May 28, 2025

Smart Cart, Healthy Heart- Living Healthier Lives while Making Better Choices at the Grocery Store

Smart Cart, Healthy Heart- Living Healthier Lives while Making Better Choices at the Grocery Store
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Season 1

Join Bonita with personal chef Allyson Lipnack, as we learn how to live healthier lives without the stress of cooking. We will navigate the grocery store by helping you find cleaner, healthier products. Let's make healthy living simple, so you can focus on enjoying life while knowing your nutrition is taken care of. Allyson has a passion for cooking and a commitment to your well-being - she will show you how to support your health and vitality to live a longer, healthier life!

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Welcome to to Ask Good Questions Podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,

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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at

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we will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,

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as well as a focus on health and wellment. Now,

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let's join your hosts, Banita Bell Anderson as together we

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start with Asking Good Questions.

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Hey, welcome to the Ask Good Questions podcast. I am

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so excited for you to be here today because this

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is a topic that, oh my goodness, all of us

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need to hear the information that this special guest is

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going to impart today. These are going to be golden

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nuggets as we say so, I'd like to invite her.

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Her name is Alison Lipnak. I'm going to invite her

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to the proverbial podcast stage so you can all meet her. Hello,

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Hello Allison, Hi Allison, I'm spacing on where you're coming from.

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Where are you at in the United States.

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Where's the hottest place in the United States?

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Well, Arizona usually.

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Nope, Florida, yes, South Florida, just as the most humid place.

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I was going to say hot and humid.

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Well cool.

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Well.

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Allison is a personal chef, and I'm going to give

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you just a little bit of information and she can

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add to this if she wishes. She helps individuals live

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healthier lives without the stress of cooking. As a personal chef,

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she creates nutritious, delicious meals tailored to your preference and

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dietarian needs. In addition to meal preparations, she also teaches

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you how to navigate the grocery store, which is what

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we're going to do today, and I think you're going

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to get some fantastic information about that to help you

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find healthier, cleaner products, which is sometimes very hard for

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us to figure out. Her mission is to make healthy

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living simple so you can focus on enjoying life while

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knowing your nutrition is taken care of. Isn't that important?

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With a passion for cooking and a commitment to your

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well being, she provides personalized meal solutions and guidance that

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supports your health and vitality, allowing you to enjoy balanced

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meals without the time and effort of meal prep. That

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is fantastic. What a great way to serve the world.

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So yes, my clients love me. They are so happy

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that I when I.

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Show up, I've got Yeah.

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They're like, I haven't eaten in a way, I haven't

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eaten since you're since you know, we finished your food.

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I mean I literally have a client that I cook

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for on Mondays and I open up for her refrigerator

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and it's completely at the age she always says to me,

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I'm so happy you're here.

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She's like, we have no food. Great to be to have.

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You know, that just helps your self esteem, doesn't it.

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When people go, oh, you're here.

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Yes, yes. And when I get the text and the

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you know, after I leave and they have some of

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the food, you know, I get the text sing, oh

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my god, that was delicious, Oh my god, that was

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the best filet I ever had. Oh my god, that

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was the best crab cake I've ever had. So yeah,

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it's a very it's a great, it's very fulfilling.

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Well, those in your neighborhood will be able to partake

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of that, but if you're not, if you are somewhere

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else in the United States. The focus of today's podcast

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is going to be asking good questions around what's in

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the grocery store, and so we're going to really get

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into that in depth. So, first of all, what really

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inspired you to become a personal shift and how in

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the world do you incorporate this health conscious cooking into

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your career. Let's start there.

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Well, okay, so I've had a passion for cooking, for

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God for well over twenty thirty years. I love to cook.

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I went to the art Institute, so I'm a very

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creative person. So when it came to cooking, it was

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sort of like going to the art store getting your paint,

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getting your canvas is coming back and or you know,

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creating a project. So that was the same thing for me.

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So when I would go to the grocery store knives

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and cutting, it was the same thing. So it was

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very easy for me to pick up cooking and I

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just absolutely loved it and I was good at it.

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And so what got me into health was my brother

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many many years ago. He's been a chiropractor for over

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thirty years, and he was the first person that taught

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me that the body could heal itself. And I was

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always fascinated by it, and I became just loving health

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and food and to where like, there's been times where

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I've gone off of sugar for a year, a totally year,

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and so it's been it's been well over twenty years

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that I have been you know, reading ingredient labels and

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things like that. So I actually went on my own

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health journey. I'm in my middle fifties and you know,

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as women, we tend to we're going through metopause like

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things like that, and our bodies starts to change. And

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I was having some interesting symptoms and different things, and

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I'm the type of person that does wants to get

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to the root cause of issues instead of taking medication,

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and so I contented. I contacted, excuse me, a holistic

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nutritionist and a naturopathic doctors, and we put myself on

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a whole clean protocol of nutrition and basically they kind

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of didn't even have to tell me what to do

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because I picked up I picked it up so quickly

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and I just ran with it, and to the to

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the fact that after I was done, they asked me

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if I would like work with them because they're like,

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you're the only one of our patients that like, is

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so good at what they're doing and what they've learned

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and what they're teaching and putting out there. And then

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the other thing is social media has really it's been

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it's been fantastic because I always put out all kinds

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of stuff and so they were seeing that as well.

