What is Real Food?

I was raised on the Standard American Diet.  Being a single mom with two children, my mother got government assistance and we were raised to eat what the government approved of.  I remember every month standing in line for that "government cheese", the big loaf of what they deemed as Cheddar (although us kids had many conversations about "something just doesn't taste right about it").  I was the dirty, shoeless kid giving food stamps for home run pies for my weekly breakfast supply.  It took me many years to notice the glares from adults who looked down upon me for using this government aid. I was just a kid.  And for our family food stamps= life with food and the more food we got for the buck, the more we could make the food supply stretch to next month.  So I grew up and eating highly processed, government funded food. It was cheap food and it was nutrient-dead food.  But we didn't question it, we gave thanks for what we got.  And my health deteriorated.
By the time I moved out of the house at 18, I had a mouth full of amalgam fillings, severe acne on my back and big discolored spots all over the warm areas of my body (Tenea Versicolor).  Both of these are symptoms of a body's toxicity and/or overgrowth of yeast.  Every time I went to the doctor, they prescribed creams for the acne and for the Tenea, recommended me covering head to toe in Selsum Blue, an anti-dandruff shampoo to kill the fungus.  Every time I did this the skin spots would fade for a month or so and come back. Later in my life I learned it must be healed from the INSIDE.
Inside our bellies lie this amazing bacteria that digests food, builds our immune system, and facilitates many hormone processes vital to health. This bacteria, or Gut Flora, flourishes with live organic matter (i.e. vegetables, fruit, probiotics like cultured milk, kombucha, kimchi).  It is compromised or weakened with things such as sugar, processed foods, antibiotics. If the gut flora is weakened, the immune system is weakened and many chemical processes for body function are compromised. This can lead to allergies, weak bones, tooth decay, and many other illnesses/disease.
Back to the food question: What is Real Food?
Real food Feeds the body. Real Food has nutrients to heal and strengthen the body. Real food also detoxifies the blood and lymph, helps the colon release waste so that the body can remain healthy. The only food that can do all of these things is Organic, Whole Food. Vegetables, Fruit, grains, Grass-fed animals, Raw and unrefined oils.  Plants are grown with nutrient rich Soil that is built by decaying matter, not chemical fertilizers. Animals eat what they naturally would eat and in an environment they would naturally live and be healthy.  Oils are cold-pressed, uncooked and unhydrogenated.  The more unprocessed food we consume, the better our bodies can digest and assimilate the nutrients. And if we want to be Healthy we must begin by taking responsibility for what we Consume. I choose to consume Real Food. And the more I do, the more I feel life force energy returning to every cell of my body!


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