(00:00) On this episode of the Natural Health World podcast we re going to expose the truth about fake organic foods.

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1 NHW 007: Fake Organic Food Exposed Highlights 00:00 Introduction 01:04 The natural health nutrition method 03:15 Overview 04:10 - What is organic? 05:52 Organic does not mean healthy 06:49 Natural does not mean safe and healthy 10:33 - Recap 11:37 Buy organic 13:45 Additional tips 15:26 Online community invitation (00:00) On this episode of the Natural Health World podcast we re going to expose the truth about fake organic foods. Welcome! Now let s start the show. It s time to make some time to love yourself the beautiful, natural, wonderful you. Welcome to the Natural Health World podcast with your host Carla Rose, Natural Health and Beauty Coach and creator of the Natural Health philosophy. Hi there, it s Carla Rose. Welcome to Natural Health World. Today, we re going to talk about organic food and we re going to expose the truth about the word organic. Now I want you to put yourself in a peaceful frame of mind. Right now just take a few minutes because we re going to talk about you, your health and your natural beauty. And today after you finished listening to this, you ll be feeling like the truly beautiful, wonderful, healthy and loving being that you are within. (01:04) Now you know I have always found that there is a connection between what we eat and the way we naturally heal our bodies. And I want to share with you something I personally saw with my own eyes. I was a nurse visiting people at home. And one of the people who was

2 assigned to me was an older man who had this huge open sore on his leg that would not heal. They tried every kind of ointment, they put bandages on it, they cleaned it. And after I ve been there for a couple of times, something dawned on me. And there was a woman who took care of him, she was an aide. And I said to her, What is he eating during the time that you re here? And she said, Well, I ll show you. We went to the refrigerator, she opens it up and it is full of defrosted frozen dinners. I m not kidding, okay. Defrosted, packaged, fat-filled, salt-filled, preservative-filled frozen dinners. And I thought, pfft! No wonder this guy is not getting better. So I asked him what he liked to eat. And surprisingly, he liked a lot of vegetables and natural things. He loves green peppers. He likes carrots. He likes things that were full of vitamins. So the aide was assigned to go to the grocery store and buy the things that he loved to eat. And I had to actually explain to her how to cook them without overcooking them so they would lose their nutrients. She started giving these things to this man every day and I m not kidding, within four weeks, that huge open sore that took up half his lower leg was on its way to completely healing. If it had not healed, he would have had to lose his lower leg maybe. Very dangerous. This miraculous result, this horrible, ugly, gross sore that could have caused this man to lose the lower part of his leg had healed. It was miraculous. And it was my method of connecting the kind of food he ate and the love and care that he received to his healing process. This is my natural health nutrition method to promote maximum healing of the body. And as you can see, it works. It really works. Okay. (03:15) We know a lot of things now about food, natural food, organic food that we didn t know before. And I d like to talk a little bit with you more about organic food. Because the word organic gets thrown around, it gets

3 misused and it s very important to understand the truth about it, okay. So I want to go through three things with you. One of them is what does organic mean exactly? What is that word? Okay? And secondly, when we say something s not really totally organic even if it says organic on the label, why isn t it completely organic? What is that? And the third thing I want to talk about is the word natural which you re going to see on food labels everywhere. I really want you to understand natural and organic absolutely don t mean the same thing. And why natural on the label can really fool you because a lot of things aren t will say that they re natural. Okay? (04:10) So let s talk about the first thing, what is organic? What is organic, anyway? What is that? Organic refers to the way that food is grown. Our federal government through the Department of Agriculture says that no person can sell anything as certified organic unless they have followed strict requirements, okay. The way the food is grown and handled. So it has to be in a field that has not had any pesticides in it for three years, okay. That s a long time. So you can see this takes awhile for somebody to be able to reach that achievement of calling something certified organic. Now when you look at a food, one food, let s say it s an apple. Alright. That s one food. You say that s organic? That s easy. No problem understanding that. It s when you start mixing things together that things get a little confusing, okay? So the government let s you say that it has organic ingredients in a food - Made with organic ingredients. But if you don t understand that also can mean that there are things in that combination of foods that are not organic then you re getting smarter. Okay. If 80% of the organic ingredients really are a great organic but 20% of them have pesticides and they re GMO, they could

