We want to welcome the fantastic ladies over at NourishMD – Sue and Angelle – to the SqueezeItIn guest blogger family! NourishMD is to food what SqueezeItIn is to exercise: NourishMD strives to create a vision of how to feed your family REAL food and incorporate healthy living into your busy life, everyday.  Read on and “get real” about what you’re eating:

Want to feel healthier in just a few weeks?  Squeeze more REAL food into your days!

REAL food is the food that your great-grandmother would have had in her kitchen.  It’s the food that has always been here – long before the era of artificially flavored, sweetened and colored genetically modified foods.   REAL food comes from nature, not a scientist in a white lab coat.  REAL food is what our bodies thrive on:  vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, legumes, whole grains and high quality animal proteins.  These can be categorized as Powerful Proteins, Fabulous Fats and Colorful Carbs and can be enjoyed on their own or combined in a zillion ways to make delicious meals and snacks.  For lots of REAL food recipes click HERE.

The opposite of REAL food is fake food and it is what we are bombarded with these days.  When you pick up a packaged food, look at the ingredients.  If you see words like enriched flour; high fructose corn syrup; partially hydrogenated oil; artificial flavors, colors or sweeteners or any words you can’t pronounce, you’re looking at a fake food. (Think white lab coat.) Fake food promotes illness.  Leave it on the grocery store shelf.  Click HERE for more information on fake foods and how they impact your health.

None of us eat REAL food 100% of the time.  We’re busy and we need convenience.  This is where Bridging foods come in.  They are foods that are very close to their natural state, but have been somewhat processed or maybe have one questionable ingredient.  These foods are usually convenient and help us bridge the obstacles we face when trying to eat healthier:  lack of time, lack of motivation, lack of energy and lack of knowledge.  An example to illustrate a bridging food is store-bought apple sauce with no added ingredients – not quite REAL like the whole apple with the peel and all the enzymes in tact, but no added ingredients like high fructose corn syrup.

This week commit to squeezing more REAL foods into one meal or snack each day.  Before you know it you will be healthier and happier just by making one manageable change in your day.

Click HERE for REAL food ideas from NourishMD.com that you and your family will love!

NourishMD.com saves you time and money by connecting you with experts and resources in a like-minded holistic community.  It’s a unique combination of research-based solutions and practical REAL life answers and the only on-line resource created by two moms who are also health experts: a Holistic Pediatrician and a Holistic Health Counselor with a masters degree in education. As trained health-care professionals, they bring their collective knowledge and expertise to the NourishMD.com community.  As moms they bring their “far-from-perfect” REAL life experiences as well.  NourishMD strives to create a vision of how to feed your family REAL food and incorporate healthy living into your busy life, everyday.

Please note: The information provided here is for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for the advice or treatment given by your doctor or dietitian. Please consult with a registered dietitian or your doctor if you have any questions about the information in this post.

Read more: http://www.squeezeitin.com/2010/05/nutrition-end-emotional-eating/#more-2232#ixzz0oIsVNJnU

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