"IT'S NOT COMPLICATEDEATING HEALTHY, WHAT to EAT"

Chapter 1

How did we get into this mess in the first place?

"Modern medical care usually never addresses an�oxidants, nutrients, environmental toxins, gut health, and chronic stress. The Mainstream medicine approach is one that is mechanical and not conducive to real healing. They can save lives at �mes, but they help people survive, not thrive. Just surviving is a struggle. It can mean just ge�ng by where thriving is doing well with even a chronic condi�on." Blanch

Scharf, Func�onal Nutri�onist

You know you don't feel par�cularly good and realize something is wrong, but you are confused by the different approaches to health and ea�ng. You have no idea who to believe.

If you are like me, you wake up with a dozen emails about how to eat healthy or lose weight. And they all suggest different approaches. Many are depriva�on diets. Some want you to count calories. Some want you to count points. Some are "the answer" you have been looking for But you have been down that road before and know those usually don't work. So, you have no idea who to believe or what it is that you should do.

You feel like "something isn't right" with what's happening to the health of Americans when the more we spend on healthcare, the worse outcomes we get. You read that 11 of the 12 leading causes of American death are largely caused by food. You ask yourself, "Can I be in jeopardy with what I am ea�ng? What do I do? What do I eat?"

In the beginning, it was also very confusing to me. But frankly, the more I have researched, it's not complicated, and this is what I want to share in this eBook. THEY (Who are they?) want you to be confused, and if you stay confused, their marke�ng works beter, and you con�nue to have health issues, which is good business for all of them.

Who are THEY? THEY are Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Media, Big Healthcare, Big Universi�es, Big Medical. They are all making big money off our confusion and purposely crea�ng gasligh�ng to keep us confused. If we win at health, they lose profits. Our not understanding what to eat is very profitable for them. If we are confused, we con�nue to eat poorly and have unhealthy habits, and they con�nue to make billions off all of us.

I want to explain what I have learned about food and why our government ISN'T protec�ng us, and then I want to share why it's not complicated to eat to be healthy. It's actually very simple. I want to cut through the fog.

70% of the calories we eat as a popula�on currently come from ultra-processed nutrientdepleted products known to damage our brains and bodies.

"Processed foods are foods that have been altered in some way from their natural state. They often contain added preservatives, sweeteners, artificial flavors, and other additives. Many of the ingredients are fake, with no food value. They have been created to look, taste, smell, and sound like real food but are totally contrived by food engineers. Examples of processed foods include packaged snacks, cereals, fast food, and convenience foods.

Studies have shown that consuming a diet high in processed foods can have a negative effect on our health. Here are some ways that processed foods can impact our health:

1. Increased risk of chronic diseases: Processed foods are often high in calories, sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats, increasing the risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, Type II diabetes, and heart disease.

2. Nutrient deficiencies: Processed foods are often low in nutrients such as fiber, real vitamins, and minerals. Consuming a diet high in processed foods can lead to nutrient deficiencies, which can negatively impact our health and well-being. This impacts how our bodies operate and function, from our cells to our brains to all our organs.

3. Increased inflammation: Many processed foods contain ingredients that can increase inflammation in the body. Sugar, fat, salt, toxic chemicals, synthetic ingredients and vitamins, food colorings, and food additives all cause inflammation. Chronic inflammation has been linked to various health problems, including arthritis, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, liver disease, Type II Diabetes, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease, and more.

4. Chronic inflammation= dis-ease. Cure the inflammation and heal your body.

5. Disruption of the gut microbiome: Processed foods can disrupt the balance of bacteria in our gut microbiome, which can negatively impact our immune system, digestive health, and overall well-being. Disruption of your gut biome causes inflammation, which again increases Chronic Diseases.

Overall, while processed foods may be convenient and appear affordable, they can negatively affect our health and, ultimately, are very costly to our health and economy

Eating a diet that is high in whole, unprocessed foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, omega-3 fats, and lean proteins can help promote optimal health and well-being. I will explain this fully in simple steps in Chapter 3.

"Our sick-care system is unsustainable and must eventually change. I think this change – from a reac�onary approach where money is spent on 'band-aid' interven�ons a�er people are sick –to a root-cause approach {real whole food} and habits to build a fundamentally healthy body to prevent/reverse disease, will happen sooner than people think. It will have trillions of dollars in ramifica�ons, in addi�on to unleashing an astounding amount of pent-up human capital that is currently s�fled by chronic illness that now spans the life�me." Calley Means i - Harvard MBA, Big Food insider, ex-lobbyist, whistleblower.