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And so that's kind of what got me into that

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I was in a completely other different field. I was

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sitting in front of a computer all day long, every

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day for the last twenty eight years, and I just

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didn't love it anymore. And so I yeah, So that's

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what really pushed me was my health issues and I

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was very unhappy with what I was doing. And I

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have always dreamed of doing this my whole I mean

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for I can't even tell you how long, but I

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never thought that I could actually create a business out

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of it. Like I had no idea like what you

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could cook for people and teach people how to grocery

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shop and read ingredient. I had no idea until I

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started doing it. Like they say, like you don't have

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to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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I took the first step, and just you know, things

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along the way just started happening. I won't go into

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all the details because we only have a certain amount

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of time, but that's.

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How it all began. Awesome. Well, this is let's kind

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of get into some meat and potatoes. What are so

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to speak, what are some of the most common misconceptions

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the people that you think you've seen people have with

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you know, when they think about healthy eating. What are

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some common what are some common things that you hear

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or arguments people give you.

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Okay, so, because whenever I go into a grocery store,

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I'm always I always walk up to people you know

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they're looking. I'll give you an example. In the yogurt ale.

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You're standing in front of this area of yogurts and

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you're looking, and you're picking them up, and you're saying, Okay,

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which one's sugar free, which one's low fat? Because we've

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been told for years that sugar free and low fat

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is the way to go m H, which is the

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absolute complete opposite. That's good, that's good for your health.

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You need that in your body because your actual brain

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is made of cholesterol. You need that for your brain,

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for your organs and so, and then to the low

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fat and then no sugar. So what they did was

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they created artificial sweeteners, which are a thousand times worse

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than sugar. I mean, sugar is not great for you either,

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but artificial sweeteners are known to cause cancer. So what

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they did was, yeah, it's all chemicals, and so what

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they're what they did is they packaged everything as low fat,

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low sugar, no sugar added, or there's just so much

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there is there really is, there's so much or fat

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free or whatever. You know, it's the way they package

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things is amazing.

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So not to be able to recognize, wouldn't you say?

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People would have to start with being able to interpret

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what the label is saying. Like if it says no

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sugar added, that doesn't mean there's no sugar in.

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It, right, So I always tell peoples you have to

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learn how to read an ingredient label. It doesn't matter

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what the front says, it doesn't matter what the side say, whatever,

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is you have to look at the ingredients. So they'll

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say that it's sugar free.

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And blah blah blah.

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But then you turn it over, you look at the

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ingredients and there's gargum in it, which is a thickener.

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There's carrigein in it, which is a thickner, which is poison,

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and then they put sunflower oil in it, which clogs

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your arteries. So if you don't know what to look for,

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that's what I trot. I'm trying to do is bring

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an awareness to people to learn about what ingredients are

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in stuff, because it really is. You know, people don't

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realize that the tobacco companies own your food companies went

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to saying I taught them so cigarette companies. When people

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learned that caused cancer, they stopped buying sick well, not

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stop buying people so smoke, but it lessened. So what

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they did was they scooped up all the food companies

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and they made the food addicting. So what's addictive. Sugar

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is dedictive, you know, and so they started you know,

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I remember back in the day that margarine and margarine

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is probably one of the worst things that you could

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put in your body because it's made with all the

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bad oils that clog your arteries. You're so much better

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off eating regular butter. And yeah, so the cigarette companies,

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you know, they made everything addictive and it's just you know,

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it's it's a vicious cycle. It's a vicious cycle.

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You know.

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If you see, if you see now there's so much

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the rise of disease. You're seeing people that are younger

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and younger get cancer. It's every other person. It's it's ridiculous.

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I just it's cancer, diabetes. I mean, everything is caused

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obviously by environmental you know, we can't it is what

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it is. We're breathing the air and and all that

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other stuff. And there's chemical trails that are you see

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those planes with the lines, those are chemicals. You know,

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why does everybody get sick certain times a year? I

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mean it's just our world, our the United States, everything.

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If the system is really broken, it really it's meant

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for you to get It's it's a it's a it's

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a what do they call it, the wheel of the

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hamster wheel. That's what it basically is, gets you sick

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so that you keep medication and keep making money. It's

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just that so if you prescribe somebody to eat vegetables,

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who's going to make money from that? And they get better, like,

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who's going to make money from that?

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So you know so.

