Healthy Living Means Eating Natural Foods & Taking Supplements

What exactly is the right way to healthy eating? We hear about a new approach every week and it’s so confusing. Is juicing the answer? What about all the supplements available? What’s the difference between greens and barley? Why would I need these things? And colon cleansing is something that I don’t understand at all. We know we want to feel better and eat better, but where do we begin? Maybe the first question we should answer is why.

Why do Americans work so hard at eating well while our health just seems to get worse? How did our parents and grandparents get along without taking so much as a vitamin pill. How do we know whether probiotics, digestive tea, or “superfoods” will help. Why isn’t eating food enough? The simple answer is most of what we eat isn’t food anymore. Most of the food we eat comes from the grocery store packaged in a bag or a box. This means that most of the nutritional value has been processed out of it. What’s worse, harmful substances may have been added in. Our eyes may tell us it looks like food, but our digestive systems are struggling to process chemicals they were never meant to handle.

Be aware of most of the nutritional information we get comes from manufacturers, growers and distributors of our mass produced, processed food. Claims like “healthy”, ”lite” and “natural” have more to do with marketing than with truth or health. We can’t stop eating, and our lives are too busy to analyze the source of everything we digest. That’s where a few simple tools can help. Here’s the top three.

1.Colon cleansing If we must eat non-nutritional food (and it seems we must) then we can help our body get rid of the harmful stuff it didn’t know what to do with. You can use a product to fast and do a major colon cleanse once or twice a year. Or you can add a daily gentle tea or supplement that will gently help your colon process what it doesn’t need faster. High fiber foods and fiber supplements also speed things along

2.Probiotics Antibiotics kill bacteria that makes us sick, but they also kill the bacteria, especially in the colon, that maintains a functioning and healthy digestive system. We ingest increasing quantities of antibiotics from our meat and dairy products these days because farm animals are constantly receiving them. Our bodies need probiotics to balance to harmful effect.

3.Dietary supplements If we were able to eat only healthy foods three times a day, we wouldn’t need to supplement our nutrition. Since that’s not possible, Greens and Barley grass help make up for the vegetables we don’t eat. Flax and fish oils supplement the good-for-us oils we don’t use. And natural supplements fill in the gaps when our daily food choices fail us.

Explore these three steps as a quick start to your healthier lifestyle.

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