Giveaway: Real Food Nutrition Ecourse + Ebook Package

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1. I wish I would have learned the difference between nutritionalism and real food.

2. Something useful that would help me now!

   My oldest daughter had open heart surgery last year at the age of 4 and a half to remove a membrane that was narrowing the subaortic region of her heart and damaging her aortic valve, and while the surgery was a great success as the valve is doing great now, her heart is just naturally narrower than it should be there and that concerns the doctors. While eating healthy is always important, it will always be more important for her.

   Heart disease has been a curse on both sides of our family, one I am praying is not allowed to move further down the generations.

   I want to feed my family healthy food, and I know that does NOT mean better living through science, but am struggling to figure out exactly what it does mean! THIs seems like it would be an excellent help to us.

3. I wish I would have learned that mixing together premade items isn’t really cooking and that Chef Boy-R-Dee isn’t really a chef.

4. I wish I had been taught what real food even is. In a college nutrition class, I remember the professor saying that as long as you eat at a variety of fast food places (as opposed to eating at just 1 or 2 favorites), you would get all of your nutrition/vitamins/etc. My hubby took the same class the year before me and remembers being taught that as well. 🙁

   Thanks for the opportunity to possibly win this – I’ve had my eye on it for a while.

5. I wish I had learned about helpful friendly bacteria and harmful bacteria. I would have taken a lot less antibiotics in the past 10 years!

6. There are all kinds of things I wished I’d learned back then about health and nutrition! I remember thinking Corn Pops were as good as tomatoes because they add all of those vitamins to them and one of my friends gently trying to tell me differently. I shudder now to think I really believed that. (I mean, what exactly is a Corn Pop anyway?!) All that to say, I wish someone would’ve explained to me about whole foods and “real” food and how they are far superior for nourishing your body than any artificially enhanced boxed cereal.

7. I took organic chem I and II. I wish I had gone on to biochemistry so that I could better understand the chemical underpinnings of good health and nutrition and better evaluate some of what I read. I’m grateful to have found a blog by a chem major.

8. I wish I had learned how everything affects your body as a whole – instead of seeing your body as different part that need different treatment, seeing that how you eat/what you put on your body affects in so many different ways!

9. I wished I would have learned ways to prepare veggies that maintain nutrients and are super yummy. I’m not a veggie lover so I have a hard time eating them.

10. Everything I know I wish I had learned in highschool. Especially about Adhd and diabetes and good fats.

11. I grew up smack dab in the “fat is bad” campaign (well, I guess it’s still going on…). I wish I would have learned more about fats – WHY to NOT eat margarine. Why to eat bacon and bacon fat. I wish I had learned about the wonders of flax oil and coconut butter.

    And I wish that I had NOT developed this TERRIBLE sweet and carb tooth!

12. I wish I had learned how bad fad diets were for you in high school.

13. i wish I had learned that the grains at the bottom of the pyramid are not necessarily for best base.

14. I wish I would have been taught more about using food as medicine and it’s profound connection to avoiding disease.

15. I grew up with a mom who was into the latest fashions, including hair styles, clothing and “convenience” foods. Oh, the memories of how sophisticated she thought she was when she served frozen Stouffer’s meals, expecially the welsh rarebit!! LOL Now I’m just undoing the damage of all the additives, etc. from my body and looking toward healthier cooking and eating for my children. Welsh rarebit with grass-fed cheese, anyone?

16. I wish I would have learned so much more, but probably the thing I most wished I had learned is how destructive sugar is to our bodies. I, too, grew up amidst the ‘fat is bad’ era, and so resorted to sugar.
    This course looks outstanding!

17. I wish I had learned that McDonalds is really not food. I ate a lot of it for most of my life up until a few years ago when my body just couldn’t handle it any more. I now am gluten free due to severe gut problems. I blame my previous eating habits and what I ate for this I’m dealing with now. I’m now trying to teach my boys how to eat properly, but I feel like I’m battling an uphill struggle. They now see this sort of food, the bad stuff that is, as a treat. ugh! I want to really be able to teach tham properly. Thank you.

18. I was so lucky, my parents taught me what school didn’t. My parents cooked from scratch, used whole grains and we ate wheat bread. Still both my parents have a sweet tooth, and I never really learned an alternative to sugar (since the fake sugars were a no-no in our house, but there was never any other alternative given.)

19. When I was in school I wish I would have learned that eating real food isn’t just for “heath nuts”…that eating real food is going to effect my body, my mind and have lasting effects on the generations to come.

