we have been consciously eating whole foods for quite some time now. whole foods? pretty easy. a few years back we added organic to our buzz word index. but, as you know, organic is all relative. it's all about packaging and sales and corporations and on and on. although i did just learn something further that i had not thought of before - did you know that food items can be marketed as organic and preservative free BUT corporations can fool the system by spraying the food containers with bug spray, formaldehyde, and preservatives? ew! i don't know why i never put two and two together on that because, duh, how else would the food last that long? moving on. so we had whole and organic under our belts fairly easily. when i got pregnant we made a huge stride to buy local and grass fed meat. that was a shock to the system because grass fed local/fresh meat is TO DIE FOR next to the crap they sell in stores. so yummy. it's shocking. and so muchy more filling. so now we have whole...organic...local...and grass fed meats under our belts.
are we perfect? no chance. do we strive to be better and better? you betcha! we do still eat in restaurants. we just try in our home to be more and more conscious around food.
so here comes the kicker = i am hoping after harvest season to start moving toward seasonal eating. that scares the living crap out of me. that is going to be SOOO HARD!
so why am i typing all of this out? big deal, i try to eat in every buzz word possible. but there is so much more. Harlow eats like a king. she has the most local, grass fed, sugar free, organic, hormone free, and whole foods that we can find. that kid seriously could not be more pure of a specimen. ha. but i will say, people often look at us funny when we ask that they not feed her xyz. people mostly don't understand why it matters to us and what the big deal about feeding her abc is. they also think we're dippy hippy idiots and that none of it matters. well...to us...it is a big deal. we want to give her every chance we can give her. and food is huge for us.
four weeks ago i started a cleanse to get my body off the toxins and sugar. it was supposed to be a two week cleanse. tomorrow makes four weeks for me and i have no desire to go off. like i said, i have been far from perfect and will continue to be far from perfect. but i have not felt this inspired by a "cause" since college. i am reading more and more about food and talking with more and more experts, interested folks, and livers of the life. it is WILD what we put in our bodies. WILD. a group of doctors recently did a study that proves all children born after 2011 will have diabetes at some point in their lives. 100%. you know why? you would think junk food is the cause. right? well, sure. but not just that - also because we eat all foods in all seasons. our bodies are not made for that. they can't handle those foods year round. diabetes started in the eldery and has worked it's way down. now babies get diabetes. now let's look at hormones in dairy products - little girls are getting their periods and growing breasts at EIGHT. why? because they're triple dosed with hormones in the milk/yogurt/ect they eat. hormones that are given to the mama cows so that they produce milk year round. wait, here is one more for you. oranges. healthy, right? sure. except that no bodies are made to have that much citric acid year round. and we force feed ourselves oranges and orange juice all year around because it's "healthy." consider this, nowhere in the world do oranges grow year round. so why do we eat them year round? over exposure of citric acid has woken up the herpes that all humans carry. herpes. which leads to the chicken pox and shingles. why are all babies being vaccinated for chicken pox right now? oh - because shingles has moved down to babies and kids because of over indulgence on CITRIC ACID. want to buy a Macintish apple in the summer? sure. why not, this is America, and apples are healthy. but the harvest season for apples is in the fall. so that means you're eating an apple from LAST YEAR'S harvest. it's just pumped so full of preservatives that it looks brand spanking new and ready for the eating. and it can read organic because the preservatives are in the packaging and not the apple. wtf.
okay. i am getting away from myself.
food. it's actually super important. and we give it too little thought. i am 20 days into my detox and cleanse and i feel fantastic. i pledge here in writing to keep getting better and better about whole...organic...local...grass fed...and SEASONAL eating. am i scared? sure. is it my newest passion? you betcha. i am obsessed. i want my baby to grow up with every chance i can give her. i want her to work the soil with her dirty little hands. i want her to understand the foods we mass produce and the poison that we eat every single day.
okay. need to cool off. if you see me, support me. this road is hard. and i am more than happy to talk with anyone more about it. in fact, i just learned that one of my favorite friends has followed the Paleo way of eating for over a year now and i am so excited to learn more!
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