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And the other thing is I always tell people that

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this is this is this is big. Which a lot

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of people don't know, is that our in the United States,

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our fruits, vegetables, and our soy crops, our wheat crops,

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our sugar crops, our corn crops are all sprayed with

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chemicals and the main main, one of the main ingredients

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is life estate, which is an ingredient in roundup. So

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we are digesting round up on a daily basis. When

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they're told, we were told that whole whole, whole wheat,

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wheat is good for you. Like on a box of cheerios,

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there's it says it's hard healthy. That could not be

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the farthest from the truth. It's just it's terrible. It

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really is terrible that the cheerios are It's yeah, it's

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pure chemical, it's chemical chemical, it's highly processed. It's not

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good for your heart.

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So okay, so Ellison, we're walking into the grocery store,

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whatever it is, we're walking into the grocery store. What

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do you think are the most important factors people should

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consider when they're going I'm gonna choose, I'm gonna make

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some healthy choices. Okay, so what what should they be

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thinking as they walk into that store?

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Okay? So should they should be thinking that? First of all,

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I always tell people to download what it's called the

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dirty dozen and the clean fifteen. The dirty dozen is

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the dirtiest fruits and vegetables that are pesticides and all

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that stuff. And then the clean fifteen or the cleanest

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that you don't need to buy orgranite. So that would

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be the first thing is when you're going into a

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grocery store to know what those are, the clean fifteen

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and the dirty dozen, because if it's a dirty dozen,

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you have to buy those things that are are organic.

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So if you're going to buy a strawberries, let me

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stop you and just let me tell everyone. On the

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podcast website, I always have an information sheet about the guest,

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and so on your information sheet, what I want to

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do is put here's the those two things so that

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people don't madly try to write this down.

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Okay, okay, no, pro.

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So dirty dirty doesn't dirty.

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Doesn't, And the clean fifteen Okay, now go ahead, Okay,

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So now so know what those are. So when you're

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going into the grocery store, you know which fruits and

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vegetables to buy organic and which ones you don't have to.

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Then you're going to go into so that's going to

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be the vegetable and the fruit section. Then you're gonna you.

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Want to do you want to just say what they

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are really quickly, though.

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There's a lot. It's I mean, it's I don't know

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them by heart, but I know that the number one

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is the number one is strawberries. Number two, I think

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is blueberries. I think number three is spinach and kale.

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A dirty dozen.

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Yeap, those are the worst. Strawberries has been number one

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for years. Wow, strawberries, blueberries that itch. And here you

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think you're eating healthy because you're getting fruits and vegetables,

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not so much. You're getting the pesticides with those vegetables.

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Yep. And they you know. I've got I've got a

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little aside to tell you. I recently had my micro

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biome micro biome tested, and the thing that came back

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said to stop eating I love blueberries and I usually

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try to have them like every day. It said to

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stop eating blueberries for like a month because there was

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this uh virus or there was something that they could

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that there was I had it picked up that I

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had been that I had chemicals in my body because

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of the blueberries, and I was like, oh my gosh.

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So you're just going, yeah, have you ever bought did

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you buy organic or it was just regular blueberry?

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No, they were regular because the organic was more expensive,

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so they were just regular. Or my husband was just

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buying regular blueberries.

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I always tell everybody more. Yeah, I always tell everybody this,

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and I know it's I know it's a challenge for

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people to afford it, but I will tell you this.

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You either pay now or you're going to pay later.

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But you're going to pay a lot more later because

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you're going to be paying doctor bills. So you either

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spend the money now to feed your body the good stuff,

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or you're going to pay later because it's it's it's inevitable. Unfortunately,

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it is what it is. You know, That's that's the system.

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So does anything else come to mind on the dirty

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dozen strawberry finch?

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Well, you know what, as I'm I could look it

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up as a plant in front of my computer, So

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I could look it up if you want me to.

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But as I'm looking up, I would tell you, let's

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see here, I'm gonna I'm gonna look really really fast.

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Let's see if I can get it really super fast.

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But it's yeah, just have them. Let's say the dirty dozen,

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the Dirty dozen twenty twenty five. Let's see what comes up.

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I'll give you an example. Okay, here we go, the

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Dirty dozen. Strawberry, spinach, kale, collared mustard, greens, peaches, pears, nectarines, apples, grapes,

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bell peppers, cherries, blueberries, green beans. Well, yep, the clean

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fifteen avocado, pineapple, like anything with it with a thick skin.

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Let's see, cabbage just gonn to be typically peeled away.

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Yeah, yeah, so that's what I was. I would tell people.

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And then also I would tell people the same thing

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with your meats. Okay, so since your corn and your

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grains are sprayed with these chemicals, your chickens that you're

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getting the eggs are also eating the grain, and they're

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eating the corn and all they're being fed all of

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that stuff. So therefore your eggs have those chemicals in them.

