Giveaway: Real Food Nutrition Ecourse + Ebook Package

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1. I wish I’d learned different things, like international foods. I really don’t remember having health ed or anything of the sort.

2. I wish I had learned more about good fats…and also the danger of counting calories vs. wholesome nutritional food

3. I really don’t remember learning anything about nutrition, good or bad, in school. I did learn a lot just by shopping in a grocery store, not good nutrition, but what the boxes told us. I wish I had known how to really read the labels and not just accept what they wanted me to think.

4. I wish I’d learned that saturated fats were good for our bodies.

5. When I was in school in the 1970’s I was taught through filmstrips, cute little cartoon handouts and by my well-meaning teachers that pre-packaged food was the ultimate in health-food because it was all based on the wonders of SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY and that food scientists had put all the nutrients I would ever need (from ye olde four food groups) into the food in the cans, boxes and plastic wrap on the grocery store shelves. My third grade teacher actually said to me that it was a WASTE OF TIME to learn to cook. . .that cooking was old-fashioned and unnecessary for modern people. My Snoopy lunch box typically had a thermos full of Kool-Aid, a little package of Fritos, a pbj and a Twinkie and I was proud of my healthy lunch. (Now I am wondering how I lived to reach adulthood!)

   I so wish I had EVER had any training about traditional foods and food preparation so that I would have had seeds planted in my mind that foods and methods that have stood the test of time were worthy of my efforts in buying (or growing!) and preparing for my health.

   Down with Twinkies!
   Holly

6. I grew up with an Austrian mom so traditional foodism ran thickly through our veins, but I did not know the value of it. My mom always told me “don’t eat margarine. it’s not real food’. She didn’t know why, but she just knew it was pseudo food. I wish health class had taught me the value of what she said. Kids are so influended by their peers and what they learn in school that I thought my 80 year old, Alps-climbing relatives were just primitive and ignorant. It was the other way around! It was not until about 8 years ago when I was pointed in the direction of Dr Mercola by a health minister did I find out the old way of doing things like my relatives do them is the BEST way!

7. i wish i had learned about the body as a whole, and that what i put in my body would have an impact on me — for example, if i was feeling foggy in class one morning, unable to concentrate, it might be because i had boxed mac n’ cheese the night before. i wish they taught us that eating living, fresh foods would help us feel alive and fresh.

8. I don’t remember learning much about nutrition at all. I was plagued with low blood sugar and allergies. Most of what I have learned has been self-taught by reading and researching. I am so thankful to be teaching my children how to eat real food!

9. I don’t remember learning anything about nutrition in school either. However, I took a strong interest in it at an early age. I was misguided along the way several times but so glad to be eating REAL food today!!

10. I wish I had learned anything about real nutrition!! I wish I had learned that eating real foods like whole milk and bacon were good for me so I didn’t feel so guilty each time I ate them! I wish I had learned that because a package said low-fat it in no way meant it was healthy for me! Finally, I wish I had learned how much better traditional foods taste than a quick meal from a fast food restaurant!

11. I wish I had learned that some fats are good for you! And, that sugar is the enemy! 🙂

12. I grew up in the country in the 40’s & 50’s. Mom taught us about real food. I was never taught anything about food at school, even in home ec, except how to make jello. After I left home I listened to, and believed, all the garbage the FDA & USDA wanted us to hear. Then in my 30’s, 40’s, 50’s & 60’s, I had serious health issues. Finally sought help from a Naturopathic Dr. and the ball started rolling up hill. Now ONLY organic foods and meats come through the door of our house. We joined a CSA where I have helped with many of the chores, so I know how that food is grown. I have tracked down and now buy all my meat from a local source that handles ONLY natural, grassfed bison, beef, pork, poultry and elk who have never been given antibiotics or fed parts of other animals. I eat NO gluten or dairy. I feel better than I did in my early 50’s & I am getting close to 70. Have very FEW digestive problems. Wish I could make the rest of our extended family “see the light”. Some of the younger ones are sort of getting it. The older ones think I am a heath nut kook. Their lose!!

13. I wish I would have learned ANYTHING about nutrition. The biggest problem was that my family was so uneducated that we ate garbage and then my parents split when I was ten. It went from bad to worse as I grew up on Oreo’s and Pepsi for breakfast (on the days when I didn’t have time for tons of sugar-laced cereals or Pop-Tarts!).

    I was a sick kid and by high school I missed as many days as you could and still pass. I became disabled when I was 24 and ended up with advanced cancer. That led me on a steadfast trail to find answers and most of them were in healthy nutrition. I am presently becoming certified as a Health and Wellness Life Coach and also just been given a ministry teaching troubled teens with eating disorders about food and nutrition. I would love to share your instruction as part of my curriculum!

14. I fortunately was raised on a bit of a healthier note but wish I had the same passion back then to stick to being super healthy so that I don’t long for those “naughty” treats. 🙂

15. I first learned about omega-3 FAs in university in 1999. As a biology student, I took a course in Nutrition not because it was required, but because it seemed like something a person bound for a medical profession should do. I found it fascinating; there was a whole range of nutrients, essential to the proper functioning of our brains and bodies which absolutely no one knew anything about at the time, outside of a tiny segment of academia. I thought: This is crazy! Why is no one telling the public about this??

    What I wish I had learned in elementary and high school about health was ANYTHING AT ALL about nutrition. It’s pretty disgraceful that not even a university degree in biomedical studies (at a fairly prestigious medical and veterinary teaching university in Canada) required the study of basic human nutrition, let alone high school; the best they id there was to briefly discuss the Food Pyramid in the most dry, boring way possible onto the short “health” segment of Physical Education classes, or maybe in Home Economics.

