About Health PK

Want to move towards better health? I believe small changes can add up to BIG results. Here are 6 simple "swaps" that will move you down the path to better health.  1. Old Way: Flavored Potato Chips and Dip New Way: Plain Potato Chips (even better Vegetables) and Healthy Dip If you look at the list of ingredients on a bag of flavored potato chips, you’ll likely see that you’re getting a whole lot more than just some added “flavor.” Here’s the ingredient list on my potato chip bag “potatoes, oil, salt”. Here’s the ingredients for flavored BBQ chips:  “potatoes, vegetable oil (sunflower, corn and/or canola oil), bbq seasoning (sugar, dextrose, salt, malted barley flour, torula yeast, molasses, maltodextrin [made from corn], natural flavors [including natural smoke flavor], spices, paprika, corn starch, tomato powder, garlic powder, yeast extract, onion powder, and paprika extract).”   Who wants to be eating all of that?!? Keep it clean and stick with plain chips. ...

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. — 1 Corinthians 10:31 Ah, food… it has the power to give your body strength and add years to your life, or it can zap your body of energy and make you lethargic, obese, and chronically ill. Ann Wigmore puts it this way,  “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison.” Look around and you will find thousands of fad, quick-fix diets that, as you probably know, rarely work. The word diet comes from the Latin word  diaeta  which means “way of life”.   A “diet” should not be a quick fix but a way of life.  That’s why o ur nutrition plans are all based on the fact that  God created our bodies and God created food, so eat what God created in its most natural state. With that said, we focus on: Eating unprocessed, organic (when possible), natural food Changing thoughts and habits concerning food Savin...