| By following the basic rules of variety, | | | | non-hydrogenated oils in our foods and stay |
| moderation (portion control), and balance, | | | | away from as much animal fat as possible. |
| you can plan your daily healthy recipes in | | | | |
| accordance with Canada's Food Guide. You can | | | | Using healthy meat in recipes means we use |
| partake in almost any food without guilt or | | | | grain fed, pesticide free organic meats. It |
| worry. You are able to use healthy recipes to | | | | may cost a little more, and you may have to |
| learn to utilize foods to lower your risk of | | | | order ahead of date required (ie. organically |
| heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers. | | | | fed - free range birds and free range |
| | | | organically fed cows). It is highly |
| By using healthy recipes utilizing any | | | | recommended for your good health as these |
| freshly grown local produce; preferably | | | | animals will not have been fed anti-biotics, |
| organic, pesticide free; where possible, eat | | | | which normally would pass through the meat |
| fresh fruits and vegetables. Use the least | | | | and into our bloodstreams as we eat the meat; |
| amount of salt and sugar; where possible | | | | thereby enabling our systems to build up |
| eliminate both, for your heart's sake. Most | | | | anti-immunities to these drugs. The more we |
| fruits do not need sugar added, and most | | | | eat those antibiotic filled meats, the more |
| vegetables do not need salt. | | | | anti-biotics become immune to new and old |
| | | | diseases. Stay with organic meats!! |
| Learn to eat less sweets and use Splenda, a | | | | |
| natural sugar replacement as often as | | | | Learning to eat healthfully by using foods |
| possible in healthy recipes, in order to keep | | | | that are pesticide free, organically fresh, |
| sugar intake lower, and sea salt in place of | | | | locally grown, and not genetically altered, |
| regular table salt, to keep our intake of | | | | will show you not only the benefits of a |
| processed iodized salt. Packaged and canned | | | | healthy body, but a healthy mind. |
| products are usually heavily salted or | | | | |
| sugared and it is not necessary - our bodies | | | | Finally, learning to use healthful foods to |
| just do not need it. Choose light and low | | | | benefit our healthy recipes, choose to using |
| sugared and salted canned foods if you must. | | | | these recipes as a canvas and you be the |
| | | | painter. Healthful foods need not be boring |
| Learn to read labels of packaged or processed | | | | or complicated or take ages to make. Using a |
| foods, often the "healthy nutritious" part of | | | | healthful recipe is a creation of art, and |
| the food has been taken out of the actual | | | | especially so, when you learn the benefits of |
| food by the time it reaches our mouths - home | | | | and what constitutes healthy eating. |
| made healthy grown food, used in healthy | | | | |
| recipes tastes much better than processed | | | | Remember we are what we eat! |
| foods. It has been recommended that we use | | | | |