GMO's & Obesity. What's the connection?

Simple fact: 

If your food does not contain the nutrients you need, in the right ratios, your body will compensate by eating more and more to catch up. The result: you get fat AND malnourished. I'm not talking full figured and healthy here, I'm talking WAY out of health. 

Question: Why do we have nutrient empty food? 

Answer: It's cheap. And addictive. Like crack. It costs very little to produce bad food. If you liven it up with salt, msg, sugar, aspartame, dyes, etc, then it become a drug food. And people get addicted to it. Because it doesn't actually satisfy, you need to eat more and more. Just like a drug. This makes tons of profit and ruins the health of millions, especially the poor. 

Simple truth:

Your body needs non-genetically altered foods, grown in vital soil, full of nutrients, eaten shortly after being picked, in its most un-modified state, to actually contain the greatest amount of vitamins & minerals possible to truly feed your body. 

Question: Why is this so hard to achieve? 

Answer: Time, Money and Ethics. Doing what's best over doing what's easy (& profitable) can be a hard change for a country of fake food addicts, not to mention all the economic pressure from the agri-chemical & commercial food industries to keep doing it wrong. 

The solution: You. Me. Us. 

We are the "Slow Food" Revolution. The Slow Food Revolution is about real people supporting, consuming and being passionate about real food. It's called Slow, because it's a return to simple, non-rushed eating. It's called Slow to encourage all of us to make time for the gift of food in our lives. It's about bringing joy, taste, sensuality and recreation back into food. Make real food a priority and it will make a real difference in your life. 

Once you go Slow, you'll never go back!

Stay tuned for 101 solutions that are easy, powerful and will make you feel like a real Slow Food Revolution Super Hero!


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Let yourself be yourself, from the center out to the farthest parts. You are a Gift.

Kale salad- Who knew an anti-inflammatory could be this delicious!

recipe for kale salad with avocado and apple

ingredients:

*1 bunch of kale, thick stems removed and coarsely chopped

*1 ripe avocado, diced

*sea salt and freshly ground pepper

*1 small garlic clove, peeled and minced

*3 tablespoons olive oil

*1 carrot, peeled and sliced into thin half moons

*1 small, green apple, sliced thin

*1 scallion, green part only, thinly sliced

*1 large handful of raw or toasted pine nuts (or toasted almonds)

*1 handful of dulse flakes- optional

*1 handful fresh mint, chopped- optional

directions:

1. Place kale in a large bowl with the avocado. Add salt, garlic, and olive oil. Mix very well, "massaging" the greens for about 3 minutes.

2. Reserve a small handful of the carrot and apple slices for garnish, then gently fold the rest into the kale mixture with the scallion, pine nuts, dulse flakes, and mint. Taste and season with additional sea salt, if necessary (the dulse is salty, so it be careful you don't add too much)

Kale is highly nutritious, has powerful antioxidant properties, and is anti-inflammatory. One cup of cooked kale contains an astounding 1,328 percent of the RDA for vitamin K, 192 percent of the RDA for vitamin A, and 89 percent of the RDA for vitamin C. It's also a good source of calcium and iron.

Kale is in the same plant family as broccoli and cabbage, and, like its cruciferous cousins, it contains high levels of the cancer-fighting compound sulforaphane, which guards against prostate, gastric, skin, and breast cancers by boosting the body's detoxification enzymes and fighting free radicals in the body. The indoles in kale have been shown to protect against breast, cervical, and colon cancers. The vitamin K in kale promotes blood clotting, protects the heart, and helps build strong bones by anchoring calcium to the bone. It also has more antioxidant power than spinach, protecting against free-radical damage. Kale is extra rich in beta-carotene (containing seven times as much as does broccoli), lutein, and zeaxanthin (ten times the amount in broccoli). In Chinese medicine, kale is used to help ease lung congestion.