Change Your Diet Habits With These 10 Foods

Has your generational eating styles been detrimental to your diet and health?

Moms, working women, grandmothers; how do you make a difference in the health of your loved ones? You can make a better choice right now! You can empower yourself by saying aloud, “I choose to break my old eating styles right now.” Yet before taking action you need to know the roots of group consensus.

What Are the Roots of “Genetic” Societal Beliefs?

Think of your diet habits as a collective group of your family experiences, which turn into beliefs and are then handed down for generations, in a metaphorically similar way that genetic traits are handed down. Through your family connections, you have generally accepted eating styles and myths. Rather than based on true wisdom, they are often built upon a consensus of your group’s responses to life experiences and group wishes. In accepting and embodying diet and eating myths, false knowledge is distorted as truth and passed on for generations.

One example after World War II is reported in Ellen Ruppel Shell’s book The Hungry Gene. The chapter called “Spammed” highlights the disastrous effects of group consensus on diet Natives on a tiny South Pacific island of Korsrae. They copied the envied Americans by eating imported American fast foods. In time, their diets evolved from ones based on island-grown whole foods (fresh fish, breadfruit, mangoes and papayas which had kept their ancestors healthy for a millenium) to ones based predominately upon canned Spam®, turkey tails, sodas, and beer.

It is interesting that our nation suffers from obesity with the same diseases that most of those Pacific island children now have. Those diet consequences are abscessed teeth with the adults expecting to die in their fifties from diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease as a direct result of eating the imported fast foods. The good news is you can make different choices today.

10 Healthy Foods Under $1
But just because food prices are rising doesn't mean you can't make healthy food choices.
The good news is that many foods that are good for you are also cheap. Here is our list of the top healthy foods you can find in your grocery store for under a dollar.
1. Apples
Great for: Snacks, green salads, main dish salads, and fruit salads..
2. Bananas
Great for: Snacks and fruit salads, yogurt parfaits, and smoothies
3. Oranges (extra large navel oranges)
Great for: Snacks, green salads, and fruit salads.
4. Pears
Great for: Snacks, as an appetizer with cheese, green salads, and fruit salads..
5. Baby Carrots (in bags)
Great for: Snacks, casseroles, stews, veggie platters, and side dishes.
6. Canned Beans
Great for: Green salads, casseroles, stews, and chili. Types of beans range from 50% less sodium kidney beans and black beans to white beans and garbanzo beans.
7. Canned Tomatoes
Great for: Italian and Mexican recipes, chili, stew, and casseroles. Flavor options range from no-salt-added sliced stewed tomatoes to diced tomatoes with garlic and olive oil.
8. Lentils (dry)
Great for: Soups and stews, cold bean salads, and casseroles.
9. Pearl Barley (dry) Daily Value for calcium, plus active cultures such as acidophilus and bifidus.
Great for: Soups and stews, cold salads, and casseroles.
10. Yogurt (plain, lowfat, or fat-free)
Great for: Smoothies, yogurt parfait, dips, and dressings.

Summary
Think of your diet habits as a collective group of your family experiences, which turn into beliefs and are then handed down for generations, in a metaphorically similar way that genetic traits are handed down. Through your family connections, you have generally accepted eating styles and myths. Rather than based on true wisdom, they are often built upon a consensus of your group’s responses to life experiences and group wishes. All diet habits can be easily changed when you understand the causes. Learn the real diet tips and tool secrets for free, by going and signing up at Dr. Fuller’s website.

By: Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D.