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Lcyerra has shared a video with you on YouTube: a must see GMO Film Project Sizzler KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN: http://goo.gl/jwQ1A WEBSITE: http://www.gmofilm.com/ Today in the United States, by the simple act of feeding ourselves, we unwittingly participate in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Massive agro-chemical companies like Monsanto (Agent Orange) and Dow (Napalm) are feeding us genetically-modified food, GMO's, that have never been fully tested and aren't labeled. This small handful of corporations are tightening their grip on the world's food supply—buying, modifying, and patenting seeds to ensure total control over everything we eat. The GMO Film Project (Untitled) tells the story of a father's discovery of GMO's through the symbolic act of poor Haitian farmers burning seeds in defiance of Monsanto's gift of 475 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti shortly after the devastating earthquake. After a journey to Haiti to learn why hungry farmers would burn seeds, the real awakening of w... more
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What's it gonna be about ?

This is the question I've been plagued with ever since I started telling people about my blog. What's it gonna be about, well......it's going to be about my journey. About what I think is interesting in the health/food world and about all the different things I'll try throughout the journey. I will use this forum and the people who join it to hold me accountable for preaching health. I will share recipes, stories and articles that I think people should read and share information I think people should know. I will share tips on how I get my daughter to eat well (and by get I mean bribe & trick ;o)) how I buy great food on a budget and I will answer questions.
And of course it wouldn't be real with out the story of any failure I may encounter. Though I try really hard to eat well, I am about 30lbs over weight, I'll tell you why in my next post.

They say writing can be therapeutic, that's cool because the relationship between people and food can be very emotional (I know for me it is) so this will also be my outlet for feelings of frustration and or celebration regarding my journey throughout this health maze.

I'm going to try and get on a regular schedule to post. I thought about doing a daily blog of what I eat to share and keep my on track but I can do that on Twitter (follow me @jazzyhealth) you can see what I tweet on the side of my blog. I do have other interests so my tweets will probably be about 80% food 20% other stuff.

So I think that about covers it as far as what my blog will be about.
I will post on Sunday to let you know where I am in the maze nowadays.
Until then eat some greens and thanks for your support!

Fwd: Great 2 Minute GMO video!

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From: Institute for Responsible Technology <webmaster@responsibletechnology.org>
Date: August 4, 2011 4:32:52 PM EDT
To: lcyerra1@gmail.com
Subject: Great 2 Minute GMO video!
Reply-To: webmaster@responsibletechnology.org

Enjoy the fun new 2.5 minute GMO video Food Fight, produced by Alex Bogusky. Alex was the man behind the Truth Campaign against tobacco, and was named Creative Director of the Decade by Adweek.

Click here, and then scroll to the bottom of the page to find the new video. The top of that page also features a GMO T-shirt contest with the same Food Fight theme. So after you watch the video and send the link to your friends, please vote for your favorite T-shirt design. Or submit your own.

The chosen designer gets:

• $500 Cash
• A $500 Threadless gift certificate
  
• An iPad2, provided by EcoBonus.com preloaded with IRT's ShopNoGMO app
  
• An ebook of Jeffrey M. Smith's international bestseller Seeds of Deception (due out soon in Ebook format)
  

And the contest sponsor Threadless will sell the chosen design on its site, and give 25% of all sales to our Institute for Responsible Technology—to help us reach the tipping point of consumer rejection against GMOs.

Designs are posted for 7 days, with the final submission date of August 15th. Judging goes till August 22nd.
Help us win the FOOD FIGHT.
 
Safe Eating,

Jeffrey M. Smith
Director
Institute for Responsible Technology

 

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Where I am in the food maze...

Anyone close to me knows that I’m passionate about food and work hard to
try and maintain a healthful diet and life. And with all the mis-information out there it can be difficult.

Below are some things I'm doing to make changes for the better. I'm also often asked how I get my 7 year old daughter to eat healthy food. The answer is, it's tricky, requires consistency and is really a lifestyle choice. I've been "training" her (& myself) since she was very young and still can get
some resistance. I realize that I can't control every single thing she eats and I have learned
to let go, a little, when we are not home. But at home, there are some things that just won't make it to my kitchen - here's a condensed list: I do not purchase foods that contain msg (very tricky one), soybean oil (or soy anything), canola or cotton seed oil, foods with dyes. Breads, crackers and pastas that have been enriched, I actually try not to eat any of those anyway if I can avoid it. I stay away from all GMO foods, soy, canola oil, corn, alfalfa sprouts and yellow or little neck squash. You can avoid gmo by buying organic, as organic by "law" can not contain gmo's. You can also avoid them by limiting the processed foods you buy. I don't buy or eat anything containing these gmo foods. You can go to responsibletechnology.com  to learn more. Even when something is organic I still check for these things and won't buy them, but that is a personal choice. We also don't use tooth paste with floride in it.

 The trick is, if it’s not in the house it can’t be a choice! Going food shopping alone and being able to take your time and read ingredients without a little one begging for the cereal or cookies that are brightly colored and eye level to them helps with this. Marketing is a bitch. The companies know exactly who they're marketing to and where to put things in the stores.

Here's what's important to me
* I go food shopping 2 or 3 times a week. I buy foods with as little ingredients as
possible, and 90% of my food is organic and or local.  I shop for most of my veggies and herbs at the farmers markets. It's so important to support them!
* I cook dinner 6 nights a week!
* I cook with olive oil (not extra virgin), coconut oil (which has amazing
health benefits) & butter (real butter). NO CANOLA OIL
* All dairy and meat is grass fed and or at least organic. I actually haven't had chicken in a while because I have not found a place in the city that sells it grass fed/free range. Love eggs ( the whole egg ) get them free range room the farmers market. And all my seafood is wild caught never farmed.

* We have lots of omega 3. I sprinkle ground flax seeds in most dishes and we eat salmon
(not farm raised) and sardines weekly. I also supplement my daughter giving her krill oil
& making sure her vitamins include D.

These are some of the methods of health I chose based on my own research.
I urge anyone who wants to get "healthy" or change their lifestyle to do their own. I
figured with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, autism, digestive issues, depression and many other ailments
(a lot which are faced by many children today) at such high rates, I had to do something
different. Food doesn't just fuel the body; it feeds the brain as well. I could not rely on a
system that doesn't seem to be working to guide my family to physical & mental health.
So that's my deal, this is what i'm doing for now. 

I'm here and willing to share why I buy what I buy, what/how I cook with it and other things I do to try and be healthy. I am also open to questions and/or different information anyone is willing to share.

And the jorurney continues but kinda begins again

So my first post was Feb. 2009 and since then it been a long hard road.
My weight went up due to poor emotional eating.
I was in a rut. You know how life gets, I let my problems get the best of me and it affected my eating big time and it showed in my weigtht.

For some reason the strict eating rules that I enforced on my daughter only applied to me during dinner time, when I cooked for her and we ate together.
And when I say strict, I mean If my mother was spending time with her and took her to Burger King I would have a fit and that's just 1 example. So whenever she goes over to grandma's now I send meals, I mean maybe once in the bluest moon you could ever see, she can go.
I guess I didn't care about myself as much as I cared about my daughter. I find that's very typical in a lot of moms though, but we gotta get it together ladies!!!!

Because of my height, 5'8" and 1/2, it wasn't noticeable for a while. Now almost 200llbs, it is.
Since my weight is mostly in my stomach area, that puts me at a greater risk for heart disease. The toughest thing for me recently is learning that there is a 60% chance one of my moms arteries is cloged and her cholestoral is very high.

That's when my food interest turned into an eating foods that will help me live long interest, an eating foods that keep my body clean and  functioning properly interests, an eating foods that wont kill me even if they claim ( and I used the word claim very strongly ) to be healthy interests.
Now more than ever it's not just about losing weight but gaining life.

I've learned so much in the past 6 months. In my journey these years I've gone organic, I've tired vegetarianism and veganism and now I guess I'm at the "flexetarianism" stage.

So this is just a catch up. I'm off to wash and braid my daughters hair using all natural products and oils of course.
I will post later this week about what I thought I knew and what changes I've made recently.

Until then
Peace, love and health !!!

How my daughter changed my life

I had never paid attention to the good and bad of food. Of course you grow up knowing that fruits and veggies are good for you. I'm talking about the words you can't pronounce and the artery clogging ingredients in food. Who knew about that?

The only veggies I ate were either beans ( I'm Puerto Rican ) and corn or string beans out of the can. I got a bit of fruit from my grandmother and peaches from free lunch in the summer time.

But I had tons of other crap. From the " butter " my mom used, the free "cheese" we got or the kool aid we drank, with tons of sugar, of course. We would eat spam like it was going out of business and potted "meat" and crackers was slamming. And my favorite of all time, large cans of Ravioli, with white bread and Pepsi. I would dig in the pot and sneak more every time we had it, I loved it.
My mom the whole time doing the best she could, of course!

My grandmother would make a sweet treat called limbe, don't know if  I'm spelling it right, probably not, but it was good and sweet. It was made with sweet condensed milk ( which I would guzzle ) coconut milk, cream and sugar of course. She would freeze it and we would eat it in the summer time. Her (white) rice pudding was also full of sugar and good. She would also fry white rice and we would eat bags of it. My grandmother did always have mangoes and a fruit she called "Chinese apple" come to find out it was really pomegranate, so there goes some fruit.

Growing up I ate tons of junk food - the savory kind and the sweet kind.  I would sit on the steps of my building and eat $2 ribs tips from the Chinese spot. Sandwiches made with $1 packs of "deli meat" with gov. cheese and no name brand bread. Now and laters, lemon heads, bags and bags of chips. I'm surprised my fingers are not permanently orange from all the bags of crunchy cheese doodles I would eat. I could go on and on about the gross - good food - I ate, but I digress!
The point was we were poor and had no clue about how to eat well. Nor would we have had  the money to buy the "better food" if we did.

Fast forward years and years, I'm out of work and have ample time to fall in love with watching cooking on T.V.  I'm not cooking yet but am obsessed with watching.
Next, I give birth to my daughter, I'm over weight not by much but enough and I join Weight Watchers with my sister hoping for some help to lose weight. It was an ok experience but I stop going. I did get something from it. Even though I was watching cooking shows, there wasn't a big emphasis on health. I got eating brown rice, veggies and lean meat from Weight Watchers.

When it was time for my daughter to eat real food, I wanted it to be "good" food. She had already been drinking formula with DHA and HRA in it, which is good for the brain and eye development. I learned that by researching the best formula for infants, since she had not taken to breastfeeding. I just wanted to build on that beginning.

I took what I learned about healthy food at Weight Watchers and started learning more and even started cooking. I was now reading ingredients when I shopped.
I have a bad stomach and even had a hernia repaired. I'm pretty sure my diet had something to do with that. With the knowledge I had gained there was just no way my daughter was going to eat like I did.

So this is where my healthy eating journey starts. The little knowledge I had gotten changed me, actually scared me. From then on I started watching everything we ate.

Now I know some stuff.  I'm also learning all the time. I have a good friend who's been a chef for 20 years, another who is a new chef (vegan) and a couple of good ole foodie friends. We talk food all the time. Learning about health and food has become my passion!

The press person at my job last year came to me and said the Daily News wants to interview a single mom about her food shopping on a budget in the city, will you do the interview? I thought nobody wants to hear about what I do and buy, but she said, yes they do.
I did the article and was pleasantly surprised by the response. It wasn't all good, cause I didn't know much yet, but it wasn't all bad either. I thought, maybe I have something here.

In this blog I just hope to share what I know, what works for me and what I continue to learn with anyone who cares. 

I'm certainly no expert by any means, not a Chef or a Nutritionist. And anyone who reads my blog should definitely do their own research regarding anything I post.

So this is my intro.

Until next time, I wish everyone good health, peace and blessings

Lcyerra