20. I wish I had learned that food doesn’t just effect our weight (my main concern growing up) but it effects everything from things like ADHD to our immune system.

21. I wish I would have learned about healthy fats, WHY sugar is bad for our whole beings, about healthy bacterias, and meal planning.

22. Oh, so many things! I wish I would have learned that good immunity is from a healthy gut, and that sugar is bad for you!

23. I wish I had learned that choosing convenience food is a waste of time and good health.

24. There is such a thing as “fat” thin. I wish I knew that just because I was thin, feeding my body diet cokes and candy bars for lunch was ruining my body.

25. I wish I would have learned more about how unhealthy eating habits hurt your body. Thanks for the chance to win!

26. I grew up with a family who ate well (made our own bread, used whole grains), but we still didn’t know about fat. During my teenage years I wish someone would have told me that all the Snackwells and fat free food I was eating was actually making me sick (and not helping my weight, either), and then even once I was eating healthier, I wish I would have learned the value of meat, eggs, and good fat. Fortunately, my kids will never know any different! Thanks for the giveaway!

27. Seriously, everything they taught me about food was wrong. I really hate the bad rep all fats get. Also, ditto on the gut health… and not taking antibiotics. I find it really hard to say “NO” to all the stuff the media and doctors are pushing, especially when I have a sick feverish child.

28. I wish I would have learned so much. Not to pop a pill if you have an ache/cold and go on, but look into WHY your body is hurting or out of sorts. I wish I would have learned to listen to my body (and what was normal) long ago.

    Awesome giveaway!

29. I wish I would have learned it all! But especially that healthy fats are not the evil we have led to believe and that there is a link between fertility and diet. This would have saved me so much anguish.. Thanks!

30. I wished I had learned the basics especially regarding protein and healthy fats. I was a low fat vegetarian in college and it really took a toll on my health.

31. I wish I had been told the truth about fat – that it is not the enemy – that all that processed food and sugar and carbs I was served were the enemy. I may not be suffering from diabetes now! I strive every day to improve mine and my childrens’ diets and eat closer and closer to nature, though unfortunately as a struggling single mother I cannot always make the choices I would like.

32. i really wish i understood the science behind our food, and why certain foods make you lethargic, and others give you that energy boost. and why our bodies need fermented food, and on and on…

33. I wish I was taught, well, everything truthfully…instead of the lies. I too grew up in the NO FAT era, as well as the artificial sweetner explosion. They started an awful cycle that is hard to get rid of.

34. I wish I had learned how to really eat healthy. Not from some made up chart by people working for a government that would like to keep us sick or a corporation that only wants to increase their bottom line, no matter the cost to the health of the population that buys their products. With so much MIS-information out there…..sure would be nice to have someone FINALLY explain it all in clear, simple language and with the correct facts, and whose not influenced by greed etc. Just stumbled on your site tonight and it’s WONDERFUL!!!! Keep up the good work and THANK YOU!

35. I wish I had learned about soaking and fermenting and broths and the benefits of raw milk and, well, basically everything that the Weston A. Price foundation promotes! I’ve been trying to implement these things, but preparing whole food is so much work to me since I grew up on processed foods. If I had been raised on whole food then I wouldn’t know how easy it was to use processed foods and it would be a whole lot easier to eat whole foods. Thank you so much for this opportunity to win this package deal! I’ve been wanting to take this ecourse since she started offering it, but unfortunately whole food is a lot more expensive than processed food and I just can’t afford both. I’ve really learned a lot from your blog and others like it. Thank you so much for all the great information you give us for free!

36. Oh my! There are so many things I wish I was taught about health back in school. One major thing would be about REAL foods – such as grass-fed meats, coconuts, healthy bacteria vs bad, the truth about sugar (they down played sugar not being as bad as people made it to be). But I think teaching kids the food pyramid is the worst! Also making saturated fats out to look really bad and make kids afraid of it is a huge mistake kids are taught these days!

37. I wish I would have learned the evils of low-fat and more about the good vs bad bacteria. I’m learning now so I guess that’s what counts.

38. I grew up in the low-fat/high carb/artificial sweetener era as well. It’s good to hear that others struggle with the same cravings for carbs and sweets as I do! I wish I would have learned to be more intuitive with my body. Many times, your body tells you what it needs, you just have to listen. I also wish I had learned how destructive antibiotics are on your digestive system, and body, in general. That would have saved me from a lot of my current issues!

