A simple and very effective solution how to introduce healthy food to your family.
If 10 years ago somebody would have told me that fruits are very healthy....... Healthy for everyday's eating as an excellent source of vitamins.... And even necessary - eating fruits is A MUST as a natural medicine for human body.... I would have replied: "Yes, indeed! I know this very well! I love fruits and eat fruits every day!"
But with age (as early as after 25 y.o.) I began to develop problems of health: BIG problems - that brought with them many troubles, sleepless nights and worrying headaches. As well as small problems that obviously decrease my work productivity, made me less outgoing and rip me off for many hours of enjoying the good state of physical health when everything was OK.
In general, all these health problems took lots of my time and money... Until I realised the simply secret that......... Even during all my adult life, I never developed a well-deserved appreciation as well as correct attitude towards fruits and vegetables. I am not afraid to name the reason bluntly - usually it is a lack of knowledge and lack of understanding. Read my story....
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1. How to introduce healthy food to your family
Presentation by: Dr Sally Webster
2. How to introduce healthy food to your family
Just how do you introduce healthy food to your family? Well. Here's some
advice on a simple and very effective solution how to introduce healthy
food to your family.
If 10 years ago somebody would have told me that fruits are very
healthy....... Healthy for every day's eating as an excellent source of
vitamins.... And even necessary - eating fruits is A MUST as a natural
medicine for human body.... I would have replied: "Yes, indeed! I know this
very well! I love fruits and eat fruits every day!"
But with age (as early as after 25 years old) I began to develop problems of
health:
BIG problems - that brought with them many troubles, sleepless nights and
worrying headaches. As well as small problems that obviously decrease my
work productivity, made me less outgoing and rip me off for many hours of
enjoying the good state of physical health when everything was OK.
In general, all these health problems took lots of my time and money...
Until I realised the simply secret that......... Even during all my adult life, I
never developed a well-deserved appreciation as well as correct attitude
towards fruits and vegetables. I am not afraid to name the reason bluntly -
usually it is a lack of knowledge and lack of understanding.
Only then I understood that in reality I used to take fruits 'for granted'. That
time the benefit of my 'eating fruits' was diminished to the very minimum as
I eat only 1-2 fruits per day, usually after lunch or at breakfast time.
If I happened to become hungry in between meals or on my way to work,
home etc, I would rather prefer to have a light snack of a sandwich or a
roll, but definitely not fruit. While it is the FRUITS that MUST be eaten on
empty stomach - to derive more benefit as fruits are recommended to
eaten separately without other food.
If earlier I would have been told that I don't use fruits for sustaining my
good health, I would've replied angrily "No, what do you mean! Indeed I use
fruits! But my life- style is very busy, lots of hard work, endless stresses
and, on top of all, poor ecology. These all affect my health very negatively.
3. And can fruits do anything about that????!"
But now, looking to past, I must and I will admit: "Fruits and vegetables CAN
dramatically change one's health. Especially if one knows HOW, WHEN AND
WHAT TO USE for a particular health problem.....
In conclusion, the major reason of “Not going GREEN” and therefore, not
benefitting enough from the Nature’s generous treasures is still hidden in
the LACK of correct presentation of this valuable information!
Then even if parents don’t value these blessings of mother-nature, then
how can one blame children for refusing to eat these Nature’s treasures
while even those who want to lead a healthy life style, don’t have a full
picture of WHAT vegetables and fruits can do to one’s body and mind!
Even if we have a basic picture such as: “carrot is good for eye-sight,
oranges – to boost immune system, watermelon provides excellent cleansing
effect”, still, in order to convince not only somebody but even yourself, we
have to get more useful information. And, usually, this “info” comes in a
form of boring statistic facts or dull, grey nutrition tables.
Stop!
Please, stop for a moment! Don’t you understand that even you and I, like
any other adult of any age, won’t pay sufficient (enough) attention to any
information if it presented in a such ‘mind-numbing’ (dreary, uninteresting)
form. This is not the method to encourage, rather on the contrary, it is a
highly effective and quicker way to make somebody bored!
Nevertheless, then what to say about young children and their tiny
inquisitive minds, whose learning skills performance is best when powered
by bright, colourful associations and sharp fantasy-world imagination.
