| Eat Across the Color Scheme of Fruits and | | | | positively, 100% will make you fat" and adversely |
| Vegetables - | | | | affect your health. |
| The beneficial color pigments in fruits and | | | | Many experts believe all of the artificial additives, |
| vegetables protect these living foods from | | | | hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides we put in our |
| oxidative stress. When we consume these fruits | | | | food are responsible for everything from cancer, |
| and vegetables, these same pigments protect our | | | | depression, obesity, and a multitude of other |
| bodies form oxidative stress and provide a natural | | | | degenerative diseases. |
| energy boost. | | | | So how do you protect yourself from these |
| Become aware of the color schemes you are | | | | dangerous poisons? It's not as difficult as you |
| eating in fruits and vegetables and eat as many | | | | might have thought. Change where you shop and |
| different colors as you can every day. Some of | | | | know what you're putting into your body. |
| the most powerful colors are your reds [organic | | | | Consider shopping at grocery stores like Whole |
| apples, red peppers, berries], greens [broccoli, | | | | Foods, Wild Oats, and Trader Joe's. These grocers |
| spinach, green vegetables], purples [blueberries | | | | have made a name for themselves by carrying |
| and other purple-toned berries], and oranges | | | | exclusively all natural and organic products. |
| [oranges, peppers]. | | | | 12 Short Food Rules from Michael Pollan - |
| There is also now just starting to be scientific | | | | 1. Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't |
| evidence that shows organically grown fruits and | | | | recognize as food. |
| vegetables contain higher amounts of these | | | | 2. Avoid foods containing ingredients you can't |
| powerful color pigments. This makes sense if you | | | | pronounce. |
| think about it. Organically grown fruits and | | | | 3. Don't eat anything that wouldn't eventually rot. |
| vegetables encounter greater oxidative stresses, | | | | 4. Avoid food products that carry health claims. |
| particularly in the form of insects (no herbicides | | | | 5. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay |
| and pesticides used). To combat these | | | | out of the middle. |
| environmental stresses they have developed | | | | 6. Better yet, buy food somewhere else: the |
| higher levels of these defensive compounds, | | | | farmer's market or CSA (Community Supported |
| which ultimately benefit us when we eat organic | | | | Agriculture). |
| fruits and vegetables. | | | | 7. Pay more, eat less. |
| Eat Organic - | | | | 8. Eat a wide diversity of species. |
| An excerpt from Kevin Trudeau's book The | | | | 9. Eat food from animals that eat grass. |
| Weight Loss Cure says it best, "If food is not | | | | 10. Cook and, if you can, grow some of your |
| 100% organic, the food is loaded with herbicides, | | | | own food. |
| pesticides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, and over | | | | 11. Eat meals and eat them only at tables. |
| 15,000 man-made chemicals. This is unique to | | | | 12. Eat deliberately, with other people whenever |
| America. American produced food absolutely, | | | | possible, and always with pleasure. |