Rule #1 in Dr. Ritchason’s Golden Rules of Health
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… is to stop putting poisons into your body. I’m not refering to poisons in the general sense with skulls and crossbones on the label. I’m refering to foods and drinks that have little to no nutrition such as overly-processed or fried foods and drinks that are straight processed sugar and caffeine.
I tell my clients that we all know what is “good food” – fruits and vegetables that have good color, some meat (or if you’re vegetarian, a good balance of amino acids). It’s easy to get caught in a cycle of dieting where you sacrifice good nutrition for low calories and diet drinks. Choose healthier alternatives. Vitamin/mineral supplements certainly help, but cannot make up for poor food choices.
Wendy
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This is such a powerful starting point! Bad stuff in can only have a negative result. Refined foods, such as those you mentioned, would certainly count as “poisons”. I would also count environmental toxins (we either breathe them in or they get absorbed through the skin), heavy metals, pesticides, and even poor quality body care products (again with the skin absorption). There are many good references out there; one is the website of my alumni association, CSNN. Visit http://www.csnnalumni.org/info_professional.asp?id= for more toxin details.
Rebecca