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Modern Nutrition is Poisoning our Children

8th June 2014 7:50 am / 4 Comments / Nicky

Two whole wheat sandwiches, low fat biscuits, four pieces of fruit PLUS an orange juice and some low fat chocolate biscuits? This is FAR from the things we should be feeding our kids.

One thing that truly disturbs me is the health of our children. It breaks my heart to see the sudden meteoric rise in childhood illnesses, allergies, disorders both behavioural, mental and physical.

Am I the only one that ponders these conundrums or are there other parents out there that wonder the same things? Am I the only one that ever says WTF? Actually, if I’m being completely honest, most of the time I say “WTFnF!!!!!”.

What I really want to do is encourage EVERY mum and dad that gives 2 hoots about their kids to scream “THIS IS NOT OK!!!” Because it’s just not.

I believe in my heart of hearts, and from all the research I have done, that **it’s the food**. Plain and simple. We are no longer feeding our children food, but food-like substances. We are poisoning them, slowly but surely. I am not even exaggerating. I am not talking about the occasional ‘treat’ of fast food. I’m talking about your bread and Weet-bix and Rice Bubbles and Tim Tams and Tiny Teddies and pasta and margarine and sauces and ice cream and muesli bars and biscuits and chips and juices and soft drinks. Your average, everyday type foods. These ‘foods’ are loaded with **Wheat – Sugar – Vegetable Oil – Soy**. These should be ‘NEVER’ foods.

I believe these ‘food’ stuffs are the cause of our modern disease epidemic. I believe they are just as dangerous to the human body as smoking is, if not worse. I am not even joking. A biscuit isn’t a ‘treat’. An ice cream isn’t a ‘treat’. French fries cooked in canola oil aren’t a ‘treat’. This is poison and is causing an emergency response inside your little humans body. You won’t get this information from the food companies, or from any health ‘authority’. As if they’d want the general public to know that. You’d stop funding them if you knew the truth.

Every little human deserves good food. They deserve the BEST start in life. They deserve to be disease-free. They deserve to know what it feels like to have their bodies fuelled by the right fuel. Please, please, please ONLY EVER give your children REAL food.

I made a promise to my children, well over a year ago now, to only ever feed them REAL food. I have not swayed from that, not even once, and they are teenagers with attitude. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt you’ll see an almost immediate improvement in their health, their mood, their skin, their sleep, their eyes, their ability to concentrate. Try it, I dare you.

Just on a little side note …
My daughter spent most of the first 3 months of this year eating out at her BF’s house. (She is currently living with father in C’town). Eating nothing but supermarket packaged ‘food’. I could not believe the decline in her health in this short space of time. Like, I’m talking gobsmacking!! Mother was mortified. She was covered in eczema and looked so bloated, like she was having an allergic reaction. She was subsequently guided back to only eating real low carb high (saturated) fat foods and I’m happy to report she is now 10kg lighter and returning to her former healthy self. Phew!!!

Posted in: Carbohydrates, Kids Health, Low Carb/High Fat, Processed Food, Saturated Fat

In the (ever-shrinking) shadow of my superstar husband lies 4 newborn babies!

24th October 2013 12:33 am / 3 Comments / Nicky

 

Ever since we have gone LCHF it has been my husband, Chris, who has had the most impressive weight loss out of the 2 of us. He has lost an incredible 36kg to date and is definitely the star of this show. Personally, I couldn’t believe what was happening to him, and right before my very eyes. I mean I see him EVERY day, we work together, live together, eat together, and sleep together and it was truly blowing my mind how fast this man was shrinking!

It was all very private and personal up until this point because 2 years ago we moved 5 hours away from most of our family and friends and don’t often get to see them in person anymore. It was private and personal up until I proudly shared his photo on Facebook! It definitely sparked lots of interest from our friends who wanted to know how he did it. So to save repeating the same story 50 times over we created the Edify website.

Everybody loves an incredible weight loss story, especially with amazing before and after photos. I am so incredibly proud of my husband and words cannot express how  grateful I am to know he is no longer heading to an early grave, especially after seeing how close his own father was to death a couple of years ago as a result of being morbidly obese and diabetic. While I have never cared about anybody’s weight, I have always been frightened of the health complications that come with obesity.

