Inspiring Us to Change Our Habits and Change Our Lives
Inspiring Us to Change Our Habits and Change Our Lives
Cyndi’s upbringing is the foundation for her passion and career choice. Her father was a pharmacist who became disillusioned with his profession and went to America to learn about Chiropractic and its philosophy of Vitalism. Cyndi’s parents decided that, unless it was life threatening, their three children would never be given medication.
Cyndi now has three children of her own, only one of whom has ever taken medication. This was to ease the pain of a broken wrist and the effects of the paracetamol lasted 13 hours, rather than the usual 4-6 hours. She believes that providing medication as a solution to every ache and pain creates a dependence on medication as a solution for a lifetime, and lowers our tolerance of the natural pain we experience in life. Cyndi also believes that this reliance on medication may lead to elicit drug use by programming the message that a little white pill will make you feel better, rather than using your own coping mechanisms to overcome life’s physical and emotional challenges.
Current diet philosophies are often all about how much of each food component we consume, without assessing foods for their overall nutritional value. A food may have a low fat content, but the list of ingredients could include sweeteners, fillers and colorings, which have no nutritional value and do not occur naturally but have been produced in a laboratory. Eating foods closest to their natural state provides for optimum nutritional content, nourishing the body and ensuring overall health. Cyndi also purports that eating this way is ideal for long term health and weight management.
So how did we get to a place in our society where the food we eat is so far removed from its’ natural state?
Around thirty years ago, the component parts of food began to be analysed. For example, butter was deemed to be unhealthy due to its 60% saturated fat content, while the unsaturated and mono-saturated fat content of margarine was offered as the healthy alternative. It was discovered over time that margarine delivered trans-fats, which are particularly unhealthy for the human body. Trans-fats have been removed from many margarines, however margarine remains an artificial, chemical-rich food and, according to Cyndi, is one of the most dangerous foods on the market, contributing to heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.
And how is it that we are sold these products as healthy food options, when in fact the opposite is often the case?
Marketing is about selling a product regardless of its real benefit to us as individuals. Cyndi says we should look behind studies into specific foods and discover how they are financed, claiming that 98% of studies favorable to artificial sweeteners are funded by companies that manufacture them, not by independent research bodies.
Many people believe in the formula of `calorie in – calorie out`. So, if what you eat in calories equals what you expend in energy, your weight will be stable; eat more than you expend and you gain weight; eat less than you expend and lose weight. However, while agreeing that exercise is important, Cyndi believes that it is food quality that is the most important ingredient to outrageous health. In fact, she mostly shops at the fruit and vegetable store buying foods that she knows are unaltered and still in their natural state. She gets a couple of products at the grocery store, but very little that is packaged. If you do buy packaged goods, Cyndi recommends reading the list of ingredients, and asking yourself, 'do I really want to consume those chemicals’? In her latest newsletter, Cyndi presents the breakdown of ingredients in strawberry flavouring. She found that it consists of 35 to 40 chemicals, and very little, if any, real strawberry.
Once upon a time, flour used to be yellow in colour until refiners began to be used to extract the bran and germ from the wheat in order to preserve the flour longer. In doing this, much of the nutritional value and fibre was also removed. The white refined sugar sold today goes through about 15 processes, where substances such as lye and canola oil are added. White sugar is 99.4% sucrose and 0.4% ash with no minerals and no vitamins. There is nothing good in white sugar. However there are other sugar options like organic muscovado, which contains vitamins, minerals and trace elements found in the natural sugar cane plant and can be used wherever you would normally use white refined sugar. Cyndi believes that white flour and white sugar are major contributors to the increase in obesity and diabetes.
Cyndi’s approach to assisting others change their habits to change their lives is a gradual process. One person took 18 months to complete the program changing one habit at a time. However, at the end of 18 months, she no longer needed drugs for her arthritis, dermatitis or asthma. As an added bonus, she also dropped from size 16 to size 8 during that period of time.
In the past 11 years there has been a five-fold increase in depression. Cyndi feels that our intake of carbohydrates and proteins need to be reviewed in the context of the potential influence on our well-being. Traditionally, we consume carbohydrates for breakfast and protein for the evening meal. Carbohydrates release serotonin, a chemical that creates calmness in the brain, and proteins contained in meat and vegetables release noradrenalin and dopamine which motivate and excite - so we are calm in the morning and excited and awake after our evening meal.
In summary, fueling our body so that we feel energetic, healthy and happy is as easy as following Cyndi’s advice by changing one habit at a time. Start with breakfast - perhaps have one of her highly nutritious protein smoothies that will keep you energetic until lunch time. Recipes are included in her 21- day plan, so that making changes each day is easy and something the whole family can participate in.n order to have a wonderfully healthy, functioning body, ensure that 80% of the foods and beverages you consume are in their truest natural state, just as they were grown, and you’re sure to be off to a wonderful start in your journey to live an outrageously healthy life.
Inspiring Us to Change Our Habits and Change Our Lives - To learn more about this author, visit Lenore Miller's Website.
