{"id":6113,"date":"2023-12-01T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2023-12-01T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T22:39:09","slug":"what-do-you-really-believe-about-healthy-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/what-do-you-really-believe-about-healthy-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a true believer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Several short musings on the role of beliefs in Meal Making Transformation. See what thoughts they spark for you&#8211;and please share in the comments!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you really believe all the talk about healthy eating? Or deep down, do you really think it&#8217;s a bunch of malarky?<\/p>\n<p>I think about that question a lot, because I see so many people eating health-destroying processed foods, like pizza, pot pies, sugary pastries, muffins and desserts, white bread and pasta, sweet drinks, and all manner of snack foods and crackers.<\/p>\n<p>That makes me sad. Time and time again, I have witnessed the almost miraculous power of simply eating well. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve spent the last 33 years sharing the tools, skills, strategies and thinking to make health-giving meals doable for all of us. But none of it is any good if we don&#8217;t believe that Food Matters.<\/p>\n<p>The research is incontrovertible that what we eat has a huge impact on our health. That evidence is no secret, which is why I have to wonder, do we just really not believe that Food Matters?<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, why would we eat things that are health-damaging and even life-destroying. That doesn&#8217;t make sense! Every other species has self-preservation as its #1 goal. How did our modern human species get persuaded to give up on that primary objective?<\/p>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/have-you-talked-to-your-cells-lately\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the recent post on how we talk to our cells<\/a>? Do we shower them generously with helpful real, whole foods or ignore their needs and shove processed foods at them?<\/p>\n<p>It all comes down to what we really believe. Maybe since that earlier post, you&#8217;ve had time to consider what you really believe. This is just a reminder to keep giving this foundational question a little thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Beliefs are such a critical part of<a href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/meal-making-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Meal Making Transformation<\/a> and the whole healthy eating journey. If you don&#8217;t really believe it makes much difference what goes in your mouth, how can you justify the time, effort and energy to make and eat health-giving food?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several short musings on the role of beliefs in Meal Making Transformation. See what thoughts they spark for you&#8211;and please share in the comments! Do you really believe all the talk about healthy eating? Or deep down, do you really think it&#8217;s a bunch of malarky? I think about that question a lot, because I &#8230; <a title=\"Are you a true believer?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/what-do-you-really-believe-about-healthy-eating\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[797,781],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-is-healthy-eating","category-supportive-thinking-for-healthy-cooking","tag-healthy-eating-beliefs","tag-new-eating-culture","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6116,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}