| AND SAVE MONEY IN THE PROCESS. The secret is | | | | the label says "Kraft Pasteurized Processed |
| simple and basic. Just three little words --- | | | | Cheese Food," it is not cheese. If it says |
| DON'T BUY IT! If you don't buy it, you won't | | | | "Breakfast Orange Drink"--it is not juice. |
| eat it. If you don't eat it, you won't get | | | | Check out the nutritional values, |
| fat. So your problem starts at the store or | | | | particularly fat---stay away from saturated |
| restaurant.Since your diet starts at the | | | | fat. INGREDIENTS must be listed in dominance |
| store, were you ever taught how to shop for | | | | order. If sugar or water is listed first, it |
| food? Probably not. The grocery store can | | | | is mostly sugar or water. The last ingredient |
| destroy your diet and get into your | | | | is least significant. Anything after salt is |
| pocketbook . First you need to check the | | | | of little use. Do you know what those |
| layout of the store, ---where everything is. | | | | ingredients are? Can you pronounce them? And |
| Leave the produce for last, so it will be as | | | | you want to feed this to your family?COUPONS |
| fresh as you can get it.REMEMBER: 70% of the | | | | are a gimmick to get you to buy something you |
| products are there just to take your money. | | | | don't need in the first place. Save 50 cents |
| Notice how many rows they have of soda, | | | | on chips, when you can save $3 if you didn't |
| cereal, and snacks. Look what they've done to | | | | buy it. Do you ever find coupons for REAL |
| the potato--instant potatoes, mashed | | | | food? Marketers know you need the basics. |
| potatoes, french fries, tater tots, shoe | | | | Nature didn't make snickers, it made nuts. |
| string, chips, twice baked. Notice the | | | | Nature didn't make chips, it made potatoes. |
| shelves along the aisles. Everything is | | | | Nature didn't make soda pop, it made water |
| conveniently displayed close to your reach--a | | | | and juice. Nature didn't make wieners, it |
| ploy by the store to buy those products. On | | | | made fish. Nature didn't make Snickers, it |
| the lower shelves are products aimed at kids. | | | | made raisins. Nature didn't make fritoes, it |
| Look lower or higher, and you will find the | | | | made corn. Our society is food oriented. On |
| same products--for less. If nature didn't | | | | every corner there is a restaurant, fast |
| make it, you don't need it. Stay away from | | | | food, and everything in between. You are |
| processed and imitation foods. Try to stay | | | | bombarded with ads from the media. Your body |
| away from canned food (you never know what's | | | | knows what it needs. It knows when to stop |
| in the can). Stick with the fresh & frozen | | | | eating apples, not candy. Once you start |
| foods.Check out the PACKAGES carefully. That | | | | eating Mother Nature's diet you can lose |
| box or package may not be full. 1 -Solids are | | | | weight, and feel much better about yourself |
| measured by weight-- ounces, pounds. . 2 | | | | Listen to your body.Add exercise to your |
| -Liquids are measured by volume-- gallon, | | | | lifestyle, and you can add years to your |
| quart, pint. 3- Price -5% of the price for | | | | life. Do something every day, even if its |
| the product is for the product it itself. 95% | | | | walking, climbing stairs, playing with the |
| of the price is for; packaging, | | | | kids. A good exercise program should include |
| manufacturing, transportation, middlemen, | | | | aerobics (running, swimming, jump rope, fast |
| salaries, insurance, utilities, etc. Let's | | | | dancing), endurance (working with weights), |
| say a gallon of milk cost $2.00. The milk is | | | | and flexibility ( calisthenics, yoga). Your |
| 10 cents, the rest is $1.90.According to the | | | | body was meant to be used, not abused. You |
| FDA, LABELS must be specific and truthful. If | | | | deserve it. |