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Cyndi O’Meara is the author of “Changing Habits-Changing Lives” and is a very passionate nutritionist. Cyndi’s focus is on holistic food quality rather than the quantity of food or the components of food such as fat, carbohydrate and protein.
Cyndi’s upbringing is the foundation for her passion and career choice. Her father was a pharmacist who became disillusioned with his profession and went to America to learn about Chiropractic and its philosophy of Vitalism. Cyndi’s parents decided that, unless it was life threatening, their three children would never be given medication.
Cyndi now has three children of her own, only one of whom has ever taken medication. This was to ease the pain of a broken wrist and the effects of the paracetamol lasted 13 hours, rather than the usual 4-6 hours. She believes that providing medication as a solution to every ache and pain creates a dependence on medication as a solution for a lifetime, and lowers our tolerance of the natural pain we experience in life. Cyndi also believes that this reliance on medication may lead to elicit drug use by programming the message that a little white pill will make you feel better, rather than using your own coping mechanisms to overcome life’s physical and emotional challenges.
Current diet philosophies are often all about how much of each food component we consume, without assessing foods for their overall nutritional value. A food may have a low fat content, but the list of ingredients could include sweeteners, fillers and colorings, which have no nutritional value and do not occur naturally but have been produced in a laboratory. Eating foods closest to their natural state provides for optimum nutritional content, nourishing the body and ensuring overall health. Cyndi also purports that eating this way is ideal for long term health and weight management.
So how did we get to a place in our society where the food we eat is so far removed from its’ natural state?
Around thirty years ago, the component parts of food began to be analysed. For example, butter was deemed to be unhealthy due to its 60% saturated fat content, while the unsaturated and mono-saturated fat content of margarine was offered as the healthy alternative. It was discovered over time that margarine delivered trans-fats, which are particularly unhealthy for the human body. Trans-fats have been removed from many margarines, however margarine remains an artificial, chemical-rich food and, according to Cyndi, is one of the most dangerous foods on the market, contributing to heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.
And how is it that we are sold these products as healthy food options, when in fact the opposite is often the case?
Marketing is about selling a product regardless of its real benefit to us as individuals. Cyndi says we should look behind studies into specific foods and discover how they are financed, claiming that 98% of studies favorable to artificial sweeteners are funded by companies that manufacture them, not by independent research bodies.
Many people believe in the formula of `calorie in – calorie out`. So, if what you eat in calories equals what you expend in energy, your weight will be stable; eat more than you expend and you gain weight; eat less than you expend and lose weight. However, while agreeing that exercise is important, Cyndi believes that it is food quality that is the most important ingredient to outrageous health. In fact, she mostly shops at the fruit and vegetable store buying foods that she knows are unaltered and still in their natural state. She gets a couple of products at the grocery store, but very little that is packaged. If you do buy packaged goods, Cyndi recommends reading the list of ingredients, and asking yourself, 'do I really want to consume those chemicals’? In her latest newsletter, Cyndi presents the breakdown of ingredients in strawberry flavouring. She found that it consists of 35 to 40 chemicals, and very little, if any, real strawberry.
Once upon a time, flour used to be yellow in colour until refiners began to be used to extract the bran and germ from the wheat in order to preserve the flour longer. In doing this, much of the nutritional value and fibre was also removed. The white refined sugar sold today goes through about 15 processes, where substances such as lye and canola oil are added. White sugar is 99.4% sucrose and 0.4% ash with no minerals and no vitamins. There is nothing good in white sugar. However there are other sugar options like organic muscovado, which contains vitamins, minerals and trace elements found in the natural sugar cane plant and can be used wherever you would normally use white refined sugar. Cyndi believes that white flour and white sugar are major contributors to the increase in obesity and diabetes.
Cyndi’s approach to assisting others change their habits to change their lives is a gradual process. One person took 18 months to complete the program changing one habit at a time. However, at the end of 18 months, she no longer needed drugs for her arthritis, dermatitis or asthma. As an added bonus, she also dropped from size 16 to size 8 during that period of time.
In the past 11 years there has been a five-fold increase in depression. Cyndi feels that our intake of carbohydrates and proteins need to be reviewed in the context of the potential influence on our well-being. Traditionally, we consume carbohydrates for breakfast and protein for the evening meal. Carbohydrates release serotonin, a chemical that creates calmness in the brain, and proteins contained in meat and vegetables release noradrenalin and dopamine which motivate and excite - so we are calm in the morning and excited and awake after our evening meal.
In summary, fueling our body so that we feel energetic, healthy and happy is as easy as following Cyndi’s advice by changing one habit at a time. Start with breakfast - perhaps have one of her highly nutritious protein smoothies that will keep you energetic until lunch time. Recipes are included in her 21- day plan, so that making changes each day is easy and something the whole family can participate in.n order to have a wonderfully healthy, functioning body, ensure that 80% of the foods and beverages you consume are in their truest natural state, just as they were grown, and you’re sure to be off to a wonderful start in your journey to live an outrageously healthy life.
Inspiring Us to Change Our Habits and Change Our Lives - To learn more about this author, visit Lenore Miller's Website.
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