“Kids Always Take The Chocolate or Cheese Coated Option. Do You?”
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Note Taking Nerd 2 back once again.
I’ve got a question for you.
Did you eat an entirely different diet than your parents did growing up?
I didn’t.
I ate and drank exactly what they did. Hamburger Helper, Cheetos, Tamales, Frozen Food dinners, Red Vines, Microwaved Popcorn, Fish Sticks, Ice Cream, Fried Tortillas, French Fries, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza, 32 oz Cokes bigger than my head etc, etc.
My mom died not ever diverting from a steady diet of garbage like this. My dad still indulges but as his body is starting to give him problems he’s opened up his awareness to the importance of eating healthy and exercising.
I’ve taken a different path.
I’m the only person in my entire family to have ever stopped eating meat and sugar for years at a time. The only person who has done a colon cleanse, a heavy metal cleanse, a liver cleanse, a parasite cleanse, a yeast and candida cleanse and a whole body cleanse.
They poked fun at me when I’d be eating salad on Thanksgiving instead of plowing my face full of turkey, stuffing and pie.
I didn’t give a shit.
The reason I didn’t was because I knew better. I studied health and shook myself out of the instant gratification hypnotic trance most of society ignorantly wallows in.
As of now, I’m eating junk every once in while, say 25% of the time, while focusing on getting solid nutrition in my body the rest.
And after reading the article below at good ole’ Dr. Mercola’s site today, I know it’s time for another cleanse…
Are Parents Killing Their Kids With Kindness?
Britain is attempting to tackle its growing childhood obesity problem. Recently, British officials started a new campaign to warn parents that they may be “killing their children with kindness.”
Parents who indulge too many of their children’s desires, says the campaign, may be unwittingly setting them up for problems with heart disease, diabetes or cancer.
This is not the first time Britain has tried to curb childhood obesity. Critics say the British government’s past initiatives to fight the problem have failed. A quarter of all four- and five-year-olds are currently overweight in England, and about one-third of children age 10 or 11 are also obese.
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You may or may not agree with me on this but I’m gonna say it anyway.
If kids get fat it’s all the parents fault.
"My niece Kloe not getting what she wants at the grocery store."
I have a 2 1/2 year old niece. Her name is Kloe. When it comes time to eat lunch if I give her the option between eating a salad or an ice cream cone, guess which one’s getting chose every single time.
The other day we were at the grocery store and I made the mistake of not strapping her into a cart. While cruising around on foot she was grabbing everything within eye sight.
We cut through the chips/crackers section to get to the soymilk and I cringed at what happened next.
She was lagging behind and I look back and she had a lard ass family size bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos in her hand. She looked at me and her little baby voice said “I like these.”
Egh.
This is sooo telling into what she see’s consistently at home.
And guess what? I had her put em back and later guess what hit her at eye level “surprise, surprise” those Pepperidge Farm cheese flavored goldfish. I bought them.
She probably ate only around 20, maybe 30 of those teeny crackers because I jumped on the grenade.
I ate the rest of them. I understand this little girl depends on me to protect her. And monitoring what she eats is one of the easiest ways to prevent her from a painful disease ridden existence or worse… death.
Junk food is a patient killer. It’s in no hurry. It’s got nothing but time.
Some people might tell you stressing out on what you eat is dangerous and this is what leads to failing health and diet abandonment. “It’s all in your head.” is what they say. If you make a big deal of eating some junk it will hurt you. If you don’t you’ll be ok.
Then they throw out the cigar smokin’, booze swillin’, meat eatin’ George Burns living til’ a hundred and whatever example.
I don’t argue. It’s not worth my breath. You know why? Because I agree with this on some level.
Stress kills. Probably faster than diet alone.
If you don’t manage your emotions you can have the healthiest diet on earth and still bore a hole into your colon with cancerous thoughts and beliefs and values.
But most small children don’t have stress and cancerous thoughts and they’re still getting fat. Fat kills too. Might have something to do with what they’re eating.
I’m not perfect. I actually liked chowing down on those crackers I bought for my niece. And I know being super anal about every single thing I eat may lead to stress.
But if I swing in the total opposite direction and just barrage my body full time with worthless food, I’ll pay for it and my family will too.
Food has the power to drastically affect how we feel in every moment of our lives through the lifting or crashing our blood sugar. Most people don’t have the discipline to say yes to food that gives them energy rather than fatigue (broccoli vs. Twinkies).
