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No amount of exercise will correct what damaging foods you put in your body. Remember, you can’t out run your fork. What you put at the end of your fork is critical.

Avoid processed foods, cook from scratch so you know what goes into you meals.

Eat foods from your garden as nature intended, closest to its natural state as possible. Food processed in a lab does not foster health, only a longer shelf life.

If it has a label, try to keep the ingredients under 5 items.

If it has a long shelf life, it’s likely not good for you.

Eat locally produced food, it has the energy and nutrients you need for your area you live in.

Don’t compromise convenience for nutrition, you will pay the price later. The effort you put into buying and preparing whole healthy foods now, will guarantee a pay off in healthy ways and longevity down the road. Concentrate on eating food that provides wellness and vitality and avoiding food that drain your health and robs you of vitality.

Think of food as fuel for your body, not just a filler, you put the wrong fuel in your body, the engine eventually breaks.

Put the rainbow of colours on your plate, avoid beige and white foods unless that is their natural state.

Aim for making vegetables the centre star on your plate, all different kinds at each meal. Yes veggies at breakfast is a strategy needed to get your full requirements in daily. Think of sauté veggies beside your eggs or protein, or a smoothie or juice loaded with veggie goodness.

Eat organic or wild foods as much as possible. Pesticides, fungicides, waxes, radiation, dyes, chemicals, preservatives all have their negative effects on the body full stop. I know you’re thinking, “why is healthy food so expensive?” You should be asking “why is unhealthy food so cheap?”. There is a hidden cost to those cheap foods – the cost is your

health! You can either pay up front at the grocery store, or pay later for health care supplies and office visits. Medical bills cost much more than broccoli!

After 30 years of doing food allergy/sensitivity testing, I can share that the average person should avoid dairy products, wheat, and eggs. I strongly suggest you get your personalized food allergy panel done and find out which foods in particular are immune reactive for you leading to chronic inflammation and degenerative disease.

Start juicing fresh veggies daily or make a smoothie loaded with veggies and fruit, healthy fats, protein powder, collagen etc… Check out the internet for inspiration; let your imagination go wild. This basic habit will top you up with the needed micronutrients, antioxidants and phytonutrients needed for health. This is my favourite nutritional boost tip!

Don’t consume pure or cocktail fruit juices. They contain all the sugar of fruit without the fibre that slows the absorption of the sugar; stick to water and eat whole fruit.

If you must drink coffee, keep it fair trade organic and only one cup a day with food and consume before noon. It has been shown lately to have some health benefits but only if it’s real coffee, not a “moca choco latte” filled with sugar and hydrogenated fats. Best consumed black if you can, or a bullet coffee (coffee, organic healthy fat, butter, coconut oil whipped up).

Eat healthy fats. Contrary to belief, healthy fats don’t make you fat, they in fact can help keep you thin.

Healthy fats are: coconut oil, good quality olive oil, tea oil, macadamia oil, avocado oil, butter from grass-fed cows or goat, grass-fed ghee, organic raised tallow, lard, duck fat or chicken fat, walnut oil, almond oil, sesame oil, flax oil, hemp oil.

Avoid these fats: margarine, any hydrogenated oil, palm, peanut, vegetable, corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean, canola, corn oils, and vegetable shortening.

Minimize grains (pasta, cereal, crackers, muffins, cookies, bread products etc.). If you eat grains, keep to non-wheat options and keep them in their whole natural state. Opt for quinoa, teff, wild rice, brown & red rice, Faro, buckwheat, rye kernels, organic cornmeal, millet, and oats.

Always opt for pasture-raised, grass-fed, antibiotic free meat choices. Find a local trustworthy source for your meat. Eating the meat on supermarket shelves that come from industrial farms are poor quality choices raised under very unhealthy conditions. This meat, how it was raised and what the animal ate translate into your health.

Raw organic nuts and seeds on the whole are power packed with healthy fats, protein, minerals, antioxidants and healthy carbohydrates. The healthiest nuts to eat are almonds, walnuts, pecans, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, and macadamia. The healthiest seeds are chia, flax, hemp, sunflower, and sesame.

Add naturally fermented foods to your diet, kimchi, sauerkraut, miso, temphe, kombucha tea.

Stop eating cereal for breakfast, the effect on your body is a hunger-induced sugar spike, insulin spike, metabolic train wreck within hours. Most boxed cereals are too refined and full of sugar and unhealthy fats. Eat only organic musli or granola, with less than 6 grams sugar per serving or cook whole grains on the stove top and add nuts, seeds, and fruit on top.