"It is said that the doctor of the future will be the pa�ent. All we need to do is take control of our health ourselves and adopt all the healthy habits." Blanche L. Scharf, Func�onal Nutri�onist

Over the years, how to eat has simplified my lifestyle rou�ne and my thinking. Now as a health coach, I don't care which dietary approach (vegetarian, vegan, Paleo, Pegan, or a combina�on of them) a client chooses to eat. As long as 70% of what they eat is whole foods of all the colors of the rainbow. I encourage as much of it to be organic as possible. And a client needs to include high-quality protein and omega-3 fats. If a client eats 70% of their food as whole organic plant food, it doesn't mater to me which ea�ng lifestyle my client chooses to follow, with a few rules.

For plant foods, I have educated myself on how many toxins are used in growing plant food. I started with using and avoiding things on the Dirty Dozen list but have learned over �me that that is only a scratch on the surface. I now try to buy everything organic if possible. I also look up all my plant foods on the "What's on My Food?" site, and I explain all of that in an ar�cle in my magazine, Feels Good to Feel Good.

So, the ques�on becomes, why do we all think that how to eat is so complicated?

I think four reasons.

First - As I discuss in my magazine ar�cle, not eat the SAD (Standard American Diet) and how all big business is purposefully gasligh�ng us

As I men�oned in my opening, when we are sick, we are big money to: Big Food, Big Ag, Big Pharma, Big Chemical, Big Healthcare, Big Medical, Big Universi�es, and even Big Media which makes over 50% of its income from all the businesses men�oned above This has also directly impacted policy and our lawmakers. And it's working. 73% of what America eats is processed, low-nutrient foods. ii The more Big Business gets to confuse us, the more they manipulate us. Confusing us about what to eat is good for all of them, so they feed the decep�on. They have taken what should be a simple approach and made it as confusing as possible. All the big corps men�oned are in on it and making big money Marke�ng is just one of their tools for confusion. And they market the heck out of the standard American diet processed foods to ensure they are front and forward in our minds and our diets.

Second - Our government supports lousy ea�ng and poorquality foods with our tax dollars. "In 1992, the government came out with the Food Pyramid. At the base of the pyramid were carbohydrates, par�cularly refined carbohydrates like bread, pasta, rice, and cereals, of which we were told to eat 6 to 11 servings a day! This was obviously detrimental to our health." Dr. Mark Hyman. Even most nutri�onists will try incorpora�ng processed empty calories into your ea�ng plan. They were taught and adopted flawed food pyramid guidelines from 1977 and, even worse, from 1992. These guidelines limit healthy omega-3 fats, encourage refined carbohydrates like bread, pasta, rice, and cereals, and recommend ea�ng 6 to 11 servings of refined carbohydrates daily. There is litle or no fiber in these foods. There is no conversa�on in any of these guidelines about ea�ng organic. In what universe does it make sense to eat poison?

These guidelines were based on flawed, skewed studies paid for by the sugar industry, Big Food, or Big Ag at large universi�es. (Who are largely funded by the same big corps.) These carbohydrates break down into sugar and get stored in your body as fat. As a result, as a popula�on in the U.S., we eat 152 pounds of sugar a year each and get another 1465 pounds of flour that also breaks down into sugar.

These refined carbs create inflamma�on. Inflamma�on equals chronic disease that I listed above and obesity, demen�a, and depression. Big industry jumped on these flawed guidelines and made products around them, marketed in favor of them, and lobbied for them to become part of our policy. Most health professionals touted them because the studies appeared to be valid. As a result, the American public accepted them as true. Everyone eats this way. Why wouldn't our government protect us? We believe that this way of ea�ng must be correct, and we joined all our friends in ea�ng all this processed, empty, unhealthy food.

Part of the logic of this theory was that these foods had fewer calories than fat.

"The standard American diet has triggered pandemics of non-communicable disease by overloading us with excess calories and causing chronic inflammation, dysbiosis, glycemic overload, and multiple micro-and phytonutrient depletion. This is the key reason to ditch the processed food diet and incorporate a whole food diet."