No doubt, anyone will agree with me, no matter what age we are, we all
would prefer to read text that are combined with attractive, eye-catching
images! That’s why the skill of colour-science is an independent science.
And so many interesting books, research papers, scientific proof and related
articles are dedicated to colours’ physiological effect on people’s mind.
Also, the second emphasis is on how the reading material is presented. Do
not generalize, but personalize.
It is no longer a secret that the best, TOP read articles (with highest
popularity and read coefficient) in magazines, newspapers etc. are stories
with a main character i.e. a narration, with main hero, with sequential
4. unwinding of a story: with a beginning, intervening occurrences and
culmination, even if this is just a short narration about an event or product.
If any readable material is interlinked with an individual and his/her
personal experiences, it is always easier to read, easier to accept and
easier to remember. That’s why we always read testimonials, as they come
from somebody and are put in simple words that’s easy to digest.
As for myself, until the age of 30 I never showed much interest towards
vegetables and, I am ashamed to say, even some fruits. And it is not that I
wasn’t aware of healthy eating, of ‘greens’ benefits – indeed I heard and
read now and then about it, but it didn’t create that bright image in my
memory that would lead me on and be my ‘guiding star’ in my and my
family’s eating plan (schedule).
Luckily enough, on my 30th birthday I received not only best wishes and E-cards,
but among numerous emails there was an unusual email from one of
my friends. It contained a large juicy image of a pineapple, and a link with
the unusual words - Healthy Birthday! A gift for you that's hidden in...
pineapples!??
The link lead to an article, actually more correctly, to an entertaining story
about pineapples.
In a light form, this story tells about a mother and her little son. And, at the
same time, it is a very informative conception about benefits of pineapples
(and fruits in general) that convey information to the HEART of the reader.
This method not just narrates, it ensures that the one who reads (or listens
to) will ABSORB, HEAR and REMEMBER the important information about this
story!
Simple words make their way to the reader’s mind and heart, creating in
his/her conscious ‘live’ images of a little sickly boy, his concerned mother
and a deliciously juicy pineapple. The story also has a moral (and even
business-minded) value as it concludes on a brief note that this little boy
decided to help other people to stay healthy, and when he grew up, he
became a medical scientist and businessman – he started a unique fruit-vegetables
shop in his small town.
…To continue my own path to Healthy Food…
Being inspired by this first touch of this new approach and introduction to
fruits and vegetables to the Mind and Heart, I was very excited to read the
next story from the same book. Then the following, then all other stories
which were available to be read online on the website (stories from the
new book that is available in bookstore at amazon: The Storyteller’s guide
5. to health food).
I can remember, the second story was about beetroot (again a very unique
fairytale-like story about 3 sisters - beetroot of different types, but with
lots of information, tips and even recipes). The third story was on
watermelon. That particular story I happened to read in summer and this
time I read it aloud to my friends because I wanted to check what their
reactions would be. The effect can talk for itself – my friends’ appreciation
towards watermelon and, of course, later towards all fruits and vegetables
increased immensely. Moreover, they enthusiastically copied the story and
shared it with their family, loved ones and even with neighbors.
No need to say that acquaintance with this brilliant ideas and innovative
method exposed in these wonderful books of the project KindBook became
a turning point not only in my life, but in life of my family and friends.
Moreover, gradually and steadily it opened a new door in the lives of all
those who are concerned about health and the value of healthy food.
If you are about to make your first step in HEALING yourself and HEALING
our planet: leave those ‘boring’ percentage tables for later!
Firstly try to kindle in people a flame of interest in Nature’s gifts to
humanity! Heal yourself, then Heal others. With this unique approach make
them enthusiastic to increase their energy, productivity and health! And to
teach our future generation how to be the best citizens of our Planet Earth:
kind, healthy, successful!
And, last but not least! Remember the GOLDEN RULE: the more goodness
you bring into the lives of others, the more goodness will come back to you!
Let me wish all of you what I wish for myself and my family - BEST HEALTH!
[ A submitted article to my website NaturoNews.com]
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Stay healthy.
Regards
Sally