39. When I was 24, I weighed 200 pounds. I’m now in the low 140s. And there weren’t any magic pills, unfortunately. I worked with a nutritionist and worked out on my own. I learned how to eat; I learned portion sizes; I learned about good fat and bad fat and dietary fiber… It was life-altering, learning *how much* I should be eating and *what* I should be eating. It’s just unreal how much we don’t learn at school or from our parents about how to eat. And what to eat.
    My parents still don’t know how to eat. They’re caught up in this Atkins mindset of carbs are bad, which is a stark change from the household I grew up in. I suppose, in their own ways, they’re trying… But, I hope to teach my children the right things.
    I wish I had learned about the evil things high fructose corn syrup does and even worse, what diet sodas contain. I wish I had learned about monounsaturated fats…the benefits of real, organic, food over the processed stuff that’s so cheap and easy.
    I really wish I’d learned anything other than what they taught us which was the basic food pyramid and 4 food groups. Which didn’t really teach me anything at all…

40. I wish I had learned ANYTHING about nutrition. In my home growing up we rarely ever ate vegetables, never had fresh fruit and really not much fruit at all for that matter. I left home knowing nothing about how I should be eating. When I was pregnant for our first child I thought I needed to consume 2,000 calories a day and I thought that junk food counted toward that. I also thought Hawaiian Punch counted as a fruit! Needless to say, I put on 69 pounds during that pregnancy.

    Not long after the birth of my fifth child, I began researching nutrition. I found a lot of great information and applied it. For the most part our family eats healthy, but there are definitely times when we slip up for days or weeks at a time. The lure of junk food can be strong!

41. I wish they had been truthful and not “scientific”.

42. I not only wish that 8th grade health would have taught me anything about Real Food, but that the nutritionist when I was pregnant with gestational diabetes would have taught me about Real Food! Maybe my daughter wouldn’t have the neurological problems she does IF I would have been eating FAT while I was pregnant and breastfeeding her!

43. I wish I would learned about the dangers of white sugar and learned about the benefits of honey. I grew up with many, many visits to the dentist with many, many mercury fillings.

44. I wish someone would have told me how to eat a well balanced diet. Not the food pyramid type but a naturally nutritious way to eat. What kinds of foods were actually healthy and such.

45. I wish I had learned how important good fats were to adults. My daughter was a preemie. It was then that I learned from the doctors how important fat was for her brain development. I didn’t know that it was also important for my mental health as well. My mother was really good about learning about whole foods. I can remember our diet evolving from Kool-Aid and white bread to raw cow’s milk and homemade whole wheat bread. I am thankful for her example of, when you know better, you do better. In some ways it makes me sad to see that in just a few generations we went from whole foods, because the great-grandparents were very poor, to having the money to buy Kool-Aid and formula. My mother was raised on evaporated milk. I was breastfed. I have breastfed and delayed solids with my children. So, hopefully as my children begin their families they will know even more than I did.

46. I grew up as a distance runner in the early to mid 80’s. I wish I would have learned that I really didn’t need to eat all that pasta just to race a 5k. That lead to having some hard habits to break as an adult.

    As a high school health teacher with a limited budget, I do what I can to guide students towards true nutrition even though I have to teach the food pyramid. Prevention vs treatment options is difficult to get through to teens when so many of their easy options are junk food. I’m trying to teach them “what I wish I knew then…..”.

47. i wish i’d learned it wasn’t just about calories but the the KINDS of foods we eat.

48. I wish I learned about the importance of local, organic food. I wish I learned the harmful affect of antibiotics — it would have saved me a lot of trouble, and I might still be able to eat bread if I had known. I wish I learned that just because something is sold in the market, even a health food store, doesn’t mean it’s good for you to eat. I wish I learned how to eat in healthful proportions instead of figuring it out on my own through trails and errors. Oh, so much.

49. I wish we would have learned more about how bad processed foods and sugar are for you. Even more, I’d like to have seen it taught by example in the school cafeteria ! I didn’t buy lunch often, but I remember that every day the main dish was a processed meat and the fruits and vegetables were sparse and usually canned. Dessert was very sweet brownies or cookies, jello, pudding from a mix, etc. We all learn well from example and I think one great way to get children off to a good start in loving truly healthy foods would be to have them served these types of foods in public places.

50. I wish I had learned about real foods and could have helped my Dad when he had cancer. I’m so blessed to be home schooling my daughters and teaching them the truth about food and health!

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