YOU, a person.  You’re one bundle of lots of things.  Everything that is YOU is in one package.

One package with your beliefs about the future.  Viewpoints of the world and of yourself. Habits.  Behaviors.  Patterns of thinking.  These are YOU.

When we cleanse we think of what we’re eating.  It doesn’t occur to us that we’re beginning to affect every part of who we are.

Nutritional cleansing changes everything.  Because those changes are foundational every part of you is affected. 

Your thoughts, your beliefs, the friends you attract, your view of the world.  These are transformed when you cleanse at the cellular level. 

Yes, even your friends change and how you see the world.

A circle around the triangle will represent the SOCIAL CONTEXT. Everything that is YOU (the triangle) lives within a social context (the circle).

None of us lives in a vacuum; humans are social animals. To discover what makes a person tick, for example, study the five people with whom he spends most of his time. 

We’re influenced by the consciousness of the people with whom we spend most of our time. We’re part of a culture with ideas, philosophy, and a viewpoint of the world.

WE’RE ACCEPT THE BELIEFS OF OUR CULTURE

Cultures rise and fall, of course.  The familiar example is the Roman Empire which climbed to its zenith before crumbling apart when attacked by marauding tribes.

Every tribe has its golden years followed by decline.

Most of us stick to old beliefs from the dying culture, even when no longer true, justifying why they no longer work instead of admitting they simply are no longer true.

“Go to college, get a degree, get a job, stick with it, and everything will be fine,” doesn’t work anymore.  People haven’t admitted that yet.

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We’ve lost the minerals in our food.

You’d have to eat 3 of today’s apples to get the amount of, say, iron, in just one apple during Grandma’s day in 1950.  It takes three of our apples to equal the nutrition in just one apple picked around 1950.  That’s about a third loss of food value in only 60 years.

PROFIT AND GREED ARE ROBBING US OF HEALTHY FOOD

The move to make money has pushed flavorful, nutrient-rich food out of the produce section.  Selective breeding gives fruits and vegetables longer shelf life, and toughens tomato skins so they look good longer and ship better.  This favors the middlemAn, not the customer or farmer.

Selectively breed for one or two traits and you automatically loose other traits–usually flavor and nutrition. The goal “profit over all” robs our bodies of vitamins and minerals we need for optimum health.

RIPENESS AND SWEETNESS LURE US WHEN NUTRITION IS HIGHEST

Deep color and oozing sweetness go together for very good reason. They attract us when vitamin and mireral content are highest. When fruit is picked while it’s still green it ships well, but there’s the nutritive value hasn’t had time to develop.

There’s “intelligence” in the symbiotic relationship between humans and plants. Stay with me here. Fruit, for example, is at its richness and sweetest when its nutritional value is highest. Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, maintains that evolution has developed plants with raised sugar content as mineral and vitamin content peak. Sweetness temps us to eat when nutrition is highest it will ever be. When we pick fruit too early, as conventional agriculture does, that connection is severed. Plants and humans have evolved together over centuries. Higher profit gets in the way of that beautiful plan.

Nutritionally we’re fooled into thinking we’re feeding our bodies what they need to ward off disease. We can buy melons and asparagus in the dead of winter, but what value do they have for health? Little because when they’re picked early and shipped long distances food value is sacrificed.

GET NUTRITIOUS FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AT YOUR FARMERS MARKET

The only place you’ll see really ripe, nutrient-rich vegetables and fruits today is in your CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box, a local Farmers’ Market, or your own garden.

Become educated about what has happened to our food in the last 50-60 years. What produce is available in your area? 

Cleansing is still important. Keep toxin awareness in the front of your mind and fill your grocery list with foods that are truly healthy and toxin-free as much as possible.

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