Cheese....who doesn't LOVE it?  We put it on pizza, pasta, potatoes, vegetables...after all, everything and anything tastes better with CHEESE!!  I think we all can agree on that.

However, let me just give you a few FACTS about the food we all love:

• Cheese is made from milk, bacteria and rennet (enzyme from the 4th stomach of a baby calf, which of course had to be killed to get the rennet).  However, because it's so "expensive" to get this rennet, industry now has genetically modified the rennet, (artificial), so you are now eating a genetically modified "food".
• 70% of the calories from chesse is FAT.
• Cheese is EXTREMELY high in calories, fat, protein and SODIUM
• Cheese causes the fat to build up inside our cells which slows down metabolism
• Cheese has a LOT of sodium packed in it .... 2 oz of cheese, tiny amount....350 mg of sodium

Even though we know these facts, why is it so hard to get cheese out of our diet?  When I started following a Whole Food Plant Based diet, I first eliminated all processed foods--anything in a box, bag, carton, package--with an ingredient list a paragraph long--then, after I had that mastered, I went on to eliminating all meat--beef, chicken, pork, and all fish--not too bad for me, although I have to say I missed meatballs for the longest time--then lastly, I had to get the dairy out of my diet which was extremely hard for me--especially cheese and yogurt--two of my most favorite foods!  But why was this so hard?

Well, after researching and educating myself on this, it turns out that there is casomorphine in cheese--this is a substance that hits our brain receptors just like cocoaine would do--it is VERY addicting.  It's so addicting, that the Dairy Industry and the US government decided to "team up" with fast food chains such as Wendy's, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Taco Bell and Subway, and come up with fast food items such as Cheddar Lover's Bacon Cheese Burgers, Cheese Lover's Personal Pan Pizzas, etc., etc., load these foods up with insanely amounts of cheese, and guess what.....consumers just can't get enough of this.  The Dairy Industry makes millions of dollars every year just by selling all this cheese to fast food chains....and of course, consumption will continually go up because everyone LOVES cheese.  

Cheese is NOT A HEALTH FOOD, much to our dismay....I know, I get it.  As I told you, it is LOADED with CALORIES, especially FAT calories, causes fat to build up inside our cells putting you at a very high risk of type 2 diabetes, (which is 100% preventable), has a lot of sodium in it, slows our metabolism down, and has casein in it which is the protein found in dairy that is an extremely high carcinogenic substance.  

Once you are able to cut cheese out of your diet, (no cheating), your craving will disappear--but you can't just eat "a little", that craving will NEVER go away.  Cut cheese out completely, no more cravings.  

If you need help transitioning over to a Whole Food Plant Based Diet to get your Health back and have more ENERGY than you ever thought possible, drop me a line....I can help you reach your goals!

Unfortunately, most Americans have absolutely no idea what is in the food supply in this country.  We "trust" the people who are in charge of keeping our food supply "safe" for our consumption, when in fact, our food supply is the cause of most of our problems.  One of the biggest MYTHS that we all grew up with is--"Dairy, it does a body good".  The dairy industry has brilliant marketing people.....

Let me give you a few facts about dairy:

• Primary purpose of milk is to cause the growth of a 60 lb calf to a 600 lb cow in 8 months
• 50% of calories come from fat (hence the rapid growth of the calf)
• Cow's milk stimulates the hormone IGF-1 which results in our little girls reaching adolensce at the age of 9-10 years old vs 13-15 years old as nature designed
• IGF-1 is one of the MOST POWERFUL promoters of cancer growth ever discovered for cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon
• IGF-1 promotes accelerated aging
• Dairy foods account for 60-70% of estrogen levels in a person's body--excess estrogen=breast, uterus and prostate cancer
• Bone strength--the more dairy a country consumes, the HIGHER the osteoporosis rates are:  the acid and protien from dairy causes our body to rob our bones of calcium to neutralize all this acid and protein--hence, calcium loss
• Countries with the highest intake of dairy have the highest osteoporosis rates
• Countries with the lowest/zero intake of dairy have the lowest/zero osteoporosis rates
• 3/4 of the WORLD's population are lactose intolerant--WE WERE NOT MEANT TO CONSUME DAIRY PRODUCTS

To make matters even worse, back in 1970 one cow produced 9700 pounds of milk; as of 2012, one cow produced 19.000 pounds of milk---HOW??  All those hormones that get injected into the cow to produce more and more.  And you guessed it--you get to drink everything that gets pumped into that cow--all those hormones and antibiotics!!  Because we inject so many harmful chemicals into our cows, Europe has banned "American milk" into their countries.

Let's talk CHEESE--who doesn't love it?  Here are a few statistics on cheese:

• It takes 10 lbs of milk to make 1  lb of cheese
• Cheese has opiate-like compounds called casomorphines that hit our brain receptors just like drugs do that keep us coming back for more
• The government accepts more than $140 million per year from the Cheese Industry which goes to Dairy Management, Inc, (DMI) whose primary purpose is to boost milk sales.
• DMI spends millions of taxpayers dollars working with fast-food chains to develop cheesy, high-fat menu items and promote them to the American public.  Example:  Wendy's cheddar-lover bacon cheeseburger and Pizza Hut's ultimate cheese pizza--which by the way has an entire pound of cheese in a single serving!! (Obesity anyone?)
• Statistics from 2016--US produces 11.8 BILLION pounds of cheese every year.

Remember all the "ingredients" in that one glass of milk?  Imagine how much of that "stuff" is in that little bit of cheese...

Everyone seems to wonder why we have such an obesity epidemic in the country as well as so many sick people....

One huge step in the right direction is to educate yourself on the foods you are putting in your body.  We cannot rely on the government to keep us healthy.  Unfortunately, no one can make money from dead people or from healthy people--but SICK people can make all kinds of industries wealthy--pharmaceutical companies, doctors, institutions that perform tests, procedures, etc.  Believe me, our  health is not the concern of "the powers that be" .  Their concern is with making money, and lots of it.

We have to educate ourselves and take back control of our health.  The silver-lining in all of this is--WE CAN GET OUR HEALTH BACK.  Most chronic diseases are absolutely REVERSIBLE. 

The first place to start is on the end of our forks..........