EP #5: Food that is REAL Food and Food that is NOT

MyNaturoWellness A Holistic Healthcare Perspective

Welcome to the, my natural wellness podcast with Dr. Michelle, Trias giving you your holistic healthcare perspective. Hey there, this is Charlie, the producer of the show. And once again, we have Dr. Michelle with us, Dr. Michelle, how you doing?

Good. Good. I'm doing great. How are you?

I'm doing great. I'm jazzed about this because, and, and I'm not even in your field, but I hear this question and I, you know, walking through the supermarket, God knows, you know, some of this stuff. I, I don't know, it's it just, um, where do they find this stuff that they package for us?

I know

Air quotes, wholesome and nutritious and all that, you know, stop. So anyway, for our listeners, topic is food. That is not food. What the heck is food Michelle?

Yes. I think this topic is so important because we, we think that food is, you know, what's in the grocery store and we think that we have this kind of conception of food. It's like, well, if I'm hungry and then I eat something and then I'm not hungry check that's food. Yeah. But, um, if you look at the definition of food in the dictionary, it says that it has to be, it has to promote life and growth and it has to be nutritious. So two things, it has to promote life and growth and it has to be nutritious. So if it doesn't meet those levels, those standards, then it's really not food fit for the consumption of a human. And so a lot of things in the grocery store meet the first, you know, the one that says is it nutritious? You know, there are a lot of foods that are, that have nutrition in them.

But more and more foods do not promote life and growth. They promote cancer and diabetes and high glucose promote inflammation, which causes a whole host of other problems. They deplete serotonin levels in the body, which causes problems with mood. So what is food? What is not food? Food, food must be nutritious and it must promote life and growth.

Well, you know, listening to you explain that it brings back memories of when I was a kid. And I, I still remember. Yeah. God knows why, because what, why was I even paying attention? But breakfast, cereal, you know, all about, you know, this fun food and breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Like, you know, yeah. Air quotes, garbage. Um, but there was this uproar, you know, from, from whomever that said, oh my goodness, what are we feeding our children? So the smart serial company said, oh, no worries. We'll just in inject, you know, all these nutrients into the cereal. Right?

Yeah.

So you're still eating the same garbage. It just now has vitamins and minerals.

It has fiber, it has vitamins, it has minerals. And so it's like, you know, that kind of goes into some common food misconceptions. Right. But yeah, I mean food, that, you know, and I tell people a lot, like don't shop in the middle shop on the outer edge of the grocery store, because that's where the food is. That's alive. Everything in the middle is dead.

Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's great advice. So much easier to shop that way too. I mean, you get in and outta the supermarket like that, you know,

I know it is much easier and it's cheaper, you know, like those, those foods used to be less expensive. And now those, those foods that are packed with preservatives and garbage are, are getting more and more expensive. So yeah, it's, it's a better way to shop is around the, around the edges.