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HEALTHY LIVING
How many times have you gone to the store, picked up your groceries, and looked at the labels
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Luke Height
terrible chemicals in their cleaning supplies. Another tip that Thais uses as a rule of thumb for
her clients’ diets is to make sure that they know all the ingredients. If you can’t pronounce the word, it’s most likely not something that you know or want in your food.
Thais gives us some insight into where we can get our food from. She says, “Look for local farmers markets and people that are directly involved with the raising of the animals – they generally have better quality food.”
Especially down here on the Gulf Coast, there
are so many opportunities to support our local farmers, the seafood industry and more. Places such as Ocean Springs and Biloxi have farmers markets with wholesome foods and ingredients year-round. You can also check out Health Nuts in Gulfport for a variety of non-toxic and holistic products.
Make sure to take a look at the ingredients on your products and start working towards becoming a conscious consumer.
What
Ingredients on the products? If you have, you often see a
are in the Products You Use Daily?
plethora of words on the label that sound like a chemistry experiment. They don’t make sense for the product you’re eating, but it tastes delicious, right?
With so many of the foods and products we buy, there can be some harmful chemicals in them that if we knew what they were, we would probably avoid them. That’s why we asked local health expert, Thais Araujo, owner of Breathe, Move, Eat, a healthy lifestyle company in D’Iberville, to give
us some tips on what to look for. She says, “Having less things on the ingredients list is best practice.”
When there’s a huge list of ingredients, it’s usually filled with all sorts of junk that our bodies do not want. This goes for everything from household cleaners to cereal options. We can think of it as “less is more.” There are good brands out there, like Meyers and Dr. Bronner’s, that don’t have
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