I am a nutrition consultant as well as a chef and offer local and long distance phone sessions. Please check out my web site and click on nutrition for more information on programs and specific issues I work with, www.blossomgreen.com. Here in my blog I wanted to comment a bit on some things I see and work with often.
Eating Disorders
Traditionally we think of eating disorders as bulimia, anorexia, and bing eating right? Well I want you to think about this in a different way. Think about it in terms of ‘disordered eating’. I find that almost all of my female clients, and more and more men exhibit disorded eating of some nature. Many women skip meals, replace them with low calorie foods or beverages, avoid all fat, are afraid of food, have no idea what to eat to be healthy and feel good, and are obsessed with weight and more specifically, being thin- often being thin way beyond what is natural for their frame and health. Am I right? And even when they are “thin”, they still obsess. This never ends. Wouldn’t you call that an eating disorder?
How much energy is lost to this obsession every year of our lives that could be better spent on loved ones, thinking about issues we care about, or just enjoying life, let alone our bodies and dare I say it, a better sex life…? (Just think about what hating your body does to your sex life. Not good).
What is going on with us friends? I worry about us. I care about what is happening to us as women. We’re out in the world, working harder and harder, and hating ourselves more and more. We take our ‘issues’ out on ourselves, and our bodies perhaps. Is that what we are doing? Did you know that previous generations did not do this the way that we do? I’ll get back to this point..
The rates of diagnosed eating disorders (and of course, this is just from diagnosed cases) is sky rocketing in our times. From some statistics 80% or more of freshman and sophmore girls in college describe themselves as bulimic or anorexic.
Does this surprise you?
It shouldn’t. Do you know a friend dieting? Are you dieting? Have you spent most of your life dieting? Did you ever stop to think about this as not so normal? You see, its so normal in our times that we don’t even think that dieting isn’t normal!
Interesting.
So what is going on?
Did you know that the amount of processed foods on the shelves in grocery stores has exponentially increased over the last 30 years? (Will find actual stats on this for us- stay tuned)
Did you realize the amount of high fructose corn syrup, sugars, chemicals, toxins, and damaged and toxic fats are in these products?
Do you know what this does to your liver?
Did you know that a sluggish liver will help to create weight gain? Your body will also store toxins in your fat to protect you and keep them out of your blood stream and vital organs, thus another reason we will store and not be able to lose weight.
Did you know that over 70% of people today in America are said to not know how to cook for themselves?
So guess what? We are buying all that crap on the shelves instead. Yep, I said crap. Thats what it is. Do we really expect our bodies to give us energy, joy in living, a great sex drive, great skin and hair, and keep away depression eating that way?
If you don’t eat the nutrient, your body won’t have it. I know, sounds basic right? It is!
Did you know that a deficiency of just one mineral has been shown to create anorexia in rats? ONE. Just one mineral.
Do you know which mineral it is?