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Same thing with your cows. So with eggs, it would

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be getting pasture raised organic eggs. That means those chicken

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can roam around freely and eat what they're naturally supposed

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to eat, not grain. Same thing with cows. Cows are

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really supposed to just have grass, cat crap. Cows are

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really not supposed to eat grain. And so because they're

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fed again, they're fed the grain and they're fed the corn,

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and they're fed the soy cheaper. So that's now going

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into their bodies and that's producing milk, which that's again

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going into your body.

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with eggs. The whole thing with past pasture raised is

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what I get now. I used to get cage free,

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but then I learned that cage free might mean that

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there's ten thousand chickens crammed into a space inside a warehouse.

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fat so that they could feed more people. So if

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you're going to have if you're going to get chicken,

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you're going to get I mean, anything that comes from

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an animal, it must be organic. So now with meat,

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with cows and things like that that's got to be

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grass fed, so grass fed finished, So that means that

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the cows have been eating grass like they're supposed to do.

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it hasn't been sprayed with any kind of chemos right,

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same thing with your same thing with all your dairy.

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to be cheese, if it's going to be butter, everything

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should be grass fed. That means it's coming from a

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cow that was eating grass. And it should all say

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non GMO, which a lot of people don't even know

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what if you see all packages now it says GMO.

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That means genetically modified, which again is round up and

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things like that that's been But what they do is

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they take products and they process them so much that

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they're not even genetically the same type of product, and

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it's so processed and then it's got chemicals and that's

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going into your body. So do you see we're one

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plus one equal too. You see why people are getting

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sicker and sicker and sicker. It's because I mean, you know,

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people think I'm crazy because I read every ingredient label

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that goes you know, and you know, I think they're

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crazy for not doing that because it's you know, and

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then there's the bad oils that you know, we've been

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told to eat canola oil, canola oil and vegetable oil.

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I don't know where vegetable oil came from, but there

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are no vegetables in vegetable oil. It's a bunch of

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just crappy oils. And so a lot of those oils

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are causing inflammation in the body. And when there's inflammation

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in the body, there's disease. Right, So the only oils

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and I can you know, and I'll and I'll write

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this down for you too. You know that the only

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oils that are actually good for your heart, that are

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actually good for your body, that don't cause inflammation, are

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a very good quality of a cop because it comes

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from an avocado, coconut oil because it comes from a coconut,

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which is a vegetable. And then olive oil, which comes

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from an olive. But when it comes to oils, when

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you're buying them, do not buy them in plastic bottles.

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forever chemicals. Now people drink so much water and so

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much product that come from plastic bottles. They're now finding

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that when they're doing autopsies that there's you know, plastics

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in people's bodies forever, plastics that are in their bodies.

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So make sure that you're buying everything out of a

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glass jar, and so with specifically with olive oil. Make

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sure that it's a dark glass bottle, and that it's

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single origin, so it's coming from one place. So if

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it's coming so I always most of the time when

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I buy my groceries, if I'm going to buy that,

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I make sure it just comes from Italy. Because Italy

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they don't do all of that. They don't spray their

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stuff with pesticides, and they don't use chemicals. That's why

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when you are here in the United States, you have

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all these ailments and you can't digest gluten, but you

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go over to Italy and you can eat bread and

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pasta and feel perfectly compy.

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I've heard that, Yes, well, I'm worried. I'm worried that

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people could start already being like, I'm overwhelmed. This is overwhelming.

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So how can someone shift to a healthier diet without

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feeling overwhelmed or restricted? Saying oh, she's saying I can't

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do this and I can't do that. How do we

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not get overwhelmed?

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Well, how do you not get You take one thing

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at a time basically, so you take your dirty dozen

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and start with that. Then you start with you know,

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then you maybe switch over your dairy and things like that.

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You know, that's really kind of how you do it.

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I myself never really got overwhelmed, just because I was

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so interested in all of it. But start getting interested in.

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How to.

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Put better food in your body, Like, get interested in

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when you're looking at an ingredient label, it shouldn't be

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twenty ingredients, it should be three or four. So that

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could be a first step. If you see that it's,

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you know, all these ingredients, put it down. If you can't,

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if you can't understand what an ingredient is or one

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of the ingredients, then don't buy it. And so as

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far as like sugar goes because people say, oh my god,

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you know, I need my sweets and things like that,

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So you know what use maple syrup? That was. That's

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another big one is I always I will open up

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people's refrigerators and they're still eating pancakes. Syrup out of

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a plastic container, and which is the worst because it's corn.

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It's corn syrup, so it raises your blood sugar level

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and it's just pure chemical. Buy maple syrup, pure maple

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syrup from a tree. It's like, you know, that's so

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use that as a sweetener. I also love coconut sugar.

