FMTV Live - A free Food Matters event - continued

I have put up to posts for this live event, covering Day 1-8, here's the last two days of this event:

Day 9 was Hungry for a change, a really great documentary. I have seen this before but it was great seeing it again. They start it off like most of us do, get up to the sound of our alarm, to then have to get ready and go to work. They talk about how sugar is in so many things, and it's so addictive. Kris Carr is in this, and if you don't know who she is, she's really incredible, she has a few books and her own documentary of her journey of cancer. Jon Gabriel says something that is so true "You can eat up to 10,000 calories in a day and if your not getting the specific nutrients your body needs in a way they can digest and assimilate, then your starving on a nutritional basis, and as long as your starving on a nutritional basis your body is going to stay hungry to get those specific nutrients".  They talk about how a lot of us work behind a desk, and we eat to many calories with little nutrients. They discuss how aspartame is in so many foods, and it can cause migraines, seizures and can lead to certain types of cancers, and more. Another eye opener that they mention is about high fructose corn syrup, it comes from corn, but it's concentrated and refined so much that it's no longer healthy. For example the coca leaf is perfectly safe and healthy, you can drink it as a tea, it's not addictive or anything but if you change that coca leaf  and refine it into cocaine, then it's no longer healthy for us. So high fructose corn syrup is like snorting cocaine, and has the addictive quality to it as well. If you take sugar, is extracted from beets or sugar cane, white flour is a pharmaceutical carbohydrate, and like cocaine is extracted from the coca leaf, so all three of these are on the same category, and they cause imbalances in the body and lead to a host of problems. Then they go on in explaining how we will feel so much better by eating healthy, like vegetables that come from the garden. We need to eat a lot of vegetables, they are loaded in nutrients. This is another really great documentary to watch, very motivational.

Day 10 was a live Q&A with Jon Gabriel, he was in Hungry for a change, and he has his own book, which I have and read, and it's really good. He just created another book on visualization, and I did listen to one of his, and it works pretty well but I haven't stuck to it, and I should try it again.
He talked a lot about digestion, and that we need live enzymes to help our digestion. Live foods are more digestible, as well as fermented foods, they have friendly bacteria that we need. It's not about calories, it's about the right fat, it's the best thing you can put in your body as well as live foods (raw), and your body will lose weight naturally. He didn't diet when he lost 220 pounds, he said that as you get healthier you want healthier foods. At the beginning he kept having food cravings for pizza, chocolate and all the other junk food, but he kept adding more and more live foods, and after a while he no longer craved the junk food. Nuts and seeds need to be soaked before, add superfoods and greens, and the weight will fall off. If you have seasonal allergies, he said it's related to digestion issues, and your immune system might be low, so concentrate on digestion, best thing is to take probiotics, which you want 10 different strains of bacteria in it. Omega 3 is really good for the circulotary system, therefore good for people with heart condition, so to have things like chia seed oil, flax seed oil, and lots of greens, cold water fishes, will help a lot. A question was asked about tofu, if it's good for us, and he said it causes problems with digestion, even soy, especially when it's not organic, it elevates estrogen levels (not good at all for endometriosis) so to stay away from it, but tempeh, miso and tamari are the best, it's fermented and good for us. He also talks about how you need to take care of your emotional/stress issues in order to lose the weight, if you don't your body will always stay in a stressful state and will hold on to the weight, his book is really great at explaining this. Another great question was asked is when is the best time to take a probiotic, he said that some say that it's best on an empty stomach, before bed or first thing in the morning. but some say you need to take it with food because it helps the probiotics to get through, he said no one really knows so he does both, on an empty stomach, and then again with food. I always took it on an empty stomach so I think now I'll try both. This was another really great live Q&A, so much great information.

The next three days they will have replays of all the documentaries and live Q&A, but other then that, nothing else new from this live event. I'm really glad that I was a part of this, it was really amazing. I did ask questions in regards to endometriosis but didn't get any answers, as there were so many questions coming in every few seconds. I did sign up to FMTV online, which gives me access to so many documentations, interviews, recipes and exercises, so I'm really excited to get to learn a lot more, and I'll keep sharing more information on my blog.

I have been wanting to post a recipe that I tried out about a week ago, and it was delicious! So I will share that on my next post, but not tonight as it's getting late. Hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween!