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Don’t be fooled by “Fat Free” or any other attempt at a food label trying to look and sound healthy. Certain logos stamped across products can actually be purchased, whether true or not.  The cost of cheap and/or convenient food is your health.

Fat free products may not have “fat” in them, but quite often they still include sugar – sugar turns to fat in the blood, feeds infection, and parasites love it!

Getting more wrinkles than you would like? Many facial wrinkles can be avoided by eating real food, food providing optimal nutrition. If you are waking up to puffy eyes, face, hands, toes, or anything in between… over time wrinkles appear. One night of eating sweets can puff me up – what’s worse is when the puffiness subsides… wrinkles appear. This yo-yo of inflammation and deflation stretches our skin.

Sure there are other reasons for wrinkles (sun, drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc), but diet is huge. Losing weight does not have to be a mystery. Simply eat healthy most days of the week and hours of the day. What is eating healthy consist of? Mostly food without labels, local food, foods that are in season. Top that with ample amounts of water and “diet” can be a thing of the past. Water can be anywhere from drinking half your weight in ounces to drinking one ounce per pound of body weight.

Anybody can lose weight on fewer calories, why pay someone to tell you that?

Traditional Chinese Medicine views the desire for sugar, or the sweet flavor, as a craving for the mother (yin) energy, a craving that represents a need for comfort or security. Elson Haas, M.D., Author and Speaker on Nutrition and Detoxification

We crave what’s in our blood – get that clean and the cravings go away. Sugar is an inflammatory. Notice what happens when you eat a lot of sugary foods before bedtime… you wake up puffy. How many times can we allow our skin to stretch? This is a sure way to get wrinkles.  What’s happening on the outside is only a fraction of what’s happening on this inside.

There are healthier sugar alternatives such as xylitol, stevia, raw honey, maple syrup, raw agave nectar, molasses, and the newest one I read about it Lakanto… zero calorie, zero glycemic index, and zero additives, just to name a few. There is no one-size-fits-all sweetener and there will always be conflicting views. Use your best judgment and follow your gut. One thing most can agree on is to avoid white sugar… it is not as sweet as you think.