How to choose and buy your food

Let’s start with the most important thing about healthy nourishment, I will give you some good tips:

1^st:: How to choose the ingredients, fruits, meat and vegetables. First of all always prefer local food. If you can support and afford local companies or locals producers it will be really good for you. Because you know where the food comes from, and also you can stimulate the economy of your city. Another thing is never buy food from China or Vietnam, especially fish. Those countries are very polluted, and all the fish farms are dirty and the way they feed the fish it is disgusting. If you can buy wild fish or have your own aquaculture (aquaponics) it is much better. They are trying to change and improve the farms, but I still not believe that is 100% truth.

 If you guys want know more about it, I posted some articles and documentaries about this:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/14/china-agriculture-pollution-idUSL4N0XA3CO20150414#ZzLTsrUfYLAwRy9f.97

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/tilapia.asp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdoVgveiZO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3lBrqnq-Sg

2^nd:  Never try to buy cheap or be economic when we buy food. The best investment in the world is you, your health. It is better to spend your money in good and fresh food, than in a car, TV, clothes, cosmetics, whatever, when you eat well, you feel better, you will be healthier. If you spend more money in good and fresh food, in the future you will spend less in health treatments and hospitals. I believe when you combine good vitamins and proteins in your meals you can prevents many diseases. A great documentary that explains very well the healing of diseases made by feeding is FOOD DOES MATTER, find on Netflix.

3^rd:  Before you buy any products, always check it out the NUTRICION FACTS, there you can see what it is really important for you. Some have more calories but more nutrition; and also you can see how many sodium, trans fat, Lipides, that product has.

This is a Nutrition Facts from a Light Rye Bread. I've been eating this bread since I arrived in Toronto, I never ate it before in Brazil, actually I don't know if we have there, But I liked a lot.

Another thing: I really like to check, in the list of the ingredients. The ingredients list is an amount of scale which the product possesses:

Be careful which comes first, this will be the largest amount of ingredient in food, and so will come forth.

4^th: Try to grow your own food, you can save money, you can enjoy and you can eat well. Even if you live an apartment, you can make a small garden or if you live in house you can make something more creative and maybe you can have a chicken cop (my dream). Today you can learn many ways how to create your own garden by greenhouse, hydroponics, and aquaponics. The way that you choose only it is up to you, but the most important thing is: BE HEALTHY!

                 

 A 14 years old boy growing your own aquaponics!

How to create you own garden in your apto!