Are you sure the food you are eating is healthy?

Finding healthy foods is getting harder every day. Even buying food labeled organic does not guarantee that the food inside the package is healthy.

For example, the only healthy beef is 100% grass-fed, start to finish, raised on organic pastures, and humanely brought to slaughter. Beef labeled organic can be fed organic grains and kept in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) just like factory farm animals. The only differences are their diet and they are not given antibiotics or hormones. Grain-fed animals do not provide healthy meat. Grass-fed meat, if not 100%, may be grain-finished for fattening. This is also a less healthy option.

Dairy products are controversial. Some say they should be avoided. Humans are the only creatures on earth that drink milk after weaning. Others say that raw milk is a healthy food. Now, it is true that pasteurized milk is not healthy. Most of the enzymes and other components that make milk a healthy food have been destroyed during the pasteurization process. Raw milk, from cows with the beta A2 casein gene or from goats, raised on organic pastures is a healthy food. Even better is a specific type of cultured milk, Amasai, from A2 beta casein cows.

Non-organic fruits and vegetables are sprayed with toxic pesticides and some, like Hawaiian papayas, some zucchini, and zucchini, may be genetically modified (GMO). Studies have shown that organically grown products are more nutrient dense than non-organic ones. However, sometimes buying organic can be out of your budget limits. So, if you are not buying organic produce, you need to know which fruits and vegetables have the most pesticide residue and which have the least.

If you buy packaged foods, you must be diligent in reading ingredient lists, even organic foods. If you buy non-organic packaged foods, you are probably eating GMO foods. Most non-organic packaged foods contain GMO ingredients from corn, soybeans, sugar beets, canola oil, or cottonseed oil.

If you don’t recognize all the ingredients as common non-GMO foods and you don’t know what the other ingredients are, you have several options:

1. Don’t buy it.

2. Buy it anyway and risk eating foods that have ingredients that are harmful to your health. This is a huge contributing factor to all the obesity and diseases that are rife in our society today.

3. Learn to read ingredient lists and know what the ingredients are and how healthy or unhealthy they are. Then make your choice from an informed place, knowing what type of risk you are taking, that is, choose your risk.

Do you know that at this time, behind closed doors, there is a movement to lower organic standards to allow “synthetic and non-organically produced ingredients to be freely added to organic foods, provided they have, theoretically, nutritional value”? In fact, recently, carrageenan, a possible carcinogen as determined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, was re-evaluated by a meeting of the National Organic Program Board. It was decided to continue allowing this carcinogenic ingredient to be used in certified organic food.

Also, did you know that most organic food companies are owned by the mainstream food industry? This is the reason for the move to lower organic standards.

So how can you ensure that the food you eat is healthy?

– Shop beyond organic

– Buy 100%, from start to finish, green fed

– Buy raw cheese or dairy products grown from 100% green foods, rich in probiotics, such as Amasai

– Buy your eggs and poultry from farms where chickens are outdoors and have room to roam

– Buy organic products or choose from the “15 clean”

– Always read the labels when buying packaged food

– Buy from farmers and companies who are truly committed to producing healthy products, not those who only do it for the profit.

Yes, it is getting harder and harder to choose healthy foods because we have an industry that is determined to genetically engineer every seed and use the cheapest synthetic ingredients to maximize your profits at the expense of your health.

Then what do you do?

Become an informed consumer. Spend more time researching. You might be surprised how much healthy food choices improve your health.