is convincing a patient that life-style, especially diet could be directly or at least indirectly responsible for his symptoms. Researchers at UCLA School of Medicine Department of Pathology concluded that dietary restrictions using nutrient-enriched diets increased the mean and maximum lifespan inhibited the occurence of many spontaneous cancers. They concluded it does matter what and how much we eat.•
Jodi Smith has been a nutritional consultant in the Indpls. area for the past 18 years. She is the former Food and Nutrition Editor of the Saturday Evening Post. She is also the hostess for Jodi's Cupboard, and Focus on Family Health heard on WXIR 98.3 FM and WBRI AM1500. She is the author of A Gift of Health and a video series Steps to Better Health. Jodi, her husband and 5 children reside in Pittsboro In. where they raise naturally grown beef and other farm products. Jodi Smith is available for personal consultations, or speaking engagements. You may reach Jodi at 317-466-3636 or e-mail her at dsmith@netride.com
Join the FREE Fitness Club Now for Weight loss, Strength and Fat Burning Workouts!
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