CHOICE to CHOOSE

Life is really simple, make choices YOU can live with. Don't make choices because of peer pressure or because your dad said so. If you want the freedom to be happy then make a choice that YOU can live with. Ultimately it is between you and whom ever your pray to and no one else. If your making a choice for your family, one that affects others. Then think of them in the process of making the choice you can live with for the rest of your life.
Think about who you are on a soul level, choose your standards and then speak your truth you can live with.
Seek your Bliss (joesph campbell)

Happiness

Happiness is important in life. It is important to seek the things that bring us happiness in the healthiest of ways of course. Start today, make some time to seek a hobby, interest or go back to school to pursue a dream. What is it that you seek in your heart? In your soul?

Be your own chef

It's as simple as purchasing a cook book. My favorite "Better Homes New Cook Book" it offers much more than recipes. It walks you through things like slicing techniques, different types of rice and much more. You can also learn lots from the food network as well.
The more you learn around your kitchen the more control you have over your food source. Yes even I still enjoy an evening out to dinner just as much as I enjoy preparing a fresh and healthy family meal to relax and enjoy at home.
Google a recipe like a child hood favorite, recreate the recipe and use AGAVE NECTAR instead of Sugar or Corn Syrup. Organic heavy cream can thicken most any recipe and add to its flavor as well. Don't be afraid to experiment a time or two until perfecting for your own customized version of any recipe out there.
I have not found 1 recipe I can't convert over to health and great taste :)
Even when you do choose to dine out, choose healthier options like soup and salad bar, grilled or baked over fried.

helpful websites to visit

www.everydaychoices.org
www.nutitiondate.com/
www.mypyramid.gov
www.celiac.org
www.nutrition.gov

Find the FACTS you need today

How to find your food source?

It could have a different meaning to all. To me it is heating foods that are 100% local, natural and organic. No I don't always choose organic, sometimes I choose local and natural as well. However, you must be cautious with the word natural because our FDA has no standard for natural you must read the label ingredient and figure this one out for yourself. I choose a natural product when I can read the ingredient label and lets say I'm buying bread. If the ingredient has more than unbleached-unbrominated flour, sea salt, water, aluminum free baking powder, unbleached sugar then I refuse to support the company and will buy another brand choice that is all natural or local or organic.
Again I urge you to create your own standard and keep your food journal going and now add to it how you felt after you ate the food of your choice.
Best of luck to being healthy in 2010!

Be alarmed

I can not express enough how important it is that you begin to read and understand what you are eating and feeding to others (like your children). Many of these legal FDA approved additives and fillers have in fact been proven to cause cancer, aggression and many other serious side effects.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR EATING?
Begin by doing your own research. Simply start reading the ingredient labels on the "food" you bring into your home. Google all the words that you don't know what it is. Don't assume you know, if your unsure look it up anyway. You may only be saving a life.

EAT WELL - FEEL WELL - BE WELL!

After reviewing my food journal, I confirmed I was eating salads, fish, vegetables and fruit. Many of them were fried (all kinds of oils)high in trans fats and saturated fats. I felt that at the time I was making the healthiest choices available to me. No one ever said to me that the foods I was purchasing and eating had dangerous fats, synthetic additives or ingredients. I assumed it was real food that I was eating. I assumed every food was 100% all natural. WHAT? The FDA has NO standard in our public food system for NATURAL? This is scary!
As I continued to research why and what were at the roots of my recent illness. Was it linked to my childhood sicknesses? I was hospitalized over 11 times from the age of 10 years old and now as a young adult I was back but this time it was worse than ever before. I had never almost died or had an out of body experience.
My research of real food vs. commercialized foods has been my passion every since.
Think about this, how does this make you feel?