Newborn Baby

So in the ever-shrinking shadow of my superstar husband, I too have been losing weight. Frustratingly not as much, or as fast, as said superstar but plodding along nicely. 12kg in total over a 6 month period. I wanted to make this post for all of you, like me, that get frustrated with a slower weight loss than all those superstars out there. I wanted to encourage you, like I sometimes have to encourage myself, that these things DO take time. I had a bit of an epiphany in the shower the other day. While I was feeling sorry for myself in ONLY having lost 12kg, for some strange reason I thought about the weight of my beautiful daughter when she first entered this world. She weighed 3kg. Then it hit me, I have lost the weight of 4 .. that’s FOUR  .. newborn babies!!!

😀 😀 😀

Posted in: #Edify Food, Uncategorized, Weight Loss / Tagged: Weight Loss

Butter v Margarine

14th October 2013 12:29 am / Leave a Comment / Nicky

For anyone eating anything other than butter my advice would be to STOP IMMEDIATELY! Margarine is toxic to the human body and toxins cause INFLAMMATION within the blood vessels. Toxins are substances that your body was never designed to eat. Chronic inflammation is the real CAUSE of Heart Disease, not cholesterol.

Imagine rubbing the inside of your blood vessels with a wire brush. This is what you are doing 3, 4, even 5 times a day, every day, every time you ingest a toxic substance like margarine, trans fats, vegetable oils, sugar and starch. You are injuring your blood vessels. Cholesterol, which is essential to life, is supposed to flow smoothly through your blood vessels. Once injury and inflammation begins, cholesterol gets caught on the vessel walls and when this happens the body tries to heal itself by oxidising the cholesterol which, over time, builds up as plaque on the blood vessel wall. Eventually this causes the blood flow to slow down and sometimes stop altogether leading to Heart Disease, Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, and Stroke.

To reduce your risk of Heart Disease, switch to a diet that is high in naturally occurring saturated fats (like those found in animals, coconuts, fish, nuts) and low in carbohydrates. Ditch the highly refined sugars, breads, pastas and grains. They too are just as toxic.

Resources:

David Gillespie: Is the Heart Foundation’s advice killing us?

Article: World Renown Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

Article: Don’t Eat Toxins

Video: Forget Cholesterol, Inflammation’s the Real Enemy

Video: Enjoy Eating Saturated Fats: They’re Good for You.

The Science: Use of dietary linoleic acid for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and death: evaluation of recovered data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study and updated meta-analysis

 

Posted in: #Edify Food, Low Carb/High Fat, Processed Food, Saturated Fat

Diseases/Ailments linked to Chronic Inflammation

13th October 2013 11:48 pm / Leave a Comment / Nicky

chronicInflammation

Over the last 6 months I have spent 100’s and 100’s of hours researching the modern diet (SAD – Standard Australian/American Diet). I have read countless books, articles, websites, scientific papers, watched dozens of interviews, documentaries, Ted talks etc etc etc.
In that time I have accumulated a list of diseases/ailments that have been strongly connected to the SAD diet, in other words a diet high in carbohydrates and low in saturated fats.
Most of these (if not all) are caused by CHRONIC INFLAMMATION (and no, not high cholesterol – what a croc that is!! High levels of Triglycerides, on the other hand, are a pretty sure indicator of inflammation. That and high blood sugar levels.).

Here they all are;

  • Heart Disease
  • Obesity
  • Overweight/Underweight
  • Type 2 Diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Schizophrenia
  • ADHD
  • Autism
  • Alzheimer’s Disease (Type 3 Diabetes)
  • Dementia
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Epilepsy
  • Insomnia
  • Cancer
  • Arthritis
  • Autoimmune Diseases
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Headaches/Migraines
  • Gut problems eg: IBS, Crohn’s Disease, Leaky Gut etc
  • Skin Disorders eg. Acne, Psoriasis etc
  • Tourette’s Syndrome
  • Mood Disorders

I’m sure there’s a few I’ve missed but you get the general gist.

The food toxins that can lead to inflammation are;
Carbohydrates (sugars/grains/starches. Limit fruit to max. one piece a day.)
Vegetable Oils & Margarine/spreads (contain dangerously high levels of Omega 6’s and have also been linked to cancer. Majority of fast food is cooked in this.)
Processed Soy
GMO’s (of course)

Some of you will be ostriches and bury your heads in the sand, and that’s fine, you’re grown ups. But I do urge you to think about the health of your kids. It upsets me no end when I keep hearing that our children will be the first generation in the history of history to NOT live longer than the previous generation.

Posted in: #Edify Food, Low Carb/High Fat, Saturated Fat

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