Baby Steps to Healthy Eating

I stole the baby steps idea from Dave Ramsey. Check out his financial info if you don't know who he is.

This is notes from talks that my wife and I have given on nutrition and ways to get started. Just do one thing until you are comfortable with it and then move to the next step. Don't try to change your whole life at once, it probably won't last long. Make small permanent changes, then when you are ready make another small permanent change.

Baby Steps to Healthy Eating

1. Cut the Crap!

1. Donuts
2. Cokes (both regular and artificially sweetened)
3. Anything fried in vegetable oil (French fries, chips, etc)
4. Non fish seafood –especially fried
5. Sweets-including artificial sweeteners, some of them are worse than sugar.
   

2. Drink lots of Pure Water

• God designed water for drinking.
• Avoid all processed drinks (cokes, sports drinks, fruit juices, pasteurized milk.)
• Limit tea-(green, herbal, and black), coffee, and alcohol
• Raw milk is good
• Beware of Contaminants (chlorine, fluoride, nitrates)

3. Eat Green Vegetables

• Color is a fairly good indicator of nutrition-Darker is better
  
• Green leafy vegetables are the best (spinach, kale, collard greens, etc)
• Raw is probably better than cooked
• Probably the only thing you can’t overdo
• Fruits are good in moderation
• Organic is best

4. Exercise

• Exercising burns calories
• It makes your body function better
• Strengthens the immune system and brain

5. Eat Whole Foods

• If your great-grandparents didn’t eat it, it isn’t food
• Processing of foods removes nutrition, adds bad things to foods (sugar, MSG, preservatives, etc)
• Raw foods are good in many cases
• The less processing the better
• Some experts say grains should be avoided by most people

6. Eat Clean Meats

• God’s rules to the Jews were for their health benefits, not just spiritual rules
• Modern research has proven the wisdom of avoiding certain foods.
• God taught them to sacrifice internal and external fats, kidneys, and liver so the didn't eat them
  
• Antibiotics, hormones, and grain-fed animals make it less healthy

7. Eat Good Fats

• Many fats and oils are bad for you
• Others that you have been told are bad are really good
• Use history as a guide
• Coconut and Palm for cooking
• Extra Virgin Olive for cold use

8. Supplement Wisely

• Watch for synthetic vitamins
• Don’t use vitamins as a first line of defense
• Fill in holes in your diet
• Try superfoods
• Good digestive bacteria
• Avoid antibacterial anything
• Find natural remedies

9. Educate Yourself

• Medical doctors generally have almost NO nutritional training
• Much doctor training is funded by pharmaceutical companies
• Leviticus – by Jehovah Rophe
• What the Bible says about Healthy Living - by Rex Russell, M.D.
• The Maker’s Diet – by Jordan S. Rubin N.M.D., Ph.D.
• Dr. Mercola's Total Health Cookbook and Program – by Dr. Joseph Mercola
• The Great Physician's RX for Health and Wellness – by Jordan Rubin
• Rejuvenate your Life – by Serene Allison
• www.mercola.com
• www.naturalnews.com
• www.westonaprice.org

Of course don’t believe everything you read or hear, look at many sources and make an
educated judgment.

A simple scientific experiment: Look around and see who's healthy
Let me invite you to look at a simple experiment here. If what organized medicine says is true, then you should be able to observe that people on drugs are healthy, while all the people taking herbs and vitamins are diseased.
Go park your car in front of a pharmacy and watch the first 100 people you see buying drugs, then ask yourself, "Are these healthy people?" Look at the way they walk, their energy and their posture. Do they look healthy? Then go park your car in front of a health food store and watch people entering and exiting that store. Ask yourself again: Do they look healthy?
If you do this experiment, you'll quickly find that the unhealthy people are the ones visiting the pharmacy. The healthy people are the ones visiting health food stores, which sell natural health products and supplements. Through this simple observation experiment, we can see for ourselves that conventional medicine doesn't make people healthy. Or, at the very least, we can say that the consumption of prescription drugs is strongly correlated with states of disease, while the consumption of health food store products (natural groceries, organic produce and nutritional supplements) is strongly correlated with the absence of disease. And this observation holds true through many levels: physical health, emotional health, mental health and spiritual health.