- Eating an average of 1-3 Organic Apples per day is one of the best things you can do for your body. Since doing this in 2008 I have not had a flu or a sore throat. Before that time I had experienced sore throats and flu like symptoms that lasted for apx. a week almost quarterly during my youth and early twenties. The health benefits of organic apples is nearly limitless in it's research. I also feel that it has benefited me in regards to my skin among many other things. Initially I did not enjoy eating apples but within weeks I began to feel an improvement in my well being and stamina. The majority of the nutrients are in the peel so you gotta learn to like that too. There are of course many other fruits and vegetables but I personally feel that the organic apple is the most viable solution due to its reasonable price, storage life and accessibility. My preference is for the Organic Gala Apple which is usually found for $4 for a 3lb bag. If you buy them in bulk with those annoying stickers you're likely getting ripped off quite a bit.
- Using Olive Oil instead of butter or margarine for pan cooking is a much healthier alternative. I wish I had been aware of the fact many years ago. Obviously butter and margarine are not known for their health properties.
- Speaking of Margarine, sure you can save a few bucks and it spreads out nicely but what it contains has always seemed to be somewhat of a mystery I want no part of. Try a nice whipped butter or take out a smaller slab of butter at a time from the freezer to leave out and store in the fridge.
- Don't buy or ingest anything stored in plastic which has potentially been stored in the sun or will be in the sun while you are ingesting it. Do you need to wait for some research company to advise the news media to tell you on a slow news day that research has found another one of the hundred plus types of plastic to be harmful? A main culprit of this would be bottled water. I would suggest avoiding bottled water completely. There are times where bottled water is stored outside on palettes outside for days maybe weeks before it is sold. The safety of current plastics is questionable though assured by experts of the same education level who for decades never had a problem with Type 7 recyclable plastic. That particular form of plastic was suddenly deemed unsafe because of “BPA” levels which is likely one of the hundreds of acronyms nobody understands used in the production of plastics.
- Hey Smokers we all know you're more awesome but can you keep that poison out of my face. If you are smoking within the vicinity of a child I feel it's extremely selfish to not have the courtesy to enjoyably reduce your lifespan somewhere else. As time has progressed I believe that cigarettes have been "medically formulated" for addiction since just being plain tobacco. From the many stories I've heard the ONLY successful way to quit is “cold turkey” and maintaining a no tobacco lifestyle for a minimum of 4 weeks to break the psychological habits of the human brain. Also just because you smoke doesn't mean that the earth is your garbage can.
- The multi-generational era of giving candy to children for every small event and holiday questionably created through marketing needs to be re-evaluated. What psychological effects does that have on a human's diet later in life?
- Warming up anything using any form of plastic in the microwave is dangerous in my opinion. Microwaves apparently should also be avoided but personally I can't find the time or technique for that yet. Warming up a baby's plastic bottle is quite unhealthy according to my speculation.
- If your beer is warm, you don't have beer. Though warm beer is not medically proven to be less healthy than cold beer it tastes like shit and I have to look like the idiot when I can't stand drinking it.
- Redbull is not your friend, eat an apple or manage your time more responsibly. I can't prove it but that stuff has got to rip the hell out of a person's stomach lining and everything else it touches. While speaking on carbonated beverages I feel it is sad to think of how much carbonated sugar water people ingest on a daily basis. Don't even get me started on aspartame and the thought that people are doing themselves good by drinking a “diet' drink. I am so disgusted by the thought of how much cola I drank in my youth. It's rots the shit out of your teeth, and how it ever became an acceptable form of beverage in society has to have something to do with World War II. Just do what you can to drink water.
- The Sun is extremely good for you in moderation, burning is not. I have to question whether or not using suntan lotion so you are physically capable of spending more time in high UV rays while chemically coated is better for you than getting out of the sunlight on natural instincts.
- Kids should get sick and roll around in the mud to build their immunity. There just having fun being little people. They've got the rest of their lives to be sanitized whiny adults who never feel appreciated.
- Whatever happened to the swine flu after Glaxo Kline Smith sold all their shots? It's only my opinion but that whole thing was as such: take an existing type of flu, give it a name and let the news market it on fear. Since that time who has gotten the swine flu out of the billions of people who didn't get the shot? I felt it was more dangerous to get a immunization shot for a sickness that seemed less believable than a rabbit that gives out chocolate eggs during a Christian Holiday.
- Diagnosing an infant with Asthma is in my opinion often unnecessary and could lead to them relying on a steroid form medication for the rest of their life. Factors such as diet, digestion, mold and air quality should be looked at first before sticking one of those enormous tubes on a baby's face and forcing that crap down their lungs.
- Corn Syrup should be avoided as it is known to not digest properly and is an ingredient in nearly everything. I don't really know what I'm talking about on this one but I try to avoid it after hearing a smart rich dude in Surrey, BC talk about it extensively.
- Use creamed honey in your coffee instead of sugar. It tastes amazing and completely eliminated my need to use high trans-fat, high in preservatives (though delicious) flavoured creamers with my coffee. Creamed honey has been speculated to be insanely healthy for you. No longer having access to a farmer selling buckets of it I have found the most economical place to get it is at the Superstore with a price of $18 for 3Kg. Organic Honey is ridiculously expensive and not likely that necessary when you think about the process.
- Don't use salt... What are you doing? It's loaded into everything you eat already. If your food needs salt maybe you need new food. Salt is often used as a preservative and is packed into every food that it can be sneaked into.
- Don't eat microwaved popcorn. It's disgusting once you look at the ingredients and nutritional facts. It's like investing in an earlier death. Put that in the same category as nearly everything in the freezer aisle.
- I don't like eating vegetables on their own at all. What I do is take all that healthy stuff I should be eating, grind it up in a blender and mask the awfulness with some fruits. Taking a bundle of spinach and mixing in a couple of bananas is surprisingly delicious and tastes amazing on a hot day. That could be “marketed” to kids as monster juice or something along those lines. Other variations make an excellent popsicle if you have the right container.
In all honesty nothing I've typed here should be taken as any form of true knowledge. Do your own research and use your own common sense to think for yourself. Generally we know when we're not being healthy without being told so. Most people have no problem with chemical ingestion and to have concern about things with no immediate threat can be seen as weird or just blithering heresy.
At 14 when my family had moved from town to a grain farm in front of a canola field heavily involved with the use of chemicals I had a drastic and immediate decline in my health in regards to my breathing. Since that time and more so in my late twenties I have done what I can to understand and learn about potential health risks in our environment.
Being healthy in today's chemically profitable world is nearly impossible. Generally I do what I can within my financial means to avoid the ingestion of chemicals. All I want is for you to possibly question potential health risks to improve your own life. The human body is amazing in it's durability but with drastic increases in life threatening illnesses occurring at younger ages people should have a plan of prevention in place, especially for children. We should be doing what we can to stop financially supporting the increase of chemical use in our food products.