Children don’t have any other choice but to follow our example. Why would we sentence them to life of pain because we can’t control our own eating habits?
Are we following the same dysfunctional programming passed on to us by our parents?
If so we are lucky because we have the power of choice. We don’t have to follow the crowd. We don’t have to follow our parents. We can lead our children to health and vitality by making better eating decisions.
Isn’t that cool?
Start looking into healthier diet alternatives as soon as you’re ready to. Some of my favorite authors on the subject are…
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs
Andrew Weil
And Dr. Robert Young
http://www.phmiracleliving.com
Check these guys out. They’ve changed my life. Maybe they will yours too.
Wishing you speedy and spectacular success,
Note Taking Nerd #2
P.S. Please let us know of any authors or programs that have transformed you into a lean mean healthy machine that everyone here should know about.
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January 12, 2009 at 9:42 am
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January 12, 2009 at 10:39 am
the Weston A Price Foundation changed my life. I am leaner, I have stable energy throughout the day, and I no longer have “brain fog.” When I started cooking with an ingredient which most people would call unhealthful, the warts on my feet (and one on my finger) disappeared within a matter of weeks (note that I had them for years since I used communal showers at college).
right now I am discovering Vitamin D which is pretty powerful sh**… My GF and I both got sick at the same time. I took 20,000IU of D and it cleared up in a day, but she was sick for a whole week. It also clears up the eczema that I get in the winter. The Vitamin D Council is the most cutting-edge source for Vit-D info that I know. They publish Vitamin D news months or years ahead of the newspapers.
of course Mercola has good stuff too. (if you have not watched his one-hour Vitamin D lecture you should!)
if you have kids check out the cookbook Nourishing Traditions. It has a lot of recipes that let you sneak healthy food to your children without them knowing.
January 12, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Dr. Kamnitzer,
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Zach,
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I look forward to talking to both of you Dr. Kamnitzer again in the future…
January 14, 2009 at 1:08 pm
#2 you gave a lot of Shit! Cleanses are not much fun. the energy boost after is worth the camping in the can. I am recovering in the food department. 70 pounds to drop. Exercise then diet/life style change. Habits make or break a system. Diets fail because they end. Life Style, daily Slight Edge stuff. Wished I had believed Jim Rohn back in 1991! Tony took me too far too fast and I crashed and burned. Important part is I am still digging out of the hole I created.
Tim
January 14, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Hope is a good thing Tim.
Your language patterns, directing your focus by letting the wisdom of gentleman like Bandler, Rohn and Pagan touch you and your doing something everyday to move you towards what you want tell me you’re well on the way to escaping the hole.
You’re right. Cleanses aren’t much fun.
I’m a 140 pound nerd. Only got up to 175 pounds when I did a serious weight lifting, protein overdrive, supplements up the yin yang program.
Because my frame doesn’t take on fat the acid built up in my body from eating garbage for all the years came out of my body in the form of acne.
If I hadn’t gotten my health under control I’da been a grown man with pock marks on my face. Educating myself about health saved me from this.
Who knows what was next. When the acid in your body can’t be buffered by fat it goes out of the skin which leads to acne, dandruff, athletes foot, pretty much any kind of skin irritation.
But if your skin is irritated as hell already and you keep shoving the traditional American diet into your mouth the acid attacks your organs and bones. This is where cancer comes in.
Listening to Tony’s seminar was the most compelling sales presentation I’ve ever seen on watching what I eat.
I don’t eat perfect now but I’ll always remember what Tony taught me. And this keeps my mind eager for the power of cleansing and making wiser food choices 70-80% of the time.
What helps me stay on track is to be reading something about health at least 3 times a week. Preferably daily.
When I don’t, the whole out of sight out of mind phenomena takes over.
Also exercising keeps me conscious of what I eat. The last thing I want is to go into a workout at the tail end of a sugar crash or feeling bloated and heavy because I ate a coma inducing portion of food an hour before.
I only reward myself with a treat after I’ve done my work.
Another thing that helps me is the whole Eben Pagan 50-50-30 deal. If you eat light at the 30 minute segment, you definitely noticed you feel more energized. But if you pig out, you notice that too.
I’ll be looking forward to hearing about your progress Tim. So will #1.
Take care. Talk to you again soon.
Note Taking Nerd #2
January 28, 2009 at 10:57 am
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