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After finding out that I’m a health coach, people usually ask, “So….what do you eat?” Which is a pretty loaded question. So I’ll share with you what I ate yesterday, even though I’m calling this “What I Ate Wednesday.” Can’t beat that alliteration. Breakfast Normally I fast to promote autophogy, and because I’m just not hungry at seven in the morning. I always have 1 tbsp of coconut oil, lemon water and I’ll sip on green and milk thistle tea throughout the morning. I was feeling hungry though, so I had two pieces of pastured, local bacon. I get it at the farmers market outside of my building. It’s the best bacon I’ve ever had. Lunch Leftovers! I had some leftover cauliflower rice that was sauteed with peppers and onions. I added chili powder, cumin, grass-fed beef and some jalapenos. It was awesome. Dinner Scott and I were out and about…

The other night while I was cooking dinner and Scott was watching Monday night football, a commercial came on. It was for Crestor, a statin drug. In print across the screen read “Endorsed by Weight Watchers magazine.” Of course. It’s important to know that statins lower cholesterol in the blood. We know that cholesterol does not cause heart disease, but rather oxidation and resulting inflammation. While I don’t support pharmaceutical drugs at all, Crestor is particularly dangerous. From this Drug Recall website, The dangers of Crestor include the potentially fatal disease rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdomyolysis can start as just minor seeming muscle aches but can eventually result in death. The disease can cause severe and total muscle degeneration, which floods the blood’s minerals with other substances that can cause kidney failure. Crestor danger can occur from the resulting side effects of the drug, which can injure or even kill people. Other dangerous side effects…

Let me preface this post by saying that I used to be an avid soy eater. Having gone vegetarian at sixteen and blindly following the advice of the USDA, FDA, ADA and other agencies, I thought I was so healthy. I scoffed at meat eaters. I was such a little jerk. It’s funny, I never made the connection between my “healthy” diet and my declining health. I had rapid weight gain and loss, crazy mood swings, awful periods and horrible skin. Do I really blame soy for this? Hell yes I do! That along with my other vegetarian staples: wheat, sugar, various grains and vegetable oils. I cringe. It is also interesting to note that soy is one of our biggest cash crops, it is largely grown in the US and according to the USDA, over 94% of it is genetically modified. We know that GMO crops destroy not only our health, but also…