Eating nothing but fresh, healthy, preferably organic vegetables and some fruit is the very best thing you can do to improve, maintain, and have good health. And of course drink a lot of pure, non-fluorinated water, as well as green and other herbal teas, and fresh vegetable juices. Eating low carb and as gluten-free as possible makes me feel much better, and I try to have nothing with processed sugar. I do sneak an occasional bit of meat or fish, or cheese, but try to have that more as a bit of flavor than as a major ingredient. If I lived by myself, I would eat vegan.
Healthy eating sounds so very easy in theory, but is actually very difficult for most people, because the food experts are so very good at loading junk foods with the sweet, fatty, salty tastes that we all seem to love! I have had a huge struggle with eating healthy. Growing up with both parents who worked full time, my mom really loved convenance foods. Both she and my dad grew up on farms, and knew what back-breaking labor it could be to grow crops. So they thought canned, frozen, and other such things were almost miraculous! My mom gave my sister and I Carnation Instant Breakfast a lot of times, which was this powder mixed with milk that usually had lots of lumps in it. It left me very hungry, but mom thought it was perfect because it said right on the box that it was a complete breakfast. Dad still had a vegetable garden, but used copious amounts of DDT on it, since it killed the bugs really well.
Still, I did not develop a real taste for fast food until college. I had to live at home since I had to pay for all of my college expenses, so I drove back and forth to school, about 35 miles away each day, then dashed off to work as soon as my last class was over. I spent most of my college time driving in the car, and when the old clunker I drove totally died, I bought a new but cheap car, and had to work even more to make the payments. So I had little time to make food, or even sit down and eat. Making minimum wage, I loved cheap fast food meals, and could eat them while driving to school or work. The sodas kept me awake, which was great for studying! Four years of doing that in college meant a lot of fast food meals. I buried myself in work, and ate whatever junk food I could eat fast, for little money. This continued during the time I was single, throughout my 20's.
Kicking the junk food habit, and taking the time and energy to buy and prepare fresh foods has been a challenge. But the way I try to eat now is described in the first paragraph. I spent years trying to be a vegetarian, but living on French fries, grilled cheese sandwiches, and diet sodas! After getting married, I started having a lot of major health issues, and finally gave in and started eating a lot of meat, since that is how my husband and his family cooked.
However, now I can really tell when I have fallen off of my eating plan and eat too much sugar, or
gluten, or meat. For example, by having Christmas cookies that my family loves to make!
I found it rather surprising that the Bible tells you how to eat, very clearly in fact! All of the plants in the Garden of Eden were given to both humans and animals to eat. It was not until after the Flood that God seemed to grant permission to include animals in the diet. But if you compare our teeth and digestive tracts to both herbivores and carnivores, they fit in the herbivore category. There are some sharp tearing teeth, but not many! Most are for long chewing and grinding, with a long digestive tract to break down plant walls slowly.
A lot of people I talk to at the oncologist do not want to change the way they eat ONE BIT! They say their food is a comfort to them, and truly think that food would not be on store shelves or sold at fast food places if it were bad for us! Sometimes we are our own worst enemy!
Try to eat, for just one month, a lot of cooked and raw leafy greens, sweet potatoes, onions, carrots,
celery, blueberries, etc. and leave out potatoes, white rice, sugar, meat, gluten, and dairy.
Blessings!
