A Perfect Day

Breakfast

5 oz Garden of Life Perfect Food mixed in distilled water
16 oz fresh Carrot/Beet/Cucumber juice
9 oz distilled water

10am Snack

handful of raw almonds
handful of organic raisins
18 oz Smart Water

Lunch

Green salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Boracho Beans
Gluten Free tortilla chips
all veggie hot sauce
peach mango iced tea with limes (no sugar/additives)

3pm Snack

9 oz Smart Water

Dinner

Raw vegetable salad: every organic vegetable, apple cider vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, fresh dill, 1 tsp Dijon mustard
Steamed Long Grain Brown Rice with Bragg's Liquid Aminos
Sauteed vegetables and tofu: onions, green peppers, carrots, tofu, balsamic vinegar and garlic

9pm Dessert

8 oz distilled water

The New American Sport of Gluttony

I think we are being lazy in our food choices. We are going with the norm. Rethink your food. Here are 4 foods that people consider to be healthy but are, in actuality, junk food. These are foods touted by traditional medical doctors as healthy or "just fine" that result in harm to your immune system. I think we eat them in mass amounts because we are too lazy to find a healthier alternative. Check out the list below. I'll give you the break down, the bad news and the truly healthy alternative.

Chicken - We love to pat ourselves on the back for eschewing red meat only to down gobs of fake animal fat. Watch the movie Food Inc. Read the book The Omnivore's Dilemna. Chicken sold by your local grocer is just a hormone laden, genetically modified hunk of fat and salt. Even if you buy free-range, organic chicken, you need to be very careful. The human body only responds to a limited amount of chicken protein during your lifetime. By the time our kids reach 21 they will have eaten 400 chickens in the form of chicken fingers, honey seared chicken, chicken fajitas, Chic-Fil-A, BBQ chicken pizza etc. Do you have the blood type to properly break down the chicken with your own enzymes? Are you adding protein to your blood or are you adding trash to your colon?
Alternatives: beans, nuts, organic eggs. If you must eat chicken, prepare it yourself: you will eat organic, eat less, and dress it in fewer carcinogenic preservatives.

Pasta - My oh my! Please understand that you are eating a gob of paste. There is nothing "whole wheat" about pasta unless you buy a stalk of wheat and grind it yourself. Our American packaging laws allow us to call anything "whole wheat".
Alternatives: try rice spaghetti, quinoa pasta, spelt lasagna or just plain rice, quinoa and spelt in their whole grain forms.

Yogurt - Probably the most highly touted diet food that has been horribly tainted by the manufacturers. Once again, if you take cows milk and age it with enzymes and then eat the resulting tangy and tart result, then OK. But buying Stoneyfield farms banana coconut organic yogurt is just buying another sugary cow's milk product. The amount of animal flesh that Americans consume is frightening. Ask yourself, how many cows and chickens did God allot each man for nourishment? Are you sure your body operates at optimal energy on cow for breakfast (cereal, sausage, yogurt), chicken for lunch (Chi-Fil-A, chicken Caesar salad) and cow and chicken for dinner (grilled chicken, fettucine alfredo, ice cream for dessert)?
Alternative: the healthy part of yogurt is lactobaccillus acidopholous. Buy it as a vitamin for healthy intestinal flora.

Iced Tea - I love iced tea. But let's make sure you understand what iced tea is not:; water. That's right. People tell me all the time that they get plenty of water during the day because they drink tea: tea is dehydrating, water is hydrating. Tea and water are polar opposites. tea that contains Sweet-n-Low, Equal or Spenda is acidic to your body and blocks the adrenal glands. Tea that is pre-mixed in a bottle such as Snapple, NesTea, VitaminWater and Arnold Palmer is just flat out junk food
Alternative: water!

"When my early musical heroes offered me drugs and
alcohol when I was a teenage musician, the discipline and guidance of my loving
mom and dad fortified me to make the right choices, and I remained clean and
sober through it all. No drugs, no alcohol, no tobacco, healthy food,
mostly wild game in responsible quantities, and a thoughtful regimen of care for
my sacred temple, mind, body, spirit and soul.
I can still dance and whoop it up better than anybody,
jam on my guitars like an animal possessed and am more energized than ever
before. It appears to be unnatural, but in fact, it is perfectly natural,
considering the intelligent choices I have always made.
I could be hobbled and goofy from substance abuse, but
I am not. I could be fat, soft and slow thanks to the new American sport
of gluttony, but I am not. I rock off royally at this age because I chose
to take care of myself and laugh in the face of the sheep who so foolishly
bought into the lie of peer pressure.
My name is Ted Nugent, and I have no peers, thank
you."
Playing With Fire in a Packed Theater
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