    As a result of the “Great Recession”, many people have suggested that high school students should be forced to complete a required economics class because North Americans are so evidently ill-educated about basic money-management. The same thing can be said about basic nutrition.

16. I wish I would have learned just how good saturated fats (or any fat for that matter!) are for our health, and how dangerous restricting fat and calories is for health and well-being. I spent far too long restricting fat and calories and really damaged my body…I could have felt much better and been much healthier so much sooner!

17. I wish I’d learned how to cook, what it means to eat seasonally, what foods “go together”, that fresh vegetables actually taste delicious (as opposed to canned)…and how to raise a garden with fruit and veg.

18. I wish I would have learned which foods were truly nutritious and real vs edible junk that masquerades as real food. Although my mom occasionally fed me liver and egg yolks as an infant and veggies and seafood as a growing child, I was also fed daily junk that my mom thinks is healthy, such as tons of tofu, white rice, bread, powdered milk, soy milk, canned Spam, condensed milk, store-bought and even homemade sugary cakes and pastries, etc. No wonder I developed lots of cavities and health problems even though I always brushed my teeth diligently and ate tons of foods that I was mistakenly raised to believe was healthy.

19. I wish we were taught more about whole grains, I also wish my parents fed us more of the whole grain foods rather than all the processed stuff. I do hope my children can come to fully appreciate fresh, wholesome, good for you food.

20. I wish I had learned about staying away from processed foods.

21. I walked through my youth buying into all the weight loss fads and trends, caring more about the way I looked versus the way I felt or what was really in the food I ate. I don’t think I ever took a “nutrition” class til’ college – and looking back that was kind of a joke. It feels so great to eat truly healthy, real foods now, and I love nourishing my family with real foods too!

    Thanks for this give-away!

22. I wish I would have learned that low fat diets are not the healthiest way to eat!

23. We never studied nutrition in school. I wish I would have learned the value of real food and that it is so much different than the packaged convenience food we were fed in school. Would love to go through this course!

24. I wish I’d learned that carbs and sugar and low-fat were my enemy not my friend.

25. Hmmm I wish I had learned that we’re responsible for our bodies and not to buy into any fad diet/food pyramid/etc that a giant government puts out there!

26. I don’t remember learning much in health, although the food pyramid stands out. I think as much or more harm was done by the teen and “health” magazines I read. A course like this will be wonderful for counteracting society’s flawed education of “health.”

27. Like others above, I wish I’d learned the health value of saturated fats. I’m still mentally fighting to believe in them when others talk them down!

28. I wish I had learned that there are different ways to get nutrition. That eating is blissful, and for living, not just survival. I wish that I had known that my body is a powerful, beautiful, wonderful machine, and that good, nutritious food is not a chore, it’s fun and is an amazing mood-booster!

29. I do wish I was taught about REAL food and how to make all kinds of veggies.
    Greens were something we never ate. Now, knowing how to prepare them they are wonderful and so healthful. I wish I was taught how to make a meal using
    what we had on hand too like veggies from the garden etc. and not having to rely on boxes of processed food.

30. i wish that i had learned no matter how enriched a food was, it’s still a rip off and far inferior to the food in it’s unadulterated state

31. The horrible ingredients in junk food and the knowledge that real food is GOOD!

32. I wish I would have learned that fat is essential for your health and there are many sources of good, nourishing fats–it would have saved me not only from years of flavorless food, but also from serious medical conditions that resulted from me being underweight.

33. I wished I had learned really how simple health can be and that I do know all the answers if I really stop and listen.

34. I wish I had learned that vegetarianism is a misguided fad, and really isn’t good for our bodies at all.

35. I wish I had learnt more about the way my mother and her mother ate. Using all the traditional foods and fats. Unfortunately my mother was influenced by the medical profession saying that all the Real foods were not good for you.
    My daughter is about to do a hospitality class at school and I know that they will be teaching her all the “so called” correct ways to eat (ha ha). Following the Food Pyramid etc.
    I would love her to follow and learn about Real Foods.
    Penny (Australia)

36. I wish that I had been taught about empty calories and that processed foods are essentially stripped of all nutrients. I never considered drinking 8 glasses of juice a day versus water was stacking up the calories. Why, I don’t know. I just never thought about it.

37. I was always taught “fat free” is better…I wish I would have known about “good fats”!

38. I wish we had learned more about the local farmers and what they produced. An education on the local area and state food productions would have been much more useful than the history of cotton doctored by historians and naysayers.

39. I wish I had learned about real food and how to prepare it…it would of made things so much easier! i wasnt taught anything about nutrition what so ever…i am definitely determined that my children will know all about what they are eating and why they are eating it/\.

40. I wish I had learned about the impact of sugar and caffeine…there seemed to be no awareness at all of the effects of caffeine on children and why it would be a good idea to limit caffeinated sodas and whatnot. Along with that, I wish there had been more education about the danger of sugar in regards to blood sugar fluctuations, energy level and weight management.

41. I guess what I’m learning now, growing up with a dad who survived a heart attack at age 30 & a mom who was very concious to feed him & us all the “correct” things-we lived on very little salt, low fat milk, margarine, crisco, egg beaters (and very few), low fat, low calorie everything – thank goodness not “diet” or “sugar free” so much. So I think it is just re-learning – which has been pretty easy for the most part as those things just didn’t seem “right” to me & I always desired the “fat & real” stuff……great giveaway by the way!

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