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1) What are Natural Foods? Organic food is cultivated and/or processed without the use of chemicals of any sort, including fertilizers, insecticides, artificial coloring or flavoring and additives. Organic refers to the food product as well as the farming and handling practices. Organic foods have a higher mineral and nutrition content.
The US Department of Agriculture has taken steps to develop a revised National Organic Standards proposal that would not allow irradiation, genetic engineering, and the use of sludge (biosolids) as a fertilizer, in organic production and processing.
2) Consider our water. Water is contaminated with chlorine and fluorine and other chemicals and organisms. Chlorine helps shut down your thyroid gland, which leads to all kinds of problems. It also "fries" protein sort of like an egg white when it is cooked. My husband had a well installed at our house for watering the garden and orchard; and we noticed that the plants started to flourish when they no longer received chlorinated city water. If that's true of plants, it's probably true of you too. So get a water filter for your shower, because you inhale more chlorine from a shower than you absorb from drinking water. Also get a water filter for your kitchen.
3) Oils are a necessary part of our diet. Most people think of eliminating oil in order to lose weight, but that can be a mistake. Your body needs oil but it needs to be the right kind of oil. When you go home, look at any food in your house that comes in a bag or bottle or can or box; read the label and look for the words "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated" oils. If a food contains those words in the label, you are better off throwing that food in the trash. Look for unrefined oils that have been mechanically pressed but have not been exposed to sunlight. Oil should be sold in cans or dark glass containers and kept in a cool place. The best oils to use are extra virgin olive oil, and a little cold-pressed non-genetically-engineered canola oil for cooking. Then use a little butter rather than margarine for toast etc. Avoid the synthetic fat olestra, which interferes with absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. (as well as causing anal leakage...). If you eat at restaurants a lot, find out what oil is used for the cooking -- e.g. french fries and other deep-fat fried foods are loaded with oils, but other foods can be loaded with bad oils as well.
4) Replace white flour and sugar with whole-wheat flour or millet flour or soy flour or buckwheat flour or quinoa flour for baking, and buy products containing these flours instead of "wheat flour". Read labels of all processed foods.
5) Eat a variety of foods. You can cut down on the amount of exposure to any given toxin by eating different foods. Eating the same diet day after day both increases your exposure to the particular toxins in that food, as well as increasing your chances of developing food allergy to that food. Eating a variety of foods also supplies a broader spectrum of nutrients.
6) Replace current favorite foods with healthier/more natural editions. Compare the foods, which you buy at Safeway or Lucky, with similar foods available at Whole Foods Market for example. You will find that the Whole Foods versions do not contain the chemicals or white flour or white sugar. Shopping at a store such as Whole Foods Market or Country Sun or Wild Oats Market, which screens for you the products sold in their stores, is a first step.
7) Prioritize which foods to buy organic. See Tables 1 and 2 of contaminated fruits and vegetables. If you need to economize, buy organic fruits and vegetables for the most- contaminated list.
8) Eliminate toxins from your body by eating organic fruits and vegetables and pure water, by exercise to sweat. Use a natural deodorant (containing tea tree oil or sage essential oils as active ingredients); do not use antiperspirants, which contain aluminum. Avoid taking drugs -- increases toxic load on immune system.
9) Use Celtic sea salt for a natural salt which also contains trace minerals. The table salt we use today is really pure sodium chloride, which has also been treated with aluminum to make it flow smoothly from the salt shaker. Pure sodium chloride is detrimental to the body (as is aluminum); whereas substituting Celtic Sea Salt, which is high in potassium and magnesium, accomplishes the maintenance of a naturally more physiological electrolyte balance in the body.