Dr. Nandi: Be Your Own Health Hero
Shawne Duperon: Nutrition is a big one for you…
Dr. Nandi: Let’s talk about the consciousness the world has about food. I believe in the concept of food as medicine. If somebody gives you a bag of pills and says here, take it, nobody that I would know would just take the pills and just put them in their mouths without even asking what is it, yet we do that with food every single day. They put something in a bag, make it colorful, and no matter what is inside of it, we put it in our mouths. And that has to change, and people are understanding more and more that the diseases that we have and some of the problems that we are having that we never saw before. I have a woman that saw me two days ago. Her 25 year old daughter has breast cancer, and it is not like breast cancer is new. But the 25 year old, the 30 year old, the 28 year old, the 39 year old, this is what’s alarming.
Let’s look at our food. Number one, can we pick foods that are basically not processed? Try not to eat something that’s in a bag, that’s put in a package. Try to find food that you prepare yourself or is prepared in a way that you know is something that you would approve of.
Number two is there is this whole notion about GMOs. GMO just stands for genetically modified organism. Simply put, they take a seed and basically the DNA of that seed is mixed in with the DNA of something else, whose only purpose is to grow. That seems like a good idea because there are places in the world where you can’t grow food. However, we don’t know what the consequences are. Can we until we have better information get away from foods that have GMOs in them and have non GMO, organic foods? I think that’s a really good idea, and I am hoping that will be able to solve some of the health problems.
