Healthy Changes in Our Family´s Diet

My husband and I made an important, life-changing decision for our family last night. We are eliminating processed sugar, food coloring, vegetable oils, and processed foods from our home. Why are we being so radical? We want to prevent illnesses, and want our family to grow up healthy. This doesn't mean we can't go out to eat or have something sweet once in a while, but we don't want any of the above products in our home.

I made my grocery list last night from my eMeals' weekly menu, and I headed out this morning to go shopping at Aldi. I had purposed to read all ingredient labels to make sure I didn't bring home the forbidden items. Here is my list:

• white mushrooms
• kiwis
• lettuce
• tomatoes
• cucumbers
• cantaloupe
• cabbage
• pork chops
• corned beef brisket
• canned peas (sugar - bought frozen peas instead)
• canned refried beans
• canned black olives
• canned cream of chicken soup (sugar)
• canned sauerkraut
• canned mixed vegetables
• prepared brown gravy (sugar)
• brown gravy mix (sugar)
• taco seasoning (sugar)
• onion soup mix (sugar)
• dinner rolls (sugar)
• Italian bread (sugar)
• wheat bread (sugar)
• sliced Swiss cheese
• chips (sugar - bought some pita chips that had palm oil and sea salt instead)
• mayonnaise (sugar)

I didn't write the quantities as that is irrelevant for this post. Did you know that pickles have food coloring in them? I discovered that most of the items on my list contained at least one form of sugar if not more (I wasn't too concerned about honey).

Research has shown:

• Processed sugar blocks the absorption of calcium.
• Processed sugar produces a low oxygen environment (which cancer thrives in).
• Processed sugar is extremely acidic (cancer proliferates in an acidic body pH).
• Processed sugar can be the death of the immune system. It interrupts the Kreb's energy cycle, which suppresses your immune system's manufacture of killer cells and antibodies!
• Processed sugar depletes B vitamins needed by the liver to detoxify it—the liver is your main detox organ.
• Sugar averages for children are around 36 teaspoons a day in the U.S. Processed sugar consumption quickly robs the oxygen from the little bodies of children making their cells extremely acidic, shutting off their immune systems. Read full article here.

 I did not buy any items on my list that went against our new diet. Instead I am slowly looking for recipes for those items. Right now I am making a sugar-free bread recipe. I'll let you know how it turns out, and I'll post the recipe if we like it.

This is just one of the many changes our family will be making. We have just purchased the book "Killing Cancer - Not People" by Robert G. Wright, and we will be following his recommended protocol to prevent cancer. I will keep you updated on our progress as we read through this book, and how these small but important changes are changing our family forever.

To see a list of natural sweeteners click here
To purchase the book "Killing Cancer - Not People" click here. The book is available as an e-book as well.