OMG, Do you ever get Brain Farts?

After a fun-filled Shopping trip to the Grocery Store yesterday to pick out our favorite girly necessities (mostly dessert items) for our little Girls Night Out at home. We picked out items for our famous Ice Cream Sundae & Cupcakes. We picked up Bananas, Ice Cream, Whipped Cream, Devil's Food Cake mix, cupcake icing (Sky Blue), white sugar pearls sprinkles, 16 Wishes DVD, Twinkle Toes DVD, Alvin and The Chipmunks Chip Wrecked. While walking down the grocery isles, we decided to do our usual ingredient check to avoid anything with high fructose syrup, dextrose, and other artificial ingredients - food color dyes, etc. And, of course, being the OCD-MOM I am - we realized most of the crap items had a TON of ingredients we should be avoiding especially hydrogenated vegetable oil!! After watching the movie Alvin and The Chipmunks, my daughter caught me off guard by asking me about Neurotoxicity! Since I usually only have fashion on my mind, we just HAD to google it! After hours of research, we discovered a few of our ingredients from our selected items were actually listed on BioFeedbacklearning.com's website regarding a few toxins that affect the brain and nervous system. Do you ever get Brain farts or Brain fog? This may answer a few of your questions.

Protect Your Brain from Neurotoxins: AVOID the following food additives: According to medical researcher Russell Blaylock, M.D., the following food additives can permanently damage nerve cells. Biofeedback therapists have observed that EEG biofeedback training, especially for people with attention deficits or head injury, can be substantially set back by consuming any of these, so for good results from neurofeedback, please eliminate the following chemicals from your diet. Aspartame—artificial sweetener, breaks down in the body into methyl alcohol (wood alcohol!) and aspartic acid, eventually formaldehyde. May be implicated in some cases of epilepsy. Artificial flavor Artificial food color (FD&C Blue No. 1, etc.) Monosodium glutamate (MSG; "Accent") According to Russell Blaylock, M.D., the following are Additives that always contain MSG: Hydrolized protein; hydrolyzed vegetable protein; hydrolyzed plant protein Plant protein extract Sodium caseinate Calcium caseinate Yeast extract Textured vegetable protein Autolyzed yeast Hydrolyzed oat flour Additives that frequently contain MSG Malt extract; malt flavoring Bouillon Broth stock Flavoring; natural flavoring; natural beef flavoring; natural chicken flavoring Seasoning Prepared (not fresh) spices Additives that may contain MSG Carrageenan Enzymes Soy protein concentrate Soy protein isolate Whey protein concentrate It may also be valuable to remove coffee, caffeine-laden soft drinks and sugar from the diet. Hidden sources of sugar include corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, concentrated fruit juice extract, concentrated grape, pear, or cane juice extracts, "dried organic cane juice," etc. If you suspect some food induces symptoms or cravings, try eliminating it from the diet for at least five days, then eating it alone to test its immediate effect. See: Excitotoxins, The Taste That Kills by Russell Blaylock, M.D., and Is This Your Child? by Doris Rapp, M.D. Source: http://www.biofeedbacklearning.com/excitotoxins.htm

Then I came across this other crap - to scare us even more?

Some of our most nutritious foods are laced with insecticides. It is estimated that children and adults will ingest from 40 to 70 chemicals every day with their meals and snacks. Do you eat grapefruit, melon or fresh oranges from the supermarket? If you do, you're also eating ammonium hydroxide, silicone, isopropanol, shellac, propylene glycol, ethyl alcohol and wood rosin. Do you eat tomatoes, avocados or apples from the supermarket? If you do, you're also eating dimethyl polysiloxane, benzimadazole, mineral oil, methylparaben, thiabendazole, isopropyl alcohol, and more. Sweet potatoes, onions, limes from your super-market? You're eating the fungicides botran, 2-6 dichloro-4-nitroaniline and orthophenylphenol. These "fresh" fruits and vegetables are treated with a wax which includes fungicides. These fungicides are not only on the outside, they are found throughout the food - so you will consume them if you eat the food. These fungicides are known to cause cancer, birth defects, mutations and damaged immune systems. There is simply no chemical-free food supply left. Source: http://www.dnrsite.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=TF

After researching all of this... it appears as though, we'll be going back to our RAW Diet sooner than expected, seriously! And returning the majority of the items that may have accidentally snuck into our grocery shopping cart. Seriously, though, do you even know what you people are feeding your kids? And how badly it may be affecting them?! I am pretty sure the majority of us are already pretty screwed up especially, if you grew up with family not very knowledgeable with all of this stuff. I am the one to usually educate my family on all of this stuff - so I try to do my best to make sure my daughter eats healthy and organic, preferably (which is not always the cases when eating out at restaurants or visiting family & friends). I will definitely continue to keep all of you updated with our progress on going back to our RAW diet & lifestyle. I would be happy to post recipes soon and update you with RAW Diet Potluck parties, and more! We miss our RAW Diet chefs & Yoga family! :) Please post your comments and subscribe to our blog

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