Chocolate Spinach Shake :)

My post-workout creation tonight??

12 oz filtered water
1 scoop Sunwarrior Raw Vegan Chocolate Protein Powder
1 small handful of baby spinach
1/2 frozen banana
a generous sprinkle of spirulina, flax seeds, and cinnamon

all blended together for creamy deliciousness in my tummy :)

What's On My Food?

I wanted to share the following website I came across while researching a few things:

http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/

More and more I feel terribly frustrated and angry at the fact that our food supply is loaded with toxins and poisons, making it seem impossible to take anything into our bodies that isn't somehow tainted.  I can't understand why all of these known carcinogens, chemicals and toxins aren't illegal, especially since they are sprayed directly onto the food being grown.  It's no wonder we are as sick as we are and yet, still, people rarely stop to wonder about their food and the crucial part that it plays in our health and our ability to heal naturally.  Instead, we keep right on eating processed, dead and fake food and then fork out hundreds of dollars for drugs and shots and treatments that only treat the symptoms and never the actual problem.

The reason I go off on that little tantrum is because, going back to food being crucial to our health, even the good stuff is bad stuff.  Organic foods have most certainly seen higher demand but I think there needs to be more.  More people to be aware of what's on and in our food so that more people demand that the food grown and sold be safe and organic, free of poisons.  More people need to be aware  of where true health comes from...and it's from, primarily, our food - in its purest and most natural form.

  It is a terrible injustice that fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides are used so abundantly and carelessly and not disclosed to the consumer.  Think about it - if you were perusing the aisles of produce and decided to pick up an apple, would you still buy it if there were an 'ingredients' list of everything used on this apple and the effect it would have on your health?   Gone would be the bad food because instantly the demand for organic produce would take it's place in record speed, and then organic produce wouldn't be the more costly choice.

Take a look at what is called the Dirty Dozen.  Does it make you want to run out and buy a bushel of apples or bunches of spinach??  Only if it's organic.

Peruse through What's On My Food site, click on a few of your favorite and most commonly used foods and learn just what it is your consuming when you eat that apple, celery stick or strawberry.  Click on the Get Involved tab and do what you can to help spread the word and, therefore, the demand for clean, organic foods in their natural state.  I just did.

Plie Squat

Plie Squat:  Can be done without a weight for beginners.  With toes pointed diagonally outward, wider than shoulder-width, lower yourself into a deep squat until your thighs are parallel to the ground.  Keep your back straight and shoulders back and down.  Knees should not go past your toes on the 'down' position.  Exhale and come back to starting position.  Repeat.  For extra burn, at the end of your set hold your last squat in the down position for 20 seconds.

Vaccine What??

I am opposed to vaccines.  Not new news.  And I am greatly opposed to this ludacris idea of putting candy in the form of vaccine shots.  What brilliant mind thought this up?   "Hey kids!  Medicine, drugs, and vaccines are like eating candy!"   This 'flavored liquid candy in a safe plastic injection' is just plain wrong.  

First of all - the 'flavored liquid candy' is just sugar!  Bad, bad, bad sugar.  I couldn't find anything that posted the ingredients list but most likely you would see the dangerous High-Fructose Corn Syrup along with equally dangerous dyes and coloring.  This is not something fit for consumption for our kids!

Second of all - I have felt very strongly lately that with the rise of parents becoming more informed of the dangers of vaccines - and yes, I would even say uselessness of them, - the vaccine companies are scrambling to dig their greedy little claws into unsuspecting parents even further.  Have you noticed all the vaccine campaign ads popping up like crazy on our televisions and billboards?  They are there to scare you.  Placing fear into people who don't know any better will assure that they get their kids vaccinated for anything and everything.  Is this candy just another tactic for conforming everyone to the idea that vaccines are safe, harmless and even wonderful?  

Now I know that there are people out there who have, sadly, been affected by something that "could have been prevented by a vaccine".  There are an even greater number of people out there who have been affected by the vaccine itself.   However, the more I read and research, the more I am convinced that it all comes down to our diet of cooked, dead, devoid-of-life food.  Even as mothers, the food we eat that we pass onto our infants through breastmilk greatly affects our children's their immune systems and their ability to fight off infection and illness.  Another reason why I urge you to consider eating as much  of a raw food diet as possible, void of as much animals as possible.  The proof is out there if you're willing to find it.

I admit it can be scary.  As a new mom, I went into my traditional doctor's office for a checkup and refused the vaccinations.  I was immediately questioned why and felt judgement from this doctor.  For a tiny second, listening to her and all the reasons why she feels babies should be vaccinated, I admit I wavered and questioned my own beliefs.  But I will not vaccinate my baby without feeling 100% sure about it and that is something I never will be.  And I'm glad I didn't.  I am still convinced that vaccines are useless and cause more sickness and deaths and only serve to make the drug companies richer.