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Local shares knowledge about healthy eating
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By Nicole Chillino
It is no coincidence that the acronym for a “standard American diet” is SAD.
With the amount of hidden and visible hormones and chemicals American’s foods include in daily doses, it might seem difficult to weed out the good from the bad.
Kathy Loidolt will be offering a class, Eating Healthy Made Simple, through LP Learning Points in February to help inform and advise local adults, and their