4 still say Made with organic ingredients, okay. If they have less than 70% organic ingredients, they can't use the term organic. So that s the rule. That s how it works with our federal regulations. (05:52) The second thing is that you have to really understand that if something says organic on it, it doesn t necessarily mean that it s healthy. Because we can grow sugar, for example, in a field without pesticides but if you load up on sugar eventhough the sugar is organic, that s not healthy for you. Okay? So you don t want to get confused between the simple word organic on a label and how much you should eat of that thing. There s nothing automatic about organic meaning healthy every time or that you eat unlimited amounts of it because it says organic. If it says not really totally organic, it says organic on the label or made with organic ingredients; again, that maybe a mixture of things that are not healthy for you, that do have dangerous things in them and you really have to read those labels carefully. (06:49) And finally, let s talk about natural, okay. We ve talked about what organic means. We ve talked about things that have some organic ingredients in them. Now we re going to get after this idea of natural. Everything you pick up in the grocery store that s in a box or a package or a can, they love to put natural on that because people want to do what s natural. It used to be before the food manufacturing industry had come up with so many concoctions that they mix together with chemicals and put in boxes and sell to us, you know, if something said natural, it probably was. I mean when my kids were little if I went to the store and I bought something that said natural, I would read the label and there might be three things in there; it was natural. Now, things have changed. You go to the store and you walk down the middle of the store, most of the things are in packages and boxes and cans and have labels on them. And they love to market with the word

5 natural and it may not be natural at all. Natural what? Natural chemicals? Please! This is very, very risky thing to believe if you look at a label and it says natural. Natural does not mean healthy. Natural has no federal regulations. It s not like organic where it has to be certified by the government before they can use it. Anybody can call anything natural. It can be outright dangerous for you, okay? It can be made from a plant and that the plant is grown with pesticides. So the word natural does not mean safe. I m going to help you understand that if it says natural, you have to take that with grain of salt and look a little deeper. Turn the box over, turn the label to your front and start reading it. How many things are in that food that s labeled natural? How many ingredients in there have names that you can't pronounce or do not recognize? We re going to be talking about all those things in food labels in another podcast. But for now let s just say if you have never heard of it, if it doesn t make sense to you, if it sounds a little weird eventhough the front of the package says natural ; don t buy it. There might be things in there that are not safe for you to be putting in your body. If you want to love your body, you have to honor your body. You have to honor your body. You do that by treating it with the utmost respect and care at all times. That doesn t mean once in a while or when you re feeling good. It means all the time. When you go out and go grocery shopping, if you re like everybody else, you ll probably go to the supermarket. If you re lucky and you have a farmer s market near you, wonderful because a lot of people who sell their goods at farmer s market are certified organic. If they have not made it to the full 3 years of growing that food in a pesticide, artificial fertilizer free field, at least it will say no spray. Okay, maybe that s close enough. It s certainly better than a fake label that says natural or a fake made with some organic ingredients.

