One of the many rites of passage into adulthood is learning what to feed your body to secure a long, healthy life for yourself. I have found this is just as much about what not to eat as it is what you should be eating. For example as tasty as ramen noodles are at 3am…the massive sodium attack that ensues is not the healthiest way to spend your evening. Likewise certain things that we have always been told are good for us may actually be on the naughty list like…juice. Remember when we were kids and we were always told to drink juice? Well it turns out that almost all juice is just pure sugar and that does our aging insides nothing but harm. Also filling up the naughty list seems to be wonderful things like red meat, fried foods, fast foods, gluten and/or carbohydrates and…gasp…dairy.
Needless to say it becomes more and more difficult to eat “healthy” as it becomes more and more difficult to know what healthy even means anymore. It was recently let out that those yummy little bags of baby carrots are in fact filled with chlorine…a detail that should bother most people consider we don’t naturally eat the chemicals we clean our pools with. Tidbits like this keep me up at night wondering what else I haven’t been told about the foods I put in my body. Broccoli soaked in motor oil perhaps? Or a nice salad with WD-40 dressing for an appetizer? Yum.
So what is the solution? As a grown up you learn to take things into your own hands; you are the master of your own destiny. So I have switched my diet to as local, as natural and as organic as I can get it, with hopes this will lessen the amount of toxins I imbibe on a daily basis. One of the perks of living here in the lovely Pacific Northwest is our dedication to natural, organic farming. We have tons and tons of local farms that not only grow this beautiful food for us, but some of them will even deliver it right to your door! The wonderful people at Good Food Easy and Sweetwater Farm’s offer this service and I have been using it for some time now with complete satisfaction. Every week I get a bag of fruits, veggies and eggs, all locally grown, all organic and all delicious. It is affordable, convenient and completely void of any surprise chemicals. Maybe not as simple as a packet of ramen, but my now thirty year old body thanks me for this sacrifice every day.
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