Fluff to Buff Not on Coffeemate and Smart Ones

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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Looking closer: FDA arresting Amish farmers?? - they should arrest the people who make Coffee-mate COMPANY BUZZ Achieving Wellness & Weight Loss Class Round Lake Beach, IL 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm RLB Civic Center A fun, informative way to learn how eating real food is the key to permanent weight loss, amazing energy, optimal health, and reduced cravings! This is not a diet. No calorie counting. No weighing food or tracking points. Real food. It will change your life! Registration Information ************** e-course! Achieving Wellness & Weight Loss Live too far away or can't come to the live class? Sign-up for the e-course Check out the e-course Get the e-book plus personal coaching from me on-line. $59 Erin Chamerlik, MS, MT(ASCP) The Real Food Revivalist STAY IN TOUCH Become a Facebook fan Visit my blog Follow me on Twitter Contact me Visit my website Sign up for this newsletter Get Better Wellness Radio Show iTunes Blog Talk Radio Fluff to Buff by Erin Chamerlik, MS MT(ASCP) The Real Food Revivalist   I love a good story that involves the power of real food to change lives. Here are two stories that will encourage you no matter where you are on the path to Get Better. At 300 pounds Dave Parsons referred to himself as "the living dead" in Fall 2009. At age 52 Dave started eating whole food. He stopped eating processed and refined food. No sugar, bread, bagels, cereal, crackers, chips, or soda.  "If I can't kill it, find it, or gather it...I don't eat it. So, it's real easy to eat well." Dave reported to Mark Sisson of MarksDailyapple.com Initially Dave lost about a pound a week. He started doing mild exercise, and lost 40 pounds in the first 6 months. He followed Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint eating and exercise plan and by the end of the first year was down 80 pounds. February 8, 2011 Dave turned 54 years old. Weighing 100 pounds less than when he started.  See the transformation and read his story here http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-unconquerable-dave/ --------------------------------------------- 56 year old "well padded" secretary changed her way of eating and her life and is now a 74 year old body builder. Read Ernestine Shepherd's story on my blog and in her soon to be released book. ----------------------------- Whole food. Real food. It can be so simple. A piece of chicken. A spear of broccoli. An avocado.  We have strayed so far as to think the human body is a giant piggy bank and all that matters is calories.  We eat 100 calorie packs of garbage that we wouldn't feed our dog and we wonder why our digestion is horrible and we can't get off the couch at night.  Our bodies are crying out for real food. Nutrients that come from plants and animals but we eat food-like substances created in food labs.  Are Smart Ones frozen dinners smart? Weight Watchers Smart Ones The website says, "Eating smart has been taken to a whole new level of deliciousness." 240 calories and 4 points Weight Watchers approved? Check. Low Calories? Check. Low Points? Check. That's where most people stop evaluating the package and ingredients.  What are you really eating? Sodium 570.0 mg Potassium 0.0 mg Total Carbohydrate 41.0 g Dietary Fiber 4.0 g Sugars 3.0 g Protein 12.0 g First - 41 grams of carbs less 4 grams of fiber means that 37 g net carbs are quickly turning into sugar in your body (divide net carbs by 4 for teaspoons). This dinner is quickly converted into over 9 teaspoons of sugar.  Would you take some broccoli and sprinkle 9 tsp of sugar on top and think you were eating health food? Smart Ones Ingredients: Trans Fats Any hyrdrogenated oil listed in the ingredients list means the product has trans fats regardless of the nutrition label stating "zero trans fats". Trans fats are linked to depression Trans fats increase inflammation, cancer, heart disease and are linked to diabetes and other chronic diseases. MSG The food industry is very sneaky. Manufacturers are not required to list MSG (thanks to food label laws that do not protect Americans) on the label if the ingredient is not 99% MSG. They may use other code words like autolyzed yeast carrageenan hydrolyzed protein protein isolate more even though it is mostly MSG in your body. MSG is an excitotoxin. It excites your brain cells to death. It can cause: migraine headaches upset stomach fuzzy