The Second Cause of Stress and Disease

Diet, especially sugar, refined flour, and trans fats

Yes, your diet. And don’t tell me you don’t know what you should eat. You know that a Little Debbie isn’t good food, and broccoli is good food.

I see too many people act helpless to eat a good diet, and I just won’t have it. Well, I do have it…I am a softy, so I encourage and correct, encourage and correct, with the hopes that they will “get it” sooner or later.

But it is frustrating to see people feel and act helpless to know what to eat.

There is an art to eating a healthy diet, and you can have your cake and eat it too. Yes, I will say it…in moderation. Moderation and “paying off” your indulgences is the path to de-stressing your diet.

You see, when you eat junk food, foods laden with sugar, white flour, or trans fats, you stress your blood glucose regulation. This system involves the whole digestive tract, pancreas, adrenal, thyroid and pituitary glands, and all the cells this system is feeding. And the food provides ENERGY. Energy is FUN.

You feel great when you have abundant energy from a good diet and a healthy system.

If we take an extreme…you never eat healthy food…you ALWAYS eat fast food, junk food, sugar, artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives…you have NO chance of de-stressing your body. You will succumb to disease, and you will die prematurely. From what depends on your genetics…diabetes, cancer, heart disease…

And the reason is stress. It is stressful to eat junk food…if you could take a microscope to your insides, you would see cells screaming and crying, fighting for their lives, trying their best to make do with a natural disaster. You should never do that to your cells. You should love your cells.

But remember, I said you can have your cake and eat it too. That means you don’t have to be perfect. There is no such thing as perfect. I teach my clients to “pay it off.”

What does that mean?

Well, if you have pizza and beer night, have a salad first. Go for a walk the next morning. Do 50 pushups. Eat a bunch of fiber. Take some extra fish oils. Eat a chicken breast with your pizza, or some broccoli. Take some extra B vitamins, Liver support nutrients, antioxidants, inflammation support…

Pay it off!

And, you will become bankrupt if you have to pay it off every day or every meal. You can’t compensate for a total lack of essential nutrients, massive sugar overload, and flooding your system with chemicals.

More great news…eating healthy and supporting your cells isn’t that difficult. I can walk someone through the process of making just a few different choices, focusing a little bit differently, and finding your healthy diet, in just a few weeks…as long as you/they are willing.

It is vastly more difficult to shift the stressed out hormonal system, including insulin, back to a healthy state. Generally, by the time I get these stressed out folks, their thyroid, adrenals, pituitary and pancreas have been affected, along with steroid hormones, those specific to gender.

It takes more effort…we have to be closer to perfect…and we have to flood the body with essential nutrients and herbs that will sustain and stimulate internal functions. But, it can always be accomplished!