Decrease Global Warming and Reduce Destruction of Native Forests by Food Choices.

Imagine if the food choices you made affected global warming.  Would you change what you eat?   We’ll I’m here to let you know that what you eat not only affects global warming, but economic policy, immigration corruption, animal cruelty, individual and overall world health and drug abuse to name just a few.  And you thought eating was merely about filling your belly.

My name is Cyndi O’Meara, I’ll be writing a column and introducing you to things about the food industry that will hopefully create change in what you eat.  You see I have an altruistic goal, to stop food companies making food that not only affects global warming but are down right dangerous for you.  Much of the food in the supermarket maybe edible but not necessarily good for you or the planet.

I consider myself fortunate in that I was bought up in a family that were way ahead of their time.  My grandfather was an organic corn farmer who refused to use chemicals in the late 1940’s, he remained an organic farmer right up to his death in 1995.  My Grandmother would pick all the produce from my Grandfathers 2 acre house garden to feed her hungry crew of 13, and any excess was preserved and used during the winter months.

My Father was a pharmacist in the 1950‘s and my Mother a nurse, they refused to give any of their children any form of medication.  I’m 48 and have never taken any prescribed or over the counter drugs, including antibiotics.  This philosophy that my parents and grandparents taught me I’ve carried on with my children and they are 20, 18 and 15 and they too have had no need for medications.  When you consider that the average westerner will consume 40,000 prescribed and over the counter drugs in their life time I believe that what I know may have some significance in helping people to understand the road to health.

It’s no secret how to achieve wonderful health, it’s actually just common sense, but we’ve lost our way and have been confounded by medical research, scientific discovery and bamboozled with jargon.  This has lead to a community that no longer trusts the food from the Garden of Eden but rather the food from a chemical, industrial kitchen/laboratory with food labels that provide numbers and behind the numbers are a concoction of chemicals that cause, cancer, obesity, neurological damage, hyperactivity, depression to name but a few.

It is no coincidence that since we have stopped eating from from the Garden of Eden and started to eat margarine, flavours, artificial sweeteners, refined cereals, modified dairy and other man made and manipulated foods, that obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, allergies, autism and mental disorders has exponentially exploded in the population.

I have never been about deprivation, I believe that meat pies, hot chips, chocolate cake, coffee and alcohol are foods to savour and not avoid.  But the meat pie must be made with ethical meat and real gravy, the pastry should only include the real ingredients of flour, butter, raw milk and sea salt rather then, bleached flour, hydrogenated vegetable oil, flavour, colour, refined salt and many other ingredients to create a food that never goes off.  Once upon a time foods were made with a few ingredients these days some simple foods can contain 90 or so ingredients unfit for human health that have been produced unethically, using illegal immigrants, paid appalling wages and treated like animals.  Some foods contain the by products of coal production, others contain the backfired result of drug discoveries.  You will be amazed as to the underlying corruption that now stocks our supermarket shelves.  My hope is to not scare but to educate in order to empower you to make food choices that will not only change your health and energy but perhaps save the population and the planet from self destruction.

Each month I will explore one food, I’ll give you the history of that food, what the food industry has done to it, its ethical standing and what food is best to consume for health.  The good part about this is that it is not about eating lentils and bean sprouts but enjoying the taste of real food again.

If you want to know this information now then please go to my website www.changinghabits.com.au and purchase the book Changing Habits Changing Lives, it is an education about food and it will open your mind.  The book asks you to read one chapter at a time.  Each chapter is an education about one food and at the end of each chapter are action steps, do the action steps and once you have incorporated that habit into your life then move onto the next habit change/chapter. 

But more often then not people tell me that they can’t put the book down that the information is so enlightening and riveting that they want to know it all.  Experience tells me that if you read the book in one sitting then you will only retain about 7% of the information.  I believe the book should be tackled one chapter a week.  In order to make like long changes in your eating habits, you should read the chapter every day for the week, listen to the audio recording of the chapter daily (which is also available on my website), put the screen saver on your computer to prompt you to make the changes in order for you to fully understand the ramifications of what the food industry has done to food and to the population at large.  For the past 20 years or so there has been a subtle brain washing through media, marketing and advertising, and it takes some time to awaken you back to the truth.

The information I will be giving you and in the book Changing Habits Changing Lives is like taking the red pill in the movie The Matrix.  The red pill awakens you to the truth, if you don’t read it then it is like taking the blue pill, where you continue to live in ignorance and the consequences of this choice can be devastating.

Happy Changing Habits

Cyndi O’Meara
Nutritionist, Author and Speaker
www.changinghabits.com.au

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