only will you be healthier, most people will lose weight following these directions if they need to.

The KEY idea for abundant health is to eat fresh nutrient-dense whole foods as close to their natural state as possible and avoid the things in your life that are harmful or health robbing. The majority of our food supply has been refined, bleached, chemically preserved, sterilized, homogenized, artificially colored and flavored, hydrogenated, synthetically fortified and enriched, defibered, denatured, canned, frozen, and exposed to hundreds of harmful chemicals. It is difficult for me to imagine how anyone would consider these types of foods capable of providing all the minerals, vitamins, enzymes, phytochemicals, cofactors, electrolytes, and essential fatty acids necessary to support a healthy lifestyle. Just because you can put it in your mouth and chew it does not make it food.

The guidelines may seem long, restrictive, and hard to follow. Start slowly on this journey to health and try to involve your whole family. Some of the dietary suggestions may go against what you have heard or read in the past. An ant eats an elephant one bite at a time, so should you take one bite at a time. If we do not make the time and effort to improve our health and remain healthy now, then we had better make time later for disease and illness.

Remember, being healthy is a choice! Science has proven that you do have control of your health by controlling the things you put into your body, what you do to your body, and the toxins to which you expose it. By elimination and avoidance of the things that take away health, while increasing the health-improving things such as better nutrition, exercise, adequate sunlight exposure, fresh air, etc. we will enjoy abundant healthy rewards.

Good Luck and Here's to Good Health!

Let's begin with the foods that must be avoided, many of which have become staples in the average American's diet:

Foods to Avoid:

I) White sugar, white flour and polished white rice.

These three things are some of the biggest health robbers over which we have control. White flour was actually banned in this country at one time, but because of pressures from the food industry the government backed down and allowed it. Presently, the germ and bran are generally used for animal feed. (1 guess they are more valuable than people are). Dr. Royal Lee, a pioneer in the nutritional field, once said, "The whiter the bread, the sooner you are dead."

In the processing of white flour the germ, bran, and 20- 30 known valuable nutrients are removed, and then "enriched" with 3;. 5 synthetic nutrients. These added synthetic nutrients have no benefit to human health, and actually render the bread worse than had it not been enriched at all. As well, store bought whole wheat bread is only marginally better than white bread.

Grinding your own wheat, resulting in a versatile flour , is quite simple, and well worth the effort in taste, quality, nutritional value, and cost-effectiveness. See us for information on grain mills and recipes for simple bread baking and healthy baked goods. (continued on page 3)

@Center For Natural Medicine, P.A.

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