Blanche L Scharf, Functional Nutritionist

In addition, according to Dr. Mark Hyman, "Processed foods are not only high in calories, but they are also high in sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats If you eat fast food, grains, desserts, packaged snacks, potato chips, muffins, or conven�onally raised meat, or buy almost anything cooked in oil at a cafeteria, diner, or restaurant, then you're almost certainly consuming lots of vegetable or seed oils rich in omega-6 faty acids and GMO toxins without even knowing it. This includes vegetable oils, corn oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, cotonseed, and safflower oil. This stuff is toxic and inflammatory and loaded with gene�cally modified organisms, which means they are also loaded with toxins. Stay Away"

This was made worse in the 2010 recommenda�on for the new "My Plate," which replaced the food pyramid but s�ll weighted heavily toward high carbohydrates as the founda�on of the food-ea�ng plan. It was s�ll making us sick and unhealthy and obese.

To further exasperate the food pyramid recommenda�ons, the 2023 food pyramid came out with the statement that Lucky Charms are healthier than steak. In what alterna�ve universe? An MD who is fully on the payroll of the manufacturer of Lucky Charms stands by her finding and says she was not influenced by her paycheck at all. Sure thing. I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

To be clear, when discussing ea�ng the rainbow, I am talking about ea�ng real whole foods I am NOT talking about ea�ng Lucky Charms Lucky Charms are loaded with sugar, GMO omega-6 oils, and salt.

This cereal also has synthetic ingredients, artificial food dyes that are harmful to the human body, artificial flavors, and synthetic minerals and vitamins that most likely cannot be utilized by the human body.

This is an example of industry gaslighting. The study was sponsored by the NHI (National Health Institute) Unfortunately, it also encourages children to drink orange juice which is also loaded with sugar. (Another 30 grams of sugar, which is another 8 teaspoons of sugar per 8 ounces. iii One of my doctors described orange juice to me as rocket fuel when I became diabetic and recommended that I avoid it at all costs.)

From Calley Means Newsletter (the Harvard MBA and former industry insider now whistleblower on the tactics to gaslight the population into eating unhealthy, poor quality foods that I quoted above.)

"I want to speak facts. And the facts are that this prominent nutrition researcher made the following points to me in our conversation on a recent podcast. (Cheryl's comment- Understand that the researcher's point of view is all bull.) Calley said:

1. "Lucky Charms and Cheerios are highly nutritious - and it is correct to rate these highly processed grains at the same level as whole grains like quinoa.

2. "Orange juice (24-30g of sugar per 8oz serving) should be encouraged daily for children. (Another 6-8 teaspoons of sugar per serving.)

3. "It was classist to expect low-income people to eat whole food. That the best we could do is 'expect people to eat processed food that is healthier. ' (I address this in my article about children in my magazine. Please read that article as well.)

4. "Despite the study receiving funding from processed food companies, these financial conflicts did not impact the results. Chocolate almond milk (which Danone, a chief funder of the study, makes) is the highest-rated dairy product (above Greek yogurt). He also said that the fact that he receives significant personal payments from food and pharmaceutical companies, does not slant his research. He said food companies did not expect anything in return for the millions of dollars they've given to his research."

This guy might believe what he is saying, but what a pack of crock. And you wonder why you are confused? This is just one example of the pack of lies you have been fed about food throughout your lifetime.

Hospitals serve it, and restaurants buy it in baggies and reheat it. The American popula�on buys it in boxes and or frozen. They also pick it up in takeout counters in their grocers. It's fast and convenient and takes litle thought to prepare this food or to go out and eat. It tastes good even though it is not real and has litle nutri�onal value, and it has been manipulated by food engineers to taste good. It has also been engineered to "sound" good. Since, as a society, we are all so busy "doing," this is an easy way to eat quickly and con�nue "doing" whatever it is we are "doing" in our lives.

And even beter, it's cheap (or is it?) As a country, we spend less on food than other industrialized countries. And we all seem to think ea�ng the SAD is a huge benefit.

The ques�on needs to be not why healthy food is so expensive but why processed and fast foods are so cheap.

And then the million-dollar ques�on is, is it truly cheap? What are the real costs, and what are the long-term costs of ea�ng this diet? As I con�nued to research, I discovered all this fake food is highly subsidized with taxpayer dollars, so it is not cheap. Instead, it just appears to be cheap at the point of purchase, and even worse, down the line, the horrific impact on our health makes the costs unbearable.

Third - All of us who are trying to avoid processed foods are figh�ng over the correct way to eat. This has exasperated the confusion.

