Shawn Borup: A Sweet Life without Sugar

Shawn Borup, is the founder of Show Me Healthy Living. For three decades, she has researched, studied, and practiced the healing power of food and taught kids and adults how to eat more real food at every meal. She is a Healthy Living Coach, Certified Fermentationist®, Real Food Chef, and is living proof that implementing simple healthy habits promotes optimal health and wellbeing.Today, we are talking about using real food to promote healing.Shawn struggled with illness and asthma growing up, and when her daughter struggled with the same, she was determined to find the better way to heal.Having grown up on the standard American diet, and taken many rounds of antibiotics, Shawn decided to create a different reality for her children.Food as FuelYou wouldn't knowingly put the wrong type of gasoline in your car...don't put the wrong fuel in your body!Eliminating white sugar and white flour was where Shawn started.White flour is all starch, which can stick in the intestines and create a swampy environment.How do we change our eating habits?It takes patience.Shawn recommends swapping out your sugar for raw honey, local if possible.We need to include live, raw, single ingredient foods.Adding foods like bananas and butternut squash in baking to sweeten baked goods is one of Shawn's tricks.Sugar is so addictive that to change your habits it is important to get it out of your house.Today's wheat is not what we used to eat.  It is not sprouted, it has higher gluten, and higher starch.Our bodies don't recognized processed, GMO, foods as food, which triggers immune response and lends to autoimmunity.We need to be replenishing our systems with good foods that feed our gut and nourish our bodies.If we aren't eliminating properly and regularly, we cause inflammation.We aren't eating enough fiber.We get. half or less the recommended amount.Exercising supports our perspiration pathways and we need to be sweating.In order to heal we need to look at what we are putting on our fork.Everyone has gifts to share, and we need to feel well to do it.Fermented foods feed your good bacteria.Sour kraut, kefir, yogurtJust a little bit daily!!You can make nondairy yogurt.Go from the SAD diet to the RAD diet!Keep your energy up...avoid those sugar dips.If you aren't ready to make your own fermented foods, look for:Glass JarRaw (unpasteurized)Local when possibleWatch out for fillers! Especially in plant based milks and alternative products.Read labels!If you eat dairy...be sure to look for grass fed products.Take this 1 Step!Get refined sugar and flour out of your house and add in more real foods.