Has there been a drastic increase in the number of people at your gym? It's a New Year and that brings on new resolutions. I was at my gym last night taking a yoga class and it was packed; loaded with people who swore that this year, they were going to improve their health. At the end of the class, the yoga teacher said something that really made me think. She asked us all to make a resolution this year to actually love and appreciate our bodies.
The entire gym was filled with individuals who appeared to be downright angry with their bodies so when this resolution was suggested, the attention in the room heightened. I thought about the concept of appreciating one's own body and immediately visions of some of my favorite foods that make the body stronger appeared in my head.
Inspired by my yoga instructor and the fact that many individuals are not even aware of some of the healthiest foods in their grocery store, I thought I'd make a New Year's resolution list of my own. I encourage you to add this to your resolutions as well.
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Read the labels.
Immediately eliminate anything with hydrogenated fats, high fructose corn syrup, MSG (google "other names for MSG" to learn all of the sneaky ways the food companies try to sneak it into our food). One thing you can do right away is to substitute healthier versions of what you already eat and drink. For instance, if you like yogurt and typically buy one of the major name brands which usually contain one or more of the following: thickeners, "natural flavors" (often code for MSG), artificial colors, too much sugar or worse yet - high fructose corn syrup and other such nonsense, try changing to an organic brand with less or preferably none of the above. Buy plain and add your own organic fruit for flavor. If you are a soda drinker you might like kombucha tea instead. It is naturally fizzy and has a little bit of a "bite" like soda.
In your recipes replace white sugar with it's unprocessed counterpart, rapadura, replace regular salt with sea salt and so on. Ultimately what you will be doing is replacing processed foods with unprocessed foods or at least less processed foods. Remember, every step of processing that a food item goes through removes more of it's nutritional value.
Good Luck!