{"id":13985,"date":"2011-08-08T10:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2011-08-08T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:05:29","slug":"food-can-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/08\/food-can-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Can Heal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you have read my food philosophy section,<\/a> then you know that I believe in eating whole real foods. Eliminate or reduce processed foods as much as possible.<\/p>\n

I believe that a lot of aliments that people suffer from these days (cancer, ADHD in kids, high blood pressure, you name it), are a direct result of the high processed food lifestyle people have been living for quite some time.<\/p>\n

When convience foods were first introduced, home makers around the world rejoiced. \u00a0I know for a fact my grandmother was pleased as punch over sliced bread and canned soups. \u00a0Now she didn’t have to worry about getting up at dawn every morning to make bread for the day.<\/p>\n

However, we have to admit that over the years the quality of those foods has degraded and rapidly! \u00a0There is junk in our foods that our body doesn’t recognize or need.<\/p>\n

Wood Pulp<\/a><\/p>\n

Cottonseed Oil (Google that, bad stuff)<\/p>\n

HFCS<\/abbr><\/a> (a list of posts on this topic at Fooducate)<\/p>\n

Just to give you a few examples. These are in our foods and making us sick, overweight, and cranky.<\/p>\n

Our bodies have the potential to heal itself and it can do that by eating whole real foods. \u00a0By feeding ourselves real foods, we give our bodies a fighting chance.<\/p>\n

Some have cured their cancer<\/a>. \u00a0Some have cured serious digestive disorders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Food is powerful.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m not saying that modern medicine doesn’t have its place. \u00a0And I’m certainly not suggesting to toss it to the wayside.<\/p>\n

I am saying that we should also consider helping ourselves as much as possible. \u00a0We can do this by taking charge of what we decide to fuel and nourish our bodies with.<\/p>\n

When Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, said, “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food”<\/em>, he was on to something.<\/p>\n

I think that we need to find our way back to this thinking and embrace food as a healing and\u00a0nourishing\u00a0agent.<\/p>\n

Because of this, I’m running a series on my blog for people to have a platform to share their stories of healing their bodies through choosing real whole foods.<\/p>\n

If you have been in a similar situation or know someone that has and would like to talk about, feel free to email me at: Andrea AT foodembrace DOT com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have read my food philosophy section, then you know that I believe in eating whole real foods. Eliminate or reduce processed foods as much as possible. I believe that a lot of aliments that people suffer from these days (cancer, ADHD in kids, high blood pressure, you name it), are a direct result […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3Dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}