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Junk food leaves an indelible mark on your appearance and health status. The Halloween candy you hid from the kids has been gone for at least 2 months. The pies and buttered mashed potatoes are no longer a regular staple at your dinner table. The assorted chocolates, candy canes and tasty beverages are just a fond memory. The bubbles from the New Year’s champagne are something you are already dreaming about for next year.

Why do they have to be gone so soon? Oh, but wait! They are not permanently gone. As we look in the mirror we see where their new home is.

Junk Food, the Tangible Results

Uh oh! Now what? Many people find themselves a couple to a few pounds heavier after the first of the year. It’s tempting to go on a crash diet or take a quick fix pill to help shed those pesky pounds. While you may lose weight at first, it’s likely those homesick pounds will find their way back to you like a needy relative. They may even bring a few friends! The best diet is no diet at all. At least not in the sense of the word we have grown accustomed to hearing.

Your eating habits define who you are. You eat junk food, you feel and look like junk. You eat mood altering foods and you are moody. When you drink high sugar, high caffeine drinks, your energy will rise and fall. This sounds like a crazy way to fuel our marvelous bodies, but for so many; this has become a normal way of life. After eating like this, the next step is often going on medication for diabetes or high blood pressure. These are the tangible results of junk food.

Finding the Fix

Finding the fix means thinking healthy and taking action. You have control! When you eat the way nature intended us to with vibrant fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds fish, healthy proteins and plenty of fresh water; you become vibrant and healthy. Your body naturally stops craving too much food because it is satisfied from the fiber and correct balance of proteins, carbs and healthy fats. Instead of envying the people who look like they are healthy and full of life, you will be that person! But wait! What about when the holiday season comes back around? Consider the 80/20 rule. Eat right 80% of the time so if you slip up 20% of the time, you can use your new found energy to work off the extra calories. Start this minute with positive thoughts and a determination to improve your life!

Nutrition in pregnancy-sowing the seeds that will produce a strong offspring. It is the time to eat smart. Pregnancy may look like the off-season when it comes to diet. The time a fetus spends in the womb leaves an indelible mark on future health. It is the starting line for future endurance, vitality, and immune function.

Poor Diet Risks

It now has been shown that a poor diet during pregnancy increases the risk of many age related conditions. In other words offsprings pay later for what a mother doesn’t do during gestation. Diet during the critical period of development in the womb shapes the health of the fetus by influencing how the cells in the body age.

It is an established fact that environmental factors interact with genes, affecting how they express themselves. The mother’s diet is an environmental factor that affects and modifies the DNA that regulate how a gene is produced.

Dedicating your life to child rearing begins in pregnancy. The whole story of your child’s development begins in utero. The research, by scientist from the University of Cambridge shows an increased risk of type 2 diabetes to children born to mothers who consumed an unhealthy diet during pregnancy.

“What is most exciting about these findings is that we are now starting to really understand how nutrition during the first nine months of life spent in the womb shape our long term health by influencing how the cells in our body age,” stated Dr Susan Ozanne, the senior author on the paper and British Heart Foundation Senior Fellow from the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge

Child Support Begins in the Womb

Successful child rearing means sustainable good health into adulthood. There isn’t another go-around that will represent the time spend in the womb. The overall health of ones offspring starts with conception. You need to support your child before he or she arrives. The adage mother knows best must start at conception.

This is the time to upgrade your diet. Avoiding the chemicals in a diet made up of carbonated drinks, processed foods and drinks, and even manufactured vitamins is important. What is called safe food additives and colors are indicated in neurodegenerative diseases, accelerated aging, and hyperactivity in children.

Sodium benzoate can damage, and shut down parts on DNA in a cell’s mitochondria. Sodium benzoate is in sodas, lemonade mixes, salad dressing, condiments, and pickles. along with other additives. The consumption of artificial food colors and preservatives can’t be good for the life blossoming inside of you.

When you realize that sodium benzoate is used as an anti-corrosive, automotive engine antifreeze coolant, plastic, and in photographic processing it takes on a new dimension. What belongs in the cleaning industry doesn’t belong in the womb

 Food is The Future

When you eat for two it is a multigenerational endeavor. Ancient Wisdom still stands whole food is what makes a healthy baby materialize. Maternal instinct isn’t enough anymore, knowledge is power. All formulas and food are for two now. The health of your unborn child takes precedence over everything else. Pregnancy is a time to invest in your child’s future, by consuming a diet full of fruits, vegetables, and good quality protein.

Blueberries-thinking in color means thinking in health. There is something mysterious when selecting food from the plant kingdom. Nature doesn’t put a printed label with nutritional information on its products. The differences in nature’s bounty and branded food is in value. Color is important when it comes to natural branding. The pigmentation is what lets you know the nutritional value of a given fruit. Dark vibrant colors is a sign of nutrient dense vegetables and fruits.

The changing hue of nutrition is what has launched a processed food industry. Bland colors reside on the selves of supermarkets. The changing color of our food supply went from deep plums, vibrant blues, bright greens, vivid oranges, golden yellows, soft greens and shades of red to chalky white and beige. Natural colors are connected to foods that rejuvenate and revitalize.

Decorate food colors aren’t anti-aging; they add a toxic elements to our food supply. Going back to the blueberry, you can see and feel the benefits. The difference in color between bleached and unbleached flour is small. However the difference between colors for fruits and vegetables are marked. The bright colors mean stored nutrients for the consumer.

Nourishment is contained in the attractive and colorful plant food. They contain a life force that can’t be attained in processed food. The life force has been processed out of the manufactured food substitutes. Blueberries picked from the bush are with health enhancing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and alkalizing water content. Blueberries benefits are: cardiovascular health, losing belly fat, cancer prevention and cancer regression, fiber requirements, and needed antioxidants.