Decreasing Toxicity: Increasing Nutrients (continued)

The next step is to decrease the chemical/ refined foods and increase our nutrients.  The best way to obtain your vitamins is from food when you can (as you are learning from "Vitamin Code" the book of the month).  The vitamin supplements are there because most of us don’t have the time to spend in the kitchen.  Even I feel that washing veggies can get tedious, but I do it because it is the best way to nourish my family.  You body will not absorb the “enriched” processed food vitamins any better than it will the processed crystallized junky vitamins.

So this week we will work on decreasing our intake of all the junky stuff that just fills our bodies with nothing but toxins.  This week we will decrease any trans fats (also known as hydrogenated oils), MSG, BHT, BHA, TBHQ (which eliminates many fast food restaurant all together), aspartame, reduced iron, RDHD (usually found in refined milk), artificial colors and flavors, (be careful of natural flavors too) and high fructose corn syrups.  It is good not to get rid of these things too quickly.  Take the week (or even take two if you need to, there’s no rush) and finish anything you have in your home with these ingredients.  Now, as we decrease the toxins we will increase the nutrients with the new foods that you will buy.  Start buying more organic fruits and vegetables.  Start trying a variety of organic dark leafy green veggies this week; kales, chards, spinach, broccoli, arugula, dandelions and dark salad greens.  If you can’t get into the flavor of the greens, ease yourself into it by juicing them with carrot and apple (see the vitamin juice recipe in Wellness Café on the Whole Health Destinations page).  The carrot and apple will sweeten the juice and add extra vitamins.  This is how I eased myself into the habit of dark leafy greens, now the very mention of them makes me salivate!  Start becoming aware of seasonings too.  Be careful of marinades, for they often have ingredients that you are trying to avoid now.

So we are inching closer and closer toward a diet that contains mostly real food!  Your body will thank you as mine did and still does!