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That's a great sweetener. Doesn't taste like coconut, it tastes

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just like brown sugar. And dates there are a great

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source of sugar. So I'm never deprived. I'm always eating

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all the different things. But once you get start to

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get interested in your health and how your body works

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and doing things more natural, start doing research. You know,

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there's so much free stuff on social media when you

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want to put in natural or you know, healthy options,

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or there's so much that you could find that's that

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are free sources. Yeah, I mean it's it's amazing. I

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mean I could just name off all different people that

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I that I follow. It's just once I started learning

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about all of it, it just started coming. You know,

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they always say what you put your what you put

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out comes back. So if you are wanting to learn

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about your health naturally, you know it's going to come.

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You know all the knowledge, all of all that stuff.

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It's going to it's going to come, but you just

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have to you have to be interested in it. That

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has to become a part of a part of your life.

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It's it's for me, it's my way of life.

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It's just is so. Okay, So we're walking into that

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grocery store with you, and what are some of the

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key things that you teach people during your grocery store

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tour that they that you're pretty sure that they probably

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don't know.

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Okay, So I've done it so many times where people

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think that they have to be on a diet or

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that they can't eat anything when they go to a

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grocery store. So that's not the truth. And so I

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00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:11.279
will take What I do is I take them aisle

463
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:14.799
by aisle by aisle, and like I'll have them stand

464
00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:20.559
in front of the prepared salad dressing aisle and I'll

465
00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:24.200
have them pick out which salad dressing. Well, first of all,

466
00:28:24.440 --> 00:28:27.279
the one in the middle. First of all, we'll start

467
00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.599
off with this. Mostly everything in the middle of a

468
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:33.440
grocery store is processed because it's sitting on a shelf

469
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:36.839
and it's you know, so you know, yes, the parameters

470
00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.200
the outside. It is better for you, but it's still

471
00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:43.119
not fantastic. So what I do is I take them

472
00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:45.960
aisle by aisle, have them pick out the salad dressing

473
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.480
in the produce section that's in the refrigerated section, which

474
00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:52.240
solid dressing, and then I'll show them. I'll show them

475
00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.319
which one is healthier, because you know it says heart healthy.

476
00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:58.519
But then you turn it around and the first ingredient

477
00:28:58.599 --> 00:29:01.839
is canola oil. I tell them, okay, that's put that down.

478
00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:05.480
And then but but but at the same time, we'll

479
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:08.279
go down like the chip aisle the potato chips, and

480
00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:10.680
they think that they can't have potato chips, and I say, well,

481
00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:14.960
that's not the truth. Here's two brands that their potato

482
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:17.319
chips are either made with olive oil or they're made

483
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:22.240
with coconut oil, or they're made with avocado oil and

484
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:25.480
they're organic, or they're grained free. And there you go.

485
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:28.319
So you can have potato chips. I wouldn't suggest you

486
00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:30.119
eating a ton of them, because you don't want to

487
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:32.680
gain a ton of weight, but at least you can

488
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:35.920
have some and know that you're not poisoning your body

489
00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:40.920
with bad oil. So that's basically kind of what I

490
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:44.319
do is I show them I swap out. So I

491
00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:49.880
basically have them tell me what they would buy and

492
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:52.319
we'll turn the will turn the package around, I'll show

493
00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:55.839
the ingredients, and then I will show them the healthier version,

494
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:57.799
the healthier product, so that you.

495
00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:59.279
Know what you're talking about.

496
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:05.119
It's it's awareness, right, Yeah, it really is is learning. Yes,

497
00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:07.799
it is an awareness for sure, Like you could still

498
00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:11.160
you know, people love cottage cheese. Well great, that's great,

499
00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:15.599
great protein blah blah blah. So yes, but you got

500
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.000
to have a you've got to have a cottage cheese

501
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:21.920
that's going to be you know, organic or a good one.

502
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.960
So that way, you know the cottage cheese again it's dairies.

503
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:29.720
If it's coming from a cow that's eating GMO grain

504
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.200
and corn, you're not doing your body any justice.

505
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.359
So so what would you say is the key things

506
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:44.599
to differentiate between a genuine healthy option and those that

507
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:49.359
are just marketed like they are but they're not really.

508
00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:52.440
Again, it has to be you've got to know what

509
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.119
the ingredients are. Yeah, does it no matter what the

510
00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:59.519
package says, You've got to learn, You've gotta you've got

511
00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:03.240
to learn to read an ingredient label because it'll say

512
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:05.799
it's healthy, it'll say everything on there. But until you

513
00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:08.079
turn that thing around and you see what's in there,

514
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:12.400
those ingredients, you're not gonna you know, you're going to

515
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:14.000
pick it up. You're going to think it's healthy and

516
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:18.640
then it's not. So that's that's the key, is learning

517
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:20.119
how to read an ingredient label.

