Eating healthy is intentional. It's a habit or routine that takes effort. If you've been eating intentionally for awhile you know how much better your body feels and how much quicker the mind has become. You may also notice that injuries heal a little quicker and you don't seem to get sick as often. These are all the perks of a healthy lifestyle with good nutrition at the top of the list. Real, wholesome, honest-to-goodness food nourishes us and feeds our minds and bodies at a cellular level. During winter months when we get less sunshine and exercise, it's even more important to eat healthy. Winter wellness depends on it.

 

All of these things sound pretty good, but you may not have considered how delicious eating healthy can be. All natural, whole foods can be just as tasty as those created in a lab. Even more so. A quick search of our Discover Wellness Blog will turn up a plethora of wonderful all-natural recipes featuring organic veggies, fruits, grass-fed and pasture-raised meats and we're offering 15% off this week on our Winter Wellness category to help with shopping.

 

Yes, all-natural, whole foods tend to cost a little more than ultra-processed foods, but the nutritional value for your dollar is vastly higher with natural foods. Family farms invest a great deal of effort into flavor by building rich soils, providing stress free environments for animals, and finding natural solutions to challenges in an attempt to avoid corrupting the final product. Our farms don't use pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, growth hormones, or antibiotics because while they can make the task easier, they pollute the results. We've found that when farms stop fighting against nature and start working with it, the final product is so much tastier and better for you.

 

On the other hand, ultra processed foods are made to be addictive. They are tested and marketed to appeal to our cravings. That craving is a trigger to get us to buy more junk food. Big food manufacturers use lots of chemicals, food additives, sweeteners, flavor enhancers, dyes, stabilizers, and preservatives to produce their product that has little, if any nutritional value. It's cheap to produce but offers little more than a frenzy for taste buds, empty calories, and an increased likelihood of chronic illness. We want to see America become healthier. It starts with each one of us making a few changes.