8 Steps you should take to eat healthier right now

I just finished by interview with Joanne Neft who shared with me the most important steps you should take to eat healthier. The advice is summarized in two words… Eat real food which is the name of her cookbook. After writing the cookbook many people have thanked her for making this fun, easy and practical. There are so many life changing stories she and I both have been privileged to hear about since this is the advice I have been giving my clients for years. You will hear more about his interview, but I wanted to give you the basics of eating healthier food.

1^st Step to eating healthier food:

Buy your vegetables and fruit from the local farmer’s market. You don’t want to know how the produce is grown that you are buying from the grocery store. She suggests people go on Saturday buy what is in season and build their weekly meals around that.

2^nd Step to eating healthier food:

Buy only organic dairy. This will cut out the hormones and antibiotics you are ingesting daily that you do not need and that are wreaking havoc with your system.

3^rd Step to eating healthier food:

Eat yogurt and fermented foods including sauerkraut and pickles daily. This does not mean any old yogurt; we are talking about real Greek yogurt and Straus family yogurt which contains active cultures that aid in digestion and absorption of nutrients you eat.

4^th Step to eating healthier food:

Minimize or even stop eating food that comes from bags, boxes or cans. This is processed food that contains a lot of sodium and other chemicals to promote shelf life and it is not really real food.

5^th Step to eating healthier food:

Eat animal protein that is locally raised and pastured if possible., This includes organically raised non- caged  free range chickens, grass fed beef and line caught fish preferably from Alaska or the Pacific. Atlantic salmon is mostly farm raised and there fed in a very suspect way things like cat food.

6^th Step to eating healthier food:

Buy organic flour and grains that have organic whole wheat flour. She recommends quinoa and the rice made by the Lundberg Family Farms.

7^th Step to eating healthier food:

Enjoy some real chocolate that is made in a way that conforms to fair trade…no slave labor. The best source for this is Sweet Earth Chocolate.

 8th Step to eating healthier food:

View the food you eat as what you are. That is right you are what you eat. When you change you make these changes, you will never have to worry about being overweight, it is naturally satisfying and give you energy. Many health problems will disappear and you will look better as well.

Buy Joanne’s cookbook and start giving more importance to how you treat your body. I cannot tell you how much better you will feel if you make even some of these changes. Trust me taking these steps to eat healthier  food will change your life. Let me know if we missed anything. Share with me your story if you have already begun to awaken when it comes to what you are feeding your precious body.

I promise you. Once you start to eat real food especially locally grown and take some of the other advice I gave you, it will change your life. You will feel more energy, you will automatically lose weight without trying, your health issues will start to resolve themselves and you will look better. Share this with other people you know…these are gems.