rebuilding your temple: week four

i can't get enough of whole living. i made this salad yesterday and it was so great. i cooked the vegetables in coconut oil and replaced the romano with ubriaco del piave and left out the olives. this list of the "dirty dozen" are 12 fruits and vegetables that you should be buying organic. the thin skins allow the pesticides to sink far in to the fruit, thus making their way in to your body.

this week at my class we had a guest speaker: mrs. kimberly roberto from west cobb chiropractic. she is co-author of the maximized living nutrition plan book. she came armed with a shopping list and tons of information on living a "maximized" life. some of the information i was familiar with: cook with coconut oil, avoid trans fats, eat grass fed beef ect., but i learned so much more! i'm going to try to break it down for you in bite-sized chunks. as always feel free to ask questions in the comment section and i'll try to answer them the best i can. i also wanted to share with you all how my happiness has increased 10 fold making these changes in my own life. i also wanted to tell you that i'm seeing BIG changes in my body. potential TMI: i have always had irregular cycles, over the past several months they have become regular. i get chills thinking about my body performing how it should be.

something that dr. roberto said that really stuck out was, if you are going to make one change, change the meat you eat. if you are going to eat meat, make sure it is grass fed beef or free range organic chicken.

we also talked about cholesterol and how it is actually plays a very important role in our diet.

• helps balance hormones
• creates bile acids to digest fats
• repairs and protects cells
• creates proper neurological functions
• promotes healing

the oxidation of cholesterol is what causes problems.

good fat vs. bad fat:

• avoid all transfats
• stay away from canola oil, vegetable oil, margarine, soybean oil, hydrogenated oils
• use coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, raw butter

good fat-

• builds cell membranes
• absorbs vitamins
• cushions vital organs
• makes 70% of brain tissue

LOW FAT diets do NOT work. americans are the leaders in "low fat" dieting and we are also the most obese. what does this tell you?

type 2 diabetes can be reversed by cutting out grains and sugars. reversed!

something that really struck a cord with me was the overwhelming evidence that cancer feeds on sugar. i'm not going to sugar-coat (<---- see what i did there) that. it is so important to strip our diets of sugar and refined and processed grains. it makes me so sad that people are basically killing themselves with their diets. why aren't we taught this? why aren't doctors teaching their patients how to heal themselves with proper nutrition? tears are welling up in my eyes just typing this because i feel like we're being drugged to our death. our bodies are amazing machines that are capable of healing themselves.

in 1931 dr. otto h. warburg was given the nobel prize for finding the connection between sugar and cancer. 1931!

"Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar." -- Dr. Otto H. Warburg in Lecture

scripture: romans 12:1

homework:

drink more water!

exercise at least 3 days a week.

make changes in your diet, i challenge you to cut out sugar for one week...

edit your media intake. ask yourself if what you're reading is helping you to make healthy/happy choices.

tell me any/all changes that you're making or want to make. let's encourage each other!

week one

week two

week three