What should I eat?

The short answer is: unprocessed food. Or at least food that has been processed as little as possible. How do I know what has been processed? Basically, food or beverage items that have labels listing all of their ingredients have been processed, such as cornflakes or potato chips or apple juice. Food that does not have a label has not or has barely been processed, such as a banana or spinach or water. The more processed, the longer the list of ingredients …the harder the words to pronounce …and the unhealthier for you. If you don’t know what an ingredient is, you probably shouldn’t put it in your body because your cells won’t know what to do with it. Based on the development of us human beings, our cells were designed to recognize and process only the “ingredients” that can be found in nature. Those are the foods I refer to when I am talking about “original” foods. Our ancestors were hunters and gatherers. They ate and drank what nature provided them with. Apples grow on trees. Calcium disodium EDTA doesn’t, it is just one of many inventions by the food industry. To make your body work at its best you need to feed it what it is designed for. I am always laughing at labels saying “made with real fruit”. Well, what else would it be made of other than “real fruit”? Is there something like “fake fruit”? And then, I am always wondering why people just wouldn’t eat the fruit by itself without all the other ingredients this product is made with? I’d rather eat a bunch of strawberries than a yogurt made with strawberries. How many strawberries are even in one cup of strawberry yogurt? I doubt it is more than half a strawberry (experiment: take a cup of unflavored but sweetened yogurt and see how many strawberries you have to add to get the same strawberry flavor as in your store bought strawberry yogurt). With that small amount of “real fruit” where does the strawberry flavor come from? Oh, right, let’s check the ingredient label: processed milk, sugar, strawberries, modified corn starch, Kosher gelatin, natural flavor, pectin, colored with carmine, vitamin A acetate, Vitamin D3. Yummy, pectin and carmine… carmine comes from crushed bugs to add the red color, yes, little bugs… oh and natural flavor. Why adding flavor? Shouldn’t the flavor come from all those strawberries they put in the yogurt? It doesn’t really. While the food industry uses some fruit to make concentrated jam-like products, it also creates flavors in their laboratories and adds it in concentrated form to their products. Your yogurt has never seen a real fruit. And wow, look, 18 grams of sugar! That is a lot of sugar! Since sugar was listed second and strawberries were listed third on the label there is more sugar in your yogurt than strawberries. Doesn’t sound healthy to me at all. Just FYI, a medium size strawberry has only 0.6 grams of sugar… and no other ingredients… just saying. Imagine how many strawberries you have to eat to get 18 grams of sugar (you would actually be getting “good” natural sugar, not industrial sugar) and all the vitamins and minerals you can nourish your body with from all that unprocessed “real” fruit! Still think your daily yogurt is healthy? Not even talking about the milk and how that has been processed… I am not trying to spoil your cup of yogurt. I am just trying to open your eyes so you are aware of what is in your yogurt so you can decide for yourself whether you still want to eat it or not. I don’t even remember the last time I ate a yogurt.

Here is a video of how fruit yogurt is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kecBi27dhjw

There are so many other examples of how the food industry tricks you into believing that their products are healthy. Anything that says '“added vitamins” or “now with even more calcium” or “less calories” or “low fat”… keep in mind, this is all processed food but it’s supposed to sound healthy! “Original” food already contains vitamins or calcium and is naturally low in calories or fat - it doesn’t need to be processed and packaged.

In my opinion, the best you can do for your body - and therefore for yourself - is to eat by far more unprocessed food than processed food. Eat lots of raw fruit and vegetables every day and eat processed food only on occasion. Focus on nourishing your body and give it the chance to work at its best. This will keep you healthy, energized and happy! And who wouldn’t want that???

Here is an example of how one day of eating can look like. Since your body gets hungry 4-6 times a day, eating a few small meals throughout the day will keep you satisfied and nourished:

  • Breakfast: banana, apple and a handful of of unsalted walnuts

  • Snack: cucumber slices with turmeric and little bit of garlic sprinkled on top

  • Lunch: salad with little bit of dressing, some quinoa, a hard boiled egg, sunflower seeds

  • Snack: grapes

  • Dinner: small piece of chicken with cooked broccoli

  • …and lots of water and tea with lemon juice and some honey for sweetening