Most of us have busy lives and highly pressing schedules. We don’t have time to pay enough attention as we should to support our health–physical, emotional and mental. However, our health largely depends on how we eat and what we put in our body. Very often we go for frozen or other packaged foods that require a little preparation and cooking time.

Do you know that your saving time and an effort to put any food on a table has little to do with your health? Processed and packaged foods have little to none of the vitamins and minerals–nutrients we need to keep ourselves healthy. As a matter of fact, these foods have an abundance of preservatives, additives, hormons and “spices” — chemical ingredients that may damage our health. 

Nutrient-depleted, these chemical ingredients (instead of natural) are included in many products by their producers to help them bring down cost of convenience foods.  Chemicals are very cheap in modern times. We cannot blame these huge food companies. They are in a fierce race for higher revenues and profits that satisfy their own greed and make happy their shareholders. So, what the rest of us should do to protect ourselves?  We should do our own homework, gather necessary information, and keep our healthy goals in mind.

First of all, let’s start with cleaning up our diet. By diet I don’t mean ’yo-yo’ diets, which don’t work anyway. I mean a return to pure, natural foods, grown, cooked and consumed as Mother Nature intended. This is what can give us optimum health and create our wellbeing, so we can feel great and look into our and our children’s future.

Do you have difficulties to keep going every morning when you wake up? When did you last burst with energy all day long?  How long ago did you look sleepy at about 4:00PM and wanted to take a nap, but had to go on and force yourself to finish your working day? Yesterday or today? Do you feel tight and uncomfortable in your jeans or other clothes after a meal? 

An answer to all these questions is in your new, clean and green diet enriched with pure, mostly organic, farm-fresh, natural foods with essential nutrients instead of modern, processed foods with traces of pesticides. About a clean and green diet read in our next post.