Hemp

When you begin a journey to good health, finding the swaps for your favorites is essential because you should never feel you’re missing out. Raw chocolate for commercial, nicecream for ice cream, chocolate dipped raw cookies, crackers instead of biscuits, chia jam for sugar filled store-bought jams, nut mylk for dairy and the list goes on… You need to have the options you can eat knowing there is a punch of nutrition in each bite. It’s so easy to grab a chocolate bar or a bag of crisps if we’re hungry, instead of reaching for something healthier, that we don’t notice how often we do it. If the snacks are there, we’ll eat them! But they can be full of hidden nasties, like saturated fat, salt and refined sugar. Some things you should just not put in your mouth. From artificial flavors and colors to words you’d need an advanced degree in chemistry to pronounce (are you sure that’s food?), there are thousands of ingredients making their way into your food that are simply not, strictly speaking, food. And in time, too much of these can lead to serious health problems. Science has now shown that sugar in your food, in all its myriad of forms, is taking a devastating toll on the health of the population and is leading to wide spread obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, liver disease and a host of other closely related illnesses….

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