National nutrition month –
march 2021 Part 1

This month is National Nutrition Month and I wanted to bring awareness to the importance of nutrition especially our family’s nutrition by doing a blog post featuring nutrition each week during the month of March. One of the main reasons I cook from scratch is so I can control the ingredients that go into the food I cook for my family. I can substitute healthier alternatives such as coconut aminos for soy sauce and use real honey, maple syrup, or organic cane sugar instead of artificial sweeteners. 

Many years ago our family stopped drinking soda, primarily because we heard it can weaken your immune system for up to 8 hours after consumption. We now drink only water, herbal tea, and the kids make the occasional batch of homemade lemonade with real lemon juice and organic cane sugar. (Oh, did I forget to mention our coffee consumption… that shouldn’t really count, right?)

Fresh Fruits & Vegetables

We eat as many fresh fruits and vegetables as we can substiuting starchy russet potatoes for healthier white sweet potatoes. My oldest daughter can not consume raw fruits and vegetables as it causes an allergic reaction to areas of her mouth, so we supplement with whole food nutritionals to fill in the gaps. Even eating grass-fed beef, wild game meat (elk & venison), and wild caught salmon; we still can not get all the necessary nutrients that our bodies need so we need to help out our bodies where we can. They do say, “We only have 1 home during our lifetime, and we need to care for it.”

Whole Food Nutrition

We drink a protein shake once a day to get our necessary protein, amino acids, and balance our blood sugar levels. I drink one for breakfast and another one for an afternoon snack or dinner dessert to curb cravings throughout the day. The girls, however, just drink one as an afternoon snack. We make other things with our protein powder such as overnight oats, protein crepes, and protein bites.

Then we each take a multivitamin, salmon oil, carotenoid complex, and a Tre-en-en. This ensures we get the vitamins and minerals that we need daily along with all of our omegas to help with reducing inflammation in our muscles and joints.

Immune Boosting Nutrients/Supplements

We also take garlic and cal-mag ( a calcium/magnesium supplement). Cal-Mag helps us to have a restful nights’ sleep (without leg cramps for myself) and garlic helps boost our immune system.

Speaking of boosting our immune systems, over the course of the last year we have added vitamin D, vitamin C, and Zinc to build our immune systems even stronger.

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If you have any questions about the supplements our family takes, please reach out to me at hello@rhondapercell.com and I’d be happy to answer them for you as well as get you more information.

Next week we will focus primarily on children’s nutrition, so until then – To Your Health!