518
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.680
Okay, so I can just feel people going, oh my gosh,

519
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:30.920
So let's take a breath here and let's say let's

520
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:35.880
let's let's take let's do some tips for meal prepping

521
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:39.200
or creating healthy snacks. So you're in the in the

522
00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:41.759
grocery store and you want to create some healthy snacks

523
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:46.640
or do some meal prep. But they're busy and they

524
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:48.640
want to stay on track with their health goals. How

525
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:51.000
what are you going to tell them? If they're busy

526
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:54.960
people but they're really trying to stick to their health goals,

527
00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:59.039
how can they create those snacks? Well?

528
00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:01.359
First, well, first things first is you have to know

529
00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:04.599
which snacks and which things are healthy. So I always

530
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.440
make like my homemade If I want something sweet, i'd

531
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.759
make my own homemade granola. It's you know, I hate

532
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:14.599
to say it, but when it comes to eating healthy.

533
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:19.039
It's not a quick fix. So you know, many times

534
00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:22.279
at night, you know, it really isn't it. It's there

535
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:28.599
is no magic thing to tell people how to meal now,

536
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:32.200
it just isn't it is. It's when you want to

537
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:35.200
eat healthy, you have to basically cook everything. I mean,

538
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.960
it's it is what it is, what it is. And

539
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:42.079
you know, tell people throw the microwave out because microwaves

540
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.839
are horrible, and so you know, we're told that those

541
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:48.440
are so fantastic. Well, if you put your your vegetables

542
00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:52.759
in the microwave, guess what, all the nutrients are gone. No.

543
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:58.319
Boy. So my biggest thing that I have found has

544
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:03.400
been batch cooking, so liketday and Sunday, trying to do

545
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:06.640
as much prep for the week as possible. That hasn't

546
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:10.480
all work, but sometimes that sometimes that's been a good

547
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:11.319
strategy for me.

548
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.240
Right, some people do. They'll take a Sunday and they'll

549
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:19.359
go grocery shopping. They'll meal prep for exactly and that's

550
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:23.160
I mean, that's fantastic. I you know, I'm the per

551
00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:26.400
type of person that I don't like leftovers, so I

552
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.720
cook even if even when I cook, I do I

553
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.079
cook for people every day. I still come home and

554
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:36.599
make myself dinner just to hear people ask me that

555
00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:40.839
all the time. They're like, so when you're done with work,

556
00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:45.559
do you come home and make dinner? I say yes, right, well.

557
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:49.720
I mean I know, I absolutely know that some that

558
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:55.359
people can struggle with cooking at home because of time constraints.

559
00:33:55.480 --> 00:34:00.960
And so, what are some time saving tips or shortcuts

560
00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:06.240
do you have that you can recommend for cooking healthier

561
00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:09.679
food at home when you have time constraints? What do

562
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:13.280
you think? Gosh, A lot.

563
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:14.840
Of times if I have a time contrade, I make

564
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:20.159
eggs for dinner. Many times I do. I make eggs

565
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:25.280
for dinner. That's basically it is food is mail prep.

566
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.800
I mean, that's really basically it. You make a bunch

567
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.519
of eggs. You can make eggs salad. You know, there's

568
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.320
just that would probably be the best. That really is

569
00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:39.239
the best, because there's no fast food restaurants that are healthy.

570
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:42.239
You know, you just have to take the time to

571
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.119
do it. We all. I live a very busy life too,

572
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:48.840
but I make the time. It's a priority. It's just

573
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:51.039
like you make time for your children, you have to

574
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:55.400
make time for yourself. That is right, That is a

575
00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:01.480
form of you know, self love and taking care of yourself,

576
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:04.360
just like you you know, go get your hair done

577
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.679
and just go you go get your nails done. Well, okay, well,

578
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:11.719
let's food prep. It's it's it's actually even more important

579
00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:14.840
than that because that's you only have one body, so

580
00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:20.000
you know it has to be a priority. You have

581
00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:20.760
to schedule it.

582
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:24.599
Well, okay, so let's talk a little bit diet stuff.

583
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:28.639
Diet trends, right, So there's a lot of trends out there.

584
00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:34.920
There's keto, there's veganism, there's intermittent fasting. How do you

585
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:39.599
think you've navigate all of that when you're planning a

586
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:42.880
healthy menu for yourself?

587
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:49.840
Well, I would definitely, without a question is get with

588
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:55.599
a nutritionist because everybody is different, every person has different cells,

589
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:58.599
everybody is completely different, and so you have to know

590
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:01.960
what's good for your own body. I mean, there are

591
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:06.440
certain things that we already know. We know that dairy

592
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:10.159
is it causes inflammation in the body, and sugar causes

593
00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:12.920
inflammation in the body. So if you were just to

594
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:18.039
eliminate those two things, it would be tremendous. But it

595
00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:20.719
also depends on how old you are, what you're going

596
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:22.719
through If you're a woman and you're going through metopause,

597
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:24.920
it's going to be very different than a girl that's

598
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:29.039
twenty five years old. It's just different. Were all different.