thinking diarrhea heart irregularities asthma mood swings What many don’t know, is that more than 40 different ingredients contain the chemical in monosodium glutamate (processed free glutamic acid) that causes these reactions (Truth in Labeling.org). Ingredients on Smart Ones package: MSG Trans Fat Sugar Sodium Silico Aluminate: Aluminum containing chemical that keeps things from clumping, like paint, air fresheners and Smart Ones Fettucini sauce. Cooked Enriched Macaroni Product [ Water, Semolina Enriched {Semolina,Niacin,Ferrous Sulfate,Thiamine Mononitrate,Riboflavin,Folic Acid}], Water, Broccoli, Cheese Parmesan [ Milk Pasteurized Cultured, Salt, Enzymes, Cellulose Powdered (Added To Prevent Caking)], Contains less than 2% of Milk Non-Fat Dry, Cornstarch Modified, Shortening Base [ Soybean(s) Oil Partially Hydrogenated, Corn Syrup Solids, Sodium Caseinate, Mono and Diglycerides, Sodium Silico Aluminate], Potato(es) Maltodextrin, Salt, Sodium Citrate, Cheese Flavor [ Cheese Cheddar Enzyme Modified {Milk,Salt,Enzymes}, Yeast Autolyzed, Natural Flavoring], Flavor Enhancer [ Corn Gluten Hydrolyzed, Yeast Extract Autolyzed, Cottonseed Oil Partially Hydrogenated, Soybean(s) Oil Partially Hydrogenated], Spice, Xanthan Gum, Carrageenan It is high in salt, MSG, Trans Fat and sugar....how smart is that? Are Healthy Choice products healthy? Now that you know how to read the labels and ingredients lists, check for yourself. Real food - Have a big salad.  Bake some chicken, steam some broccoli, add organic butter, Real salt, herbs.  That's Real Food that will help you Get Better and turn fluff into buff. Coffee-mate Cream and Creamers are big business generating $1.8 billion in sales. Manufacturers want to get you to try their products, and keep you for life by addicting you with the irresistible ingredients. What is in Coffee-mate and is it really addicting? Basically it is MSG, Sugar, Transfats (hey, isn't that the ingredients in Smart Ones?). Water, sugar, partially hydrogenated soybean or cottonseed oil (trans fats), natural and artificial flavor (MSG), sodium caseinate (MSG), dipotassium phosphate, disodium phosphate, mono and di-glycerides (trans fats), cellulose gel, cellulose gum (used to lubricate drill parts and keep cosmetics from separating), color, carrageenan (MSG), sucralose (fake sugar that causes migranes, seizures, rashes and was never properly tested on humans before getting FDA approval). Yes, it is chemical soup --- but is it addictive? The sugar and MSG are addicting, but here's what a few people say about their beloved Coffee-mate: "I decided to try putting flavored creamer in my coffee and it was AMAZING. Not only did it completely change my stance on coffee from, “eh, that’s all right, I guess” status to “OMG, I need this stuff” status, but now my husband – the non coffee consumer – actually requests that I make coffee." "I found the very last cinnamon bun kind of coffee creamer at Wal-Mart and the coffee truly tastes like cinnamon buns. Needless to say, we both went from drinking zippo cups of coffee to several cups a day. The best part about the creamer is that if you have a sweet tooth like me or are struggling with your cappuccino addiction, it is a much lower calorie way to satisfy that craving as the creamer runs about 30 to 35 calories a tablespoon." -------------------------- As for me, I love real cream.   This is the lovely thick layer that forms when raw milk sits undisturbed for awhile. Real cream is full of fat soluble vitamins, congugated linoleic acid, enzymes, beneficial probiotics, and CoQ10.  Pasteurization destroys all the good things in raw cream but that is the only way most people can get cream. It is a crime in some parts of the U.S. to sell delicious organic raw cream, milk and fresh butter. I believe they are arresting the wrong people (like poor menonite farmers) when they should be arresting Nestle and other food manufacturers for selling unsuspecting consumers this addicting, harmful, MSG-loaded cinnamon bun-flavored, non-separating, artificially-sweetened, trans fat-laden coffee additive.  See the video - FDA with guns drawn to confiscate the illegal milk from Amish farmers. I'm fine with people choosing to drink Coffee-mate in their coffee, but don't arrest farmers for selling raw milk to people who choose to drink raw milk instead of pasteurized dairy. Maybe it is just me, but it ain't right. You are free to choose your actions. Are you willing to accept the consequences?

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