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52 Weeks – Week #25, Upgrade Your Sunscreen

This week’s change: Upgrade Your Sunscreen.  Quality matters.

Level of Discomfort (10 being the most painful): 2

Why:  Chemical shit storm and cancer.

The sun isn’t the enemy, excess sun is your enemy.

Links:

Environmental working group is the best resource for info on sunscreen safety.  They are a great resource for all personal care products. 

https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/

What do we substitute in place of it, if anything?  Cover up when you’ve had enough sun.   There is no other good choice.  Quality sunscreen or clothes. Pick one.

Potential Positive Outcomes: 

Reduced risk of chemically induced cancer.

Higher functioning health because you’ve reduced the hormone disruptors being mainlined into your body via your skin via low quality sunscreen products.  Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t running amok in your body. Your body is your biggest organ.  Whatever you spread on your skin is quickly and easily absorbed into your body. 

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52 Weeks, Week #24 – Support Local Farming

Week # 24

This week’s change: Support Local Farming

Level of Discomfort (10 being the most painful): 1-2

Why: Better quality, lower prices, improved  carbon footprint, supports local business. 

When you buy ANY product, you are telling the producer of that product that you want more. That’s how fashion trends and such explode. 

Tell your farmers you want MORE ORGANIC.  Supply will eventually meet demand.

If you keep buying crappy veggies, they’ll keep growing them.

Links: I wrote this article about my farmer’s market but there is some good sidebar info on how to talk to your farmer about their growing practices.

https://jodibrownceo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/PM-April-2018-Farming.pdf

What do we substitute in place of it, if anything?  Buying from your local food co-op/hippy store

Potential Positive Outcomes:

Everyone benefits from you buying locally (preferably organic) produced food items.  You benefit most because the quality of locally sourced food is far superior to what  you’d buy in your big box supermarket. Your local farmer benefits as well because you are directly funneling money into a a local business (farmers are business people) instead of a huge corporation. 

Don’t forget the mother ship, Planet Earth.  By reducing energy costs normally incurred by shipping foods across the country (or around the world) we are able to reduce the amount of precious resources consumed by shipping foods grown outside of the region where they are grown.

Produce, eggs, animal proteins, honey…more and more items are showing up at your local farmers market every week.  When you buy locally grown organic food items from your local farmer, they also last longer in your refrigerator.

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All material provided on this website is provided for informational or educational purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your healthcare professional or physician.

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52 Weeks, Week #23 – Eliminate Corn

This week’s change: Eliminate corn from your diet

Level of Discomfort (10 being the most painful):  6-8

Why:

It’s inflammatory and one of the top 9 most genetically modified foods. 

Here’s the dealio folks — wheat, corn and soy are huge crops in the US and they appear in a myriad of confusing forms in just about everything we eat.  They are utterly pervasive in all prepared foods and because they change up the name of it with such great frequency, it’s hard to identify.

For example…did you know that these products are commonly derived from corn?

Caramel, maltodextrin, dextrose, malt flavoring, magnesium citrate, tocopherol (Vitamin E)…

If you are eating processed foods, you are eating corn…in high quantities.

The more of ONE food item that you eat with great regularity, the higher the likelihood you’ll develop a food sensitivity to that food.  If you have leaky gut, your chances of having a problem with corn increase exponentially if you are living on the standard American diet (SAD).

Links:

What is leaky gut and why should you care?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/leaky-gut-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-for-you-2017092212451

This is a very sobering website.  I highly recommend you take a peak at it.  Do you know what you’re eating.

http://www.livecornfree.com/2010/04/ingredients-derived-from-corn-what-to.html

What do we substitute in place of it, if anything?  If the crunch of corn chips is what you seek, you can move over to sweet potato chips temporarily but that’s cheating.  You are substituting one junk food for another.  Albeit a cleaner junk food, but junk food nonetheless.

If you are looking for vegetable substitute for whole ears or kernel corn, there are plenty of veggies to choose from. 

Wanting to move away from corn flour and similar products?  Cassava, coconut, almond…all less inflammatory and cleaner options.

Potential Positive Outcomes:  Fewer symptoms of inflammation (aches, pains, brain fog, lethargy) and fewer GMOS and the chemicals that treat them knocking around in your body. 

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52 Weeks, Week #22 – Eat Lunch Outside

Week # 22

This week’s change: Eat Lunch Outside

Level of Discomfort (10 being the most painful): 0

Why:  Vitamin D & Nature

Vitamin D deficiency is one of the most critical components to good health.  Back in the early 1980s someone decided that the sun was our enemy and since, Vitamin D deficiencies are rampant worldwide.  Sun isn’t your enemy, excess sun is your enemy.

When we started adding sunblock to everything (make up, lotion, blah, blah, blah) Vitamin D deficiencies blew up and out of proportion.  It took science a few years to figure out that a ton of medical outcomes they were scratching their heads over were directly related to Vitamin D deficiencies.

Go outside. 

Breath some fresh air. 

Visit with a friend. 

Get your bare feet on the ground.

If you sit with your arms and face exposed in the sun for just 15 minutes every day you’ll be back on Vitamin D awesome. Plus, being in the company of Mother Nature is good fo your mind and soul, too.

15-20 minutes a day of sunshine, without sunscreen, arms and face uncovered, is what most folks need to maintain a good level of Vitamin D.  Unless you are living in the Southern hemisphere while you are reading this,  it’s summertime and you should be taking advantage of getting  your Vitamin D the way nature intended, from the sun, not a pill.

Vitamin D supplementation can be important for those who are dreadfully low to begin with, but you can keep your stores high be get outside.

Links:

https://autoimmuneceo.com/sunscreen/

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-david-samadi/vitamin-d-may-be-the-most-important-nutrient-you-need_b_8235466.html

What do we substitute in place of it, if anything?  Good quality Vitamin D supplements. Buy wisely.  Vitamin D is critical to good health.

Potential Positive Outcomes:  Overall better health due to Vitamin D being the necessary and missing component to many of the metabolic reactions your body needs but can’t make happen due to Vitamin D deficiency.

Get out in the fresh air is super great for you as well.  Being locked up inside all day every day in polluted environments (low air quality inside is also a huge problem) give you an added bonus.  Put your damn phone down, head out with a friend and VISIT.  There is NO downside.

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52 Weeks – Week #21 – Grow Something

This week’s change: Grow something, anything at all.

Level of Discomfort (10 being the most painful): 2

Why: It’s good for your soul. 

Growing anything, is an opportunity to start cultivating a deep appreciation for what it takes to put food on your table 3-5 times a day.  It’s no easy task.  The satisfaction that comes with growing something that you can consume is great.  You don’t have to plant an entire garden.  A 5 gallon bucket with a tomato plant or a bunch of basil can bring satisfaction even to those with the toughest of hearts.

I wish I had more time to stick my hands in the soil.  One of the most satisfying things I have ever known is bringing a seed to fruit and enjoying it.  Try it.  You might like it.

All change doesn’t have to be hard. 

Remember, organic for everything.

Links:

Small space inspiration

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/506866133041062640/?lp=true

Potential Positive Outcomes:  Joy, satisfaction and good health.

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All material provided on this website is provided for informational or educational purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your healthcare professional or physician.

 

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