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