The Vegetarians, Vegans, Paleo, Pegans, and Keto followers all think their way is the only way, so we compete to convince the rest that our way is the only way.

All of those ea�ng approaches have much more in common than in conflict, so if we could all get together to convince Americans to eat real whole organic foods of all the colors of the rainbow, at least some of the confusion would clear.

Fourth - We are an overweight popula�on. Obesity is big business. A 2019 study determined that 93% of American adults are unhealthy. In other words, "A recent report (2022 study) claimed that only 6.8% of American adults have op�mal metabolic health." iv This study was based on U.S. cardiometabolic health. v "It's worth no�ng that this data precedes the COVID-19 pandemic, which has contributed to an increase in obesity, and presumably other measures, as well." vi

They are winning this game.

There are con�nually new weight loss programs and New York Times bestsellers coming out on the market to help us all lose weight. None of them seem to work long-term, but we keep buying them, implemen�ng them with a short-term mindset, and failing and ge�ng fater. Each one is touted as the end-all solu�on. Each has a different approach which has confused the heck out of us, and yet, botom line, none of them are permanent solu�ons. All these diets feed the dream (I had a dream to become thin), but they know it is not atainable using their methods In fact, at some level, each of us knows that since we do not start any of these diets with a long-term mindset. We begin them with a short-term solu�on mindset. In fact, it is built right into their program. And all of this is also feeding big business and making enormous profits None of them want us to win They would lose money if we won at weight loss and eventually go out of business.

(And all of this is feeding Big Pharma, who keeps crea�ng pills for all our ills so that we find it necessary to pop all these pills since our health as a na�on is rapidly declining.)

Calley Means con�nues, "When I consulted for food companies early in my career, we funded nutrition researchers for the sole purpose of creating more studies that would confuse Americans. I am sure the researchers are well-inten�oned and dedicated, but each new nutri�on study serves the purpose of further confusion."

This has now also extended to our children, who are now overweight and obese.

"For children and adolescents aged 2-19 years in 2017-2020: vii

• "The prevalence of obesity was 19.7% and affected about 14.7 million children and adolescents.

• "Obesity prevalence was 12.7% among 2- to 5year-olds, 20.7% among 6- to 11-year-olds, and 22.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds. Childhood obesity is also more common among certain populations.

• "Obesity prevalence was 26.2% among Hispanic children, 24.8% among non-Hispanic Black children, 16.6% among non-Hispanic White children, and 9.0% among nonHispanic Asian children.

• "Obesity-related conditions include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Type II Diabetes, breathing problems such as asthma and sleep apnea, and joint problems." viii

Why are so many kids overweight? Mind you, the statistics above are for obese children. The % of overweight children in the U.S. is estimated at 33%. ix

"Causes of obesity in children include unhealthy food choices, lack of physical activity, and family eating habits This rise in the number of overweight children is disturbing because it causes health problems and can lead to social problems." x Obesity in children causes ADHD, learning disabilities, poor strategic thinking, low energy, behavioral problems, mood swings, and many other undesirable attitudes and behaviors. One of the most frightening results of all of that is impacting our children's LEARNING ability, so we are dumbing down our workforce of the future and not giving our children a fair break for their future. In addition, 54% of our children have a chronic illness 54%.

Obesity is a lifestyle disease. If you have an overweight child, read my ar�cle on children's health in my Magazine Feels Good to Feel Good- May 2023. And read my chapters in this book and in my magazine about what not to eat, and then what to eat, yourself, which gives a long explana�on and cuts through all the confusion.

The botom line is that you, the adult and parent, must follow the guidelines to eat real whole foods of all the rainbow colors. Children are litle pitchers. They will duplicate what they learn and observe from you.

A child with one obese parent has a 50 percent chance of being obese. When both parents are obese, their children have an 80 percent chance of obesity. xi And as depressing as these sta�s�cs are, remember that the opposite is true. If you, the parent, lead a healthy lifestyle, shop, cook, and eat meals with your child, encourage healthy habits, and discuss why they are so important: if you only have healthy food available to the child in the home, you have a greater chance of raising a healthy child.

The result of all this gaslighting is that chronic disease will account for over 50 million deaths and cost the global economy $47 trillion by 2030. xii That's why we must change our perspective on food. And we need to do this starting today. If we don't change, the cost to our society is staggering.