6 Just be careful. Think about caring for yourself. Your body is a temple. It houses your spirit. It houses the rest of you that makes you, you. And that beautiful person that you are deserves to be treated the absolute best way possible all the time, every time you go to the store, every time you choose a food, every time you pick something. Not because of the label saying something on it that might be doubtful but because you deserve the very best nurturing that you can find. Okay? (10:33) So just to go back over once again, organic refers to the way that food is grown and handled or processed. It has to meet strict government requirements to be certified as organic or it s absolutely against the law and the government will take it off the market. If something says made with organic ingredients, okay. But you had better read the things that are not organic in that food combination to be certain that those things are not dangerous also. GMO, artificial sweeteners, additives, colors and dyes, that sort of thing; not organic, okay? And finally, referring to the term natural. Of course, we want to eat foods that are natural. But beware of food manufacturers who throw that fake label that has no regulations around it on anything and everything trying to convince you to buy it. If it s natural, you will see that because it is made with things that you can recognize, understand and pronounce. Okay? (11:37) There is a huge increase in the amount of food in our grocery stores now that is certified organic. Thanks to you, thanks to you, thanks to the consumer. People are demanding that these massive conglomerates of food manufacturers, the biggest corporations in our country, that have dominated what we do with our food and they do it so that they can make a profit; they are having to make room for organic on our shelves and in our markets all over the country. And it s a wonderful thing.

7 I encourage you to think about it. If you have a choice between an organic apple and one that isn t, the difference might be a few pennies or maybe they re going to be the same price. The more consumers gather together and insist and request more organic food, the more the price is going to drop. Now when I had kids and was raising them and was trying to keep track of the pennies, I remember deciding not to buy organic eventhough I knew some of the foods I was buying have things in them that maybe weren t good. But if it costs a dollar more, I really didn t think I could afford it. And now when you look at large chains supermarkets, you re going to see those prices are dropping. Back in the day when there was such a big difference in price between organic and non organic foods, you know, I would let price stop me. And I know that that s a mistake, okay. That was a mistake then and it s a mistake now. It was a mistake not to buy organic even if it costs somewhat more. And it did cost more. It was a significant difference. Fortunately, right now, the price difference between organic and non organic food is diminishing. It s decreasing by the day, I think, because there are so many more people who are aware as you are becoming aware. That it is worth every penny to buy organic. You don t want to be putting pesticides residues into your body just because something is a few pennies less, okay. You don t want to be having GMO and altered foods in your body just because it s cheaper for the manufacturer to make it that way. (13:45) Alright, remember that you deserve the very best of nutrition to honor the person you are, to keep your mind healthy, your body healthy and your spirit healthy. You need to always think about being a loving person first of all to yourself. Love yourself. Love yourself with the right food. Honor your spirit that s trying to be encouraging all the time from within. I tell you when I come home from the grocery store and I had filled up the bag with organic food, I feel great. And feeding my husband all these good food for him, he s

8 not paying attention but I m paying attention and it feels wonderful. If I make my smoothie in the morning and I m putting organic strawberries and organic bananas and organic other things into that wonderful power smoothie that I love, I feel wonderful. And by the way, especially if you are an active person, it is very important to start your day with some protein. So if you can find organically sourced protein powder that is wonderful. I take a scoop of protein powder. I put it in the blender. I use ice to keep it cold because it tastes better cold. I use a cup of almond milk. I use a couple of heaping tablespoons of organic, nonfat Greek yogurt. I use fresh fruit which can be a banana and a few strawberries or raspberries, these high antioxidant foods that taste so good. I throw in a handful of organic spinach or other greens mixture. Blend that baby up and drink it down. And that fires me up and keeps me going all day long. And I hope you ll try it. (15:26) Well that s it today from Carla Rose. I hope you ve enjoyed listening to this podcast as much as I enjoyed making it for you. If you like this episode, you ll absolutely going to love our online community. When you join, you ll get the tools, care and confidence you need to live a naturally healthy lifestyle and love your body from the inside out. Now think about this, if you re experiencing unusual weight gain or you re having a problem losing that extra weight; if you re feeling exhaustion and fatigue; if you re under constant stress the way so many women are; if you re having trouble sleeping; if you have anxiety; and you just know generally, you re not as healthy as you want to be, I d like you to consider becoming a member of the Natural Health World community. Just imagine yourself having more energy, thinking more clearly, feeling stronger. Imagine yourself sleeping better, not feeling bloated, unhappy and unfit, finally curbing those food cravings. Imagine having your clothes fit better and looking beautiful. Think of hearing

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