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