599
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:32.559
So there is no there is no one diet, there's

600
00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:38.440
no one anything, like I said, And if one diet

601
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:41.280
or one thing like itto works for one person, it

602
00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:42.760
may not work for somebody else.

603
00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:45.760
Right, you know, what has been my challenge has been

604
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:49.199
a husband that's a very meat and potatoes guy, and

605
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:52.000
I'm trying to eat a more plant based diet. What

606
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:56.800
do you say for somebody who has people in their

607
00:36:56.840 --> 00:37:00.800
household that aren't necessarily on the same page them when

608
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:03.320
it comes to eating and what they're eating.

609
00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:06.280
It's tough because I do get that a lot. A

610
00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:11.199
lot of my clients go through that. It's yeah, it's

611
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:15.199
very It's especially difficult when it comes with children because

612
00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:17.239
they'll come home and they'll eat something, but then their

613
00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:19.400
kids don't want to eat that, and then their spouse

614
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:25.119
wants to eat something different, So there's really again it's

615
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:28.960
you know, it's challenging. It really is challenging for people

616
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:32.760
that are very, very busy. Again, the meal prep is

617
00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:36.320
take your family, take your family, grocery shopping with you

618
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:38.760
and figure out what you guys want and get your

619
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:42.519
kids involved with, you know, meal prepping and things like that,

620
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.039
have them teach them what's good for them and what

621
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:50.159
you know, adult, there's not much you can do. I mean,

622
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:51.440
well I didn't.

623
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:55.320
I did take my husband to the grocery store and

624
00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:58.920
we looked at products that he was liking to buy

625
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:01.440
that had high fruitose corn syrup, and so I taught

626
00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:07.880
him about that good because you know, it's really gets

627
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:10.039
back to awareness very very much.

628
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:13.840
So things with hyprotest corn syrup is just so bad

629
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:17.559
for you. It's all chemicals and it raises your blood

630
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:20.159
sugar level. I mean, it's just so many people are

631
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.079
diabetic now almost everyone.

632
00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:22.559
Is pre diabetic.

633
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:26.840
I mean, it's it's it's that's the way it is now. Well,

634
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:30.199
because it is definitely no question it has a lot

635
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:32.199
to do with our diets and what we've been eating

636
00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:35.599
and what we thought was healthy, and it's just it's

637
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:38.719
just people don't know. They just don't know. I mean

638
00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:42.559
I I deal with it every every single day, every day,

639
00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:44.039
every everybody.

640
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:47.039
So you're going into that grocery store, you know you're

641
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:49.840
gonna you know, you're going to hit more of the

642
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:54.719
outer perimeter. Uh and on those inside aisles, you're going

643
00:38:54.840 --> 00:39:00.360
to read labels. What else about going to the grocery store,

644
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:01.480
that's a tactic.

645
00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:09.039
That's a tactic. Well, start with a list. Write yourself

646
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:12.199
a list before you go, because what happens if you

647
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:14.360
don't have a list, You're going to start buying all

648
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:18.480
kinds of crap. So you're going into a store. Like

649
00:39:18.599 --> 00:39:22.280
I was just telling you, I ran into Trader Joe's.

650
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:26.440
And let's talk about you made a comment, you know,

651
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:29.400
because Trader Joe's. Isn't that the be all do all

652
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:30.480
for us?

653
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:35.679
No, that's not so. Trader Joe's is good for a

654
00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:38.480
few things. Trader Joe's is great for their organic produce.

655
00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:41.400
They have a lot of and it's it's usually cheaper,

656
00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:49.280
so it's great for that. They do have pasteurised organic eggs,

657
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:50.440
so it's great for that.

658
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:52.599
I go in.

659
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.480
I actually went in there specifically because next weekend I'm

660
00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:57.480
going to be going out of town for Memora of

661
00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.519
the week, I'm going to Keys and I have friends

662
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:01.480
that have a girl. Well, so I love hot dogs,

663
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.360
but I will not buy regular hot dogs from a

664
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:07.960
regular store. So because they have so many chemicals and nitrates.

665
00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:14.800
So Trader Does makes a grass fed, organic, one hundred

666
00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:18.559
percent beef hot dog, so I ran, Yeah, so I

667
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:26.159
ran in there to get those and and so again,

668
00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:29.480
because I know the Trader Do's is basically a junk

669
00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:33.159
food store. I know that I'm going in specifically for

670
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:40.559
organic fruits and vegetables. They do have grass fed beef,

671
00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:45.559
different things. They do have organic pasteurised chickens, chicken, they

672
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.599
do have that. They even actually have their own bacon

673
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:53.280
that's nitrate free that has no chemicals in it, which

674
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:57.559
I you know, which is which is good. They even

675
00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:03.239
have prejudo that it doesn't have any nitrates either. So

676
00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:09.159
and then what else are they good for? The Yeah,

677
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:11.360
you'd have to when you go into Trader Joe's. Again,

678
00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:12.960
it has to be it's the same thing in a

679
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.119
regular grocery store. It's got to be organic, and it's

680
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:21.639
got to be grass fed or pasture raised. Yeah, everything

681
00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:26.679
everything in the middle In Traders they're prepared meals in

682
00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:30.400
the frozen section. They are extremely delicious, they really are.

683
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:32.280
And it's so much fun to go through there and

684
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:35.719
look through it all this new stuff. But everything is

685
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:42.719
made with everything's made with canola oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil.

686
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:46.800
Even there they're almond milk. I mean there are almond

687
00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:50.199
milk should have three ingredients almonds, water and salt and

688
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:56.199
maybe some real vanilla extract, not gums and vitamins. And

689
00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:59.280
this fat fade and that phosphate and this phosphate and

690
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:05.400
this gard I mean it just yeah, so yeah, And

691
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:11.760
I'm trying to think of what else with Trader Joe's. Yeah,

692
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.400
I mean the uh, the okay, the snack aisle, the

693
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:20.119
chip the chips aisle, there's only one there's out of

694
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:23.039
all the chips and all the snacks and Trader Joe's.

695
00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:26.440
I mean, it's a long aisle and everything looks so

696
00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:30.599
much fun, and it is fun. But the only thing

697
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:32.480
that I will ever buy in Trader Joe' that is

698
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:36.159
a snack is their popcorn, their organic popcorn that's made

699
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with olive oil.

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That's it. So I can't believe it. We are running

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out of time. I like, what one piece of advice

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that you'd give to someone just starting their health journey

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but feeling intimidated by the process, what would you say?

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I would say, take a dread and get interested in

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what's going on in your body. You only have this

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one body, and learn really learn what is nourishing to

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your own body. And yeah, you know that's that's really

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that's the thing. Get interested in your own get interested

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in you be your own health advocate, because how I

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hate to tell you, it's the doctors, the hospitals. I mean,

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it's you know, yes, doctors are there for a reason

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and all that kind of good stuff.

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But you are.

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It's it's you're a number. You're You're just next, you know,

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And you have to be your own health advocate. You've

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got to love yourself enough to take the time and

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the money, you know, to to take care of yourself

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because no one's going to take care of you except

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for yourself. That's that's it.

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So so Allison, we have to wrap up. I cannot

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believe we have it. This is just flown by. So

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we're gonna ask good questions at the grocery store, right

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because because when you when you get your girl, when

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you get your grocery cart, you're going to go smart cart.

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I'm gonna have a smart cart today, and I'm going

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to have a healthy heart because I'm making better choices

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and maybe it's just one or two things that you

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make a change. Right. I think that that's what you

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said was important, that just take one baby step. Yeah,

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just you know, the one baby step. Buy.

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Buy all your fruits and vegetables and all your meats

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and things organic. Start with that. Yeah, start with anything

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that's a fruit and vegetable or anything that comes from

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an animal, make it organic. Just start with that, because

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you wouldn't believe how much better you're going to feel.

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So many people complain they don't have energy or they

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feel horrible. That when you start taking all those chemicals

738
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out of your bike, when you stop eating foods with

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all those chemicals, you sleep better, You have so much

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more energy. I mean, it's unbelievable how much better you

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feel when you don't eat chemicals. Yeah, and I can't

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say enough. Yeah, I just can't say enough great things

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about that.

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Yeah. Well, thank you so much for being here today.

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And again, just a reminder in the bonus down logs

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portion of the website will be Allison's dirty dozen and

747
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her clean fifteen and these important things to really get

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started with. Any closing thought, Allison, Yeah.

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I just wish everybody good luck. I want everybody to

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be healthy. And that's why I name my company Thrive

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as You Age, because I want people to realize they

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don't have to Their body doesn't have to break down

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as they get older. They can thrive as they get older.

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If you put the right fuel and the right things

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into your body, you can live a long, healthy life. Aye,

756
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be happier and healthier. And when you're happier and you're healthier,

757
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guess what, everybody in your life, your family, your friends.

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I mean, it just doesn't get better than that.

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So ask yourself good questions at the grocery store. Yeah,

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thank you so much for joining us today, Allison, and

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thank you so much everyone for joining the Ask Good

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Questions podcast.

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Today's episode is over, but we did ask Good Questions again, didn't.

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You don't miss out as we broadcast live every Wednesday,

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w fourcy dot com. Joined Benita Bellanderson next week for

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more conversations with experts on finances, retirement, behavioral finance issues,

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health and wellness, and more. Until then, remember to ask

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good questions.