How to: Makeover your kitchen

You know what junk food is by now – dump the candy, cookies, ice cream, chips, soda, and anything else that comes in a packet and has ingredients on the list that you do not immediately identify as a product of nature (like an apple, a piece of fresh meat, raw almonds). You couldn't go to the store and pick up some preservative 220, humectant, acesulfame, TBHQ or monosodium glutamate, so why have them in your pantry?

It can be hard to give up the products that make your life easier – like frozen TV dinners, sugar ridden sauces, and so called ‘health’ products like crackers (MSG), most cereals (fructose), snack bars (fructose), gluten-free alternatives (read: empty calories), fruit juice (fructose). But here’s the problem – if you convince yourself to keep it, you’re denying the basic knowledge you now possess that it is junk food. How long will it be before you’re back to your old eating habits?

And while reading the nutritional information on a product for fat content, sugars etc. can be effective, the easiest thing to do is simply look at the ingredients. If there's a huge list of ingredients you don't recognise, don’t buy it!

It’s time for real change. Be brutal and start fresh. A single ingredient should be enough for you to eliminate a food. Imagine how great you will feel once your body is free of this stuff.

How to start:

• Don't go easy on your cupboard, get rid of ALL the junk
• We will show you how to quickly prepare real food, to replace what you're throwing away
• And remember, knowledge is power - read the ingredients, find out what you're putting in your body!

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