"The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease es�mates that by 2030, 83 million people in the U.S. will have three or more chronic health condi�ons, up from 31 million in 2015." xiii

We also have a growing issue with depression and suicide in our youth. Suicide is now the #2 cause of death amongst our youth. I did a series of podcasts on depression that I recommend you all listen to. xiv One key solu�on to depression is also food related. If we feed our children real food and less sugar and eliminate the toxins in the food, they will have more balanced hormones, fewer insulin issues, and happier moods. There is an en�rely new field called Nutri�onal Psychiatry in the Func�onal World. It is not medica�on-based but food treatment based.

There must be a beter way, and there is. Func�onal nutri�onists and Func�onal prac��oners know differently. They know that the key is real whole organic foods. And as a health coach who has returned to wellness from Chronic autoimmune disease/ fibromyalgia, I am a living example of a beter way and the solu�on.

"Most diseases are reversible with healthy nutri�on," Dr. Michael Gregor, author of How Not to Die. He con�nues, "Most doctors eat the same food that is killing all the rest of us today. "

M.D. s get less than ½ a day of nutri�on in medical school, if any. And even if they find studies that support the theory that real food heals, it is mucked up with tons of false studies paid for by big business to big universi�es that depend on big industry funding by doctors who are on the payroll of the companies who are doing the studies that are concluding differently The chief source of new informa�on shared with M.D.s is from their pharmaceu�cal rep, who also knows nothing about nutri�on.

Some studies show that ea�ng the organic rainbow and ge�ng a diverse group of all the phytonutrients available in these plant foods have healing proper�es. S�ll, these studies are buried in the mass of studies done in the industry that are contrived to confuse us.

From Dr. Michael Gregor"Just like with cigaretes, studies had shown years before it became commonly accepted that cigaretes caused cancer. " xv 16 million people died before society caught up with science. xvi The number overea�ng poor quality food will massively exceed that. 82% of our popula�on is currently metabolically unfit, according to two studies published in 2022, xvii so we can't wait for society to catch up with science. We need to take a hard look at what we are ea�ng now. And by doing this, we can reverse many of the diseases we are currently living with.

FINALLY, I THINK WE HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO HAVE THE WRONG MINDSET ABOUT FOOD. We are barraged that thin is beau�ful and that we must be at a perfect weight.

Certainly, it IS important to be at a healthy weight, but our mindset is all wrong. We must focus on ea�ng for our health today and in the future. We should not be limi�ng calories to "lose weight" as the end all of all end all's. Coun�ng calories to stay within certain perimeters misses the point. We should be eating for nutrition, to fuel our cells with optimal nutrition, and to rebuild our cells, which happens continually. We should eat in a way that supports our body because food is information. It's our code for health.

When we focus on what is actually important about what we eat, it limits our possibilities away from empty calories. It limits our desire to eat processed foods. It focuses on buying and eating foods of all the colors of the rainbow from a farm as close to us as possible so that this food offers us the maximum nutrients available to our bodies. Within a very short period of time, we choose foods that feed our bodies code to function optimally. This becomes non-negotiable. We don't even have any desire to walk down the inner aisles of the grocer or buy items with massive amounts of synthetic ingredients. All of those chemicals become a turnoff. And we begin to choose to cook so that we CAN control what we feed our bodies to be high-quality, nutritious foods.

Once we have a non-negotiable mindset, we also find solutions to our food dilemmas. For example, it is no longer difficult to vet a restaurant that makes quality food we would choose to put into our bodies. Likewise, we come up with solutions when we are eating out with others so that we don't dictate what they eat but don't allow them to dictate to us.

We need to develop non-negotiable solutions for lower-income families so that they, too, can benefit from all of the wondrous things that real chemicalfree food offers to their bodies and their children without compromising health. We find ways to begin urban gardens in which the entire community can participate. We begin to grow food in all the available spaces, like the land that runs along sidewalks and curbs. We still have food stamps, but we educate and use those dollars for healthy food and stop subsidizing those dollars to buy soda pop, which is refined sugar, gut rot, and processed foods of empty chemicals.

We find solutions for the sugar bomb parties our children are invited to, as I discussed in my magazine article on children and their health

We form communities with like-minded other parents and support our children with healthier food from the larger village. (It takes a village to raise a child, and we need to seek our community out and foster it.)

What we subsidize for school food programs also becomes non-negotiable. We fund school gardens so that children grow the foods they eat in school lunch programs. It becomes nonnegotiable that we fund healthy food for healthy children and take power away from the lobbyists that want our children to be sick and on pills for the rest of their lives. We would not consider accepting processed food studies that insist this needs to be in our school lunch programs and that these foods are optimal for our children's health. And we toss out the notion that children don't want to eat healthy food, as I heard one legislator say on the news. They have to be "carefully taught" i Calley Means is a Stanford grad, Harvard MBA that worked for Big Food and for Big Lobbying corpora�ons who became a whistleblower once he got a big inside view of how we are being manipulated. What changed for Calley? Three things. His mother died of pancrea�c cancer. He became a father and wants a beter life for his son, and his sister, who was a conven�onal allopathic MD came to the same conclusion at the same �me and now prac�ces Func�onal Medicine, which is root cause medicine. He is a very outspoken contributor to the conversa�on on American health, with an insider’s eye. ii htps://foodtank.com/news/2022/11/database-indicates-u-s-food-supply-is-73-percent-ultra-processed/ iii htps://www.heartandstroke.ca/ar�cles/the-truth-about-juice iv Trends and Dispari�es in Cardiometabolic Health Among U.S. Adults, 1999-2018 - PubMed (nih.gov) v htps://revitalizemetabolichealth.com/93-of-american-adults-are-unhealthy-a-deeper-dive/ vi htps://revitalizemetabolichealth.com/93-of-american-adults-are-unhealthy-a-deeper-dive/ vii htps://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html viii htps://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html ix htps://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-preven�on-source/obesity-trends-original/global-obesity-trends-inchildren/ x htps://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9467-obesity-in-children xi htps://www.ucs�enioffchildrens.org/condi�ons/obesity xii Dr. Mark Hyman Facebook Post 10/23/22 xiii htps://www.statnews.com/2018/05/31/chronic-diseases-taxing-health-care-economy/ xiiihtps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijJiQwsLJVo&list=PLzwokelf3LSZP7ufLKwl-gMZuhDf-knfE&index=4 There are 4 all together and they discuss different things important to the topic xv htps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YOe_ O4jk xvi htps://nutri�onfacts.org/2019/04/04/the-disconnect-between-science-and-policy/ xvii htps://www.unc.edu/posts/2018/11/28/only-12-percent-of-american-adults-are-metabolically-healthycarolina-study-finds/ htps://www.ksl.com/ar�cle/50332891/88-of-americans-are-metabolically-unhealthy-says-utah-scien�st-hereswhat-to-do-about-it xviii Howard Lyman coined the phrase. He was a rancher who spoke out against factory farming. His phrase indicated that we have to stand firm in our own convic�ons and then find others to join us for change.

We involve our children in how, what, and why we eat what we do so that they grow up with a healthy mindset about food and healthy food habits. As a parent, you want YOUR healthy habits to take up rent-free space in your child's mind.

When we have a non-negotiable mindset about healthy food, everything changes, and we live outside the mainstream but are happier and healthier than our compatriots. We stand firm until the rest of society moves towards us, not the other way around. We don't dictate to other parents but stand firm in what we want for our children and their future health.

Food is not the only element for great health. I have 20 pillars together listed in my magazine. But eating real whole organic foods of all the colors of the rainbow is the foundation of long-term health, and it needs to become a non-negotiable for every family in America.

As each of us becomes an army of one xviiiand then joins together with others, we start to influence where our tax dollars are spent so that it is non-negotiable that they are spent on healthy food and not unhealthy foods or on unhealthy programs, both factory farmed and in factory processed food.

Education and easier availability of healthy foods create a healthier future.

MY MISSION, AND MY PURPOSE FOR WRITING THIS EBOOK AND MAKING IT AVAILABLE FOR FREE, IS THAT I WANT TO CHANGE THE WAY AMERICA EATS.

It's time for YOU to take back your power. Shop and buy organic whole foods of all the colors of the rainbow. Cook and control what you feed your body (and your children's). Learn to eat for your future health.

Time to move your well-being to the front and center spotlight.

What to eat is not complicated.

So, let's get into the specifics of what I am talking about. I want to start with what NOT to eat and then go more into depth about what TO EAT, all in the simplest of terms. And the more I eat this way and research and grow, looking for my own puzzle pieces, the clearer and simpler this has all become, so I now want to simplify it for you.