Green Washing~What is it?

So, you are doing all that you know how to do to keep yourself and your loved ones healthy.  You, like the rest of us, have been depending on the USDA to safe guard and protect the food sources for the country's people.  You are looking for the healthy alternatives and have made changes to Organics and "All Natural" products wherever you can. One snafu here is that the huge corporations have found ways around the regulations through massive donations to politicians and loop holes in the regulations designed to keep us safe.

When we think of good health, the discussion in our brains is usually always centered around food and exercise.  This is certainly a wonderful place to start the cornerstones of health.  Eating whole foods full of vital nutrients and physical activity; some explosive and some gentle, assist our physical bodies to enjoy a healthy state.

Let's explore some other ideas about what brings about great health. These we will add to the first two and call them all Primary Foods.

When people think of great health, they mainly think of food first, and then exercise.  What we fail to realize as a society is that our health is affected by everything around us: environment, air, water, others.  Perhaps the biggest and most unknown or overlooked factor is how our own thoughts affect our health!  Thoughts are energy.  Energy is creation in motion. 

Here we are ~ Earth Week 2011.  So much is going on to bring awareness to keeping our Mother Earth healthy or rather, bring her back to her true health, glory and beauty!  The recent energy price hikes, escalating strife in the Middle East and nuclear dister in Japan, has been a wake up call to re-evaluating our evergy sources.  WE THE PEOPLE, must get involved in this change. It is so obvious that our leaders are bought out by special interest groups and lobbiests that the awesome technologies which have been created are not being used to benefit the planet and its inhabitants

Integrative Nutrition graduates are finding their calling to help others heal in various aspects of their lives. We caught up with Kenrese Young, Motivational Speaker and Health Coach to find out more about her practice and how Integrative Nutrition's Health Coach Training Program impacted her life.

What were you doing before Integrative Nutrition?

Before Integrative Nutrition I was working as a Senior Product Development Executive. I was also actively searching for my purpose as I felt there was more I could be doing.

What led you to explore Integrative Nutrition’s program?

There’s a war going on out there, and some Philadelphia parents are taking matters into their own hands.

School lunch reform is something that we are in dire need of in this country. People know it and steps are being taken, but the pace is slow and special interest groups are doing their best to inhibit real change. But schools are not the only places where kids are eating junk.

At 310lbs with a gut the size of a beach ball, Joe Cross did something amazing. He loaded up his car with a generator, a juicer, and a camera and set off on a journey to find himself – and save his life in the process. 

He traded in his junk food and spent the next 60 days and 3,000 miles drinking only fresh fruit juice and vegetable juice in an attempt to regain balance in his life and get off the medications for good.

Healthy bodies make healthy minds, and so it makes sense that serving kids junk not only makes their bodies unhealthy, but affects their academic abilities as well. Add to that the alarmingly high (and rising!) obesity rate and the fact that overweight and obese children often become overweight and obese adults, it starts to become clear: something has to change.

1.    Our resident raw food guru and Integrative Nutrition guest teacher David Wolfe talks about getting started with detox in this short but super informative video.