want to be healthy?

its common sense really.

How much sugar do you eat or drink?

Food Revolution

If you are eating a bagel or even worse nothing at all almost every morning, pizza, processed deli meats,  or fast food most of the week for lunch, pasta or Chinese take-out several times a week for dinner, any kind of sugary drink at least once a day, its seriously time to re-evaluate your eating habit.

Yes we do sell bagels, buttery croissants  and drinks organic or not loaded with sugar. There is nothing wrong with having a bagel or croissant once in a while. Even I need to give in to my Chinese take-out/taco bell cravings. However, if this is 80% of your weekly meal, its time for a change. You may be feeling fine now, but wait til your age catches up to you.

In fact your body may be telling you something now, but you just are not listening.

Some symptoms caused by poor eating habits:

• Constipation
• head aches
• feeling lethargic
• allergies
• diabeities
• kidney stones
•  high cholesterol
• lack of concentration
•  regular colds
• pale skin color

these are just some of the symptoms caused by poor eating habits. Usually we address these symptoms by taking over the counter medication rather than getting to the root of the cause which if not addressed can cause you to have a very unfulfilling life as you get older.

Eat well now so you don’t have to pay later.

We know how hard it is to eat healthy, so we will be working on helping you make it easier.

We are working on completely revising our menu to help everyone eat better by early 2011.

my daughter eats her fruits and veggies

researchers at the University of California, Berkeley did a 3 year study examining the difference between children who participated in a edible schoolyard program and those who didnt. Apparently the children who helped garden and helped cook the food they harvested ate 1 and a half servings more fruit and vegetables.

hmmmmmm, sounds a lot like what I did with my daughter. and I really didnt need an expert to tell me this.

it just seemed like common sense to me. In fact this was common practice in the old days.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/health/policy/25vegetables.html

kids eating a proper diet starts with the parents eating a proper diet. until then, the chain cannot be broken.

what do chickens eat?

Via @nprnews: Egg Farmers At Center Of Salmonella Outbreak Speak Out | http://t.co/c2zDsXV

the egg farmer believes the root cause of the salmonella may be 'meat and bone meal' found in the chicken feed?!

So, lets do a common sense exercise here. growing up as a kid, going to parks, visiting zoos, feeding the pigeons and ducks in the parks or those PBS shows, I really can't remember birds being fed meat unless it was a predatorial bird such as an eagle, a hawk, a vulture, etc.......

I really can't remember chicken eating meat.

I think the real question 'the house panel' should be asking the egg farmer is, 'why are you feeding the chickens bones and meat in the first place?

Mr President, please make a stand and fight for our health! among other things.

If only our food were to be properly farmed, and most of the country were to eat properly, maybe we could almost eliminate the need for healthcare.

Its about time doctors do more than prescribe medicine that just numbs the pain, or prescribe surgery for the sake of surgery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/dining/22doctors.html

I like the doctor's quote at the end of the article. As I mentioned on this blog, common sense is difficult to find in people these days. A little common sense can go a long way.

where does your food come from?

Creating a garden is about building an ecosystem.  You take your decomposed organic material (grass clippings, kitchen organic material) to mix into the soil which provides the nutrients for the plants. A rich soil provides food for earthworms. the plants grow and attracts insects, which provides food for birds and other critters, which help pollinate your plants. One sign that you have a thriving ecosystem is when you see earthworms and other insects that help your garden thrive.  You won’t find any life on a factory farm. The soil is basically dead from all the pesticide and weedicide. You’ll never see an earthworm. Its also void of any nutrients because organic material is never mixed in. Instead the soil is given its nutrients through chemical fertilizers which eventually renders the farmland dead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/business/energy-environment/11solar.html

A healthy garden is full of life. Ladybugs are commonly used in organic farms to fight off insects that would eat your crop.

I'd like to harvest honey next.

We need to take a step back and think about just where it is our food comes from.