Post #2/ Whole Food Nutrition

Whole foods are vegetables, grains and fruits...organic, whenever possible.  Conventionally grown foods not only are sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, but are grown with artificial fertilizers.  Synthetic fertilizers, used over a period of time, cause weaker plants, necessitating the need for even more chemical sprays.  If we think about it, those who eat a nutritious diet fair much better than those whose diet consists mainly of processed, packaged, empty calorie foods.  The same thing can be said for plants grown in a synthetic medium...they are weaker than those grown in an organic medium.

Whole foods supply the body with adequate amounts of balanced nutrients at the cellular level.  The key word, here, is "balanced."  All sickness stems from imbalances within our cells, frequently caused by eating  nutrient-depleted foods.  These types of foods also cause an acidic imbalance in our bodies.  The American diet is high in acid and low in alkaline foods.   Acidic foods are protein, packaged and processed foods.  Alkaline foods are mostly fruits and vegetables.  Look at your plate...it should contain 75% vegetable and 25% protein.  It's that basic.  A balanced, whole food diet will help prevent many of the degenerative diseases that plague this country.

The other evening, we had our grandson over for dinner.  We had roasted chicken with roasted vegetables.  He likes the leg, so he had a chicken leg with servings of the following vegetables:  broccoli, parsnips, carrots, sweet potatoes and red skinned potatoes.  I can tell you he never ate a parsnip before that evening.  He happily ate everything on his plate, which he proudly proclaimed several times to me.  The next night, he ate brussel sprouts.  I just called them, "vegetables" and he ate all of them on his plate.  Later, I told him what they were.  This is simply to illustrate that we can introduce new or unusual vegetables to children without making a bit deal about it.  I served him a plate that contained the 75%/25%  portions.  We also had walnut and dark chocolate chip biscuits and strawberry mousse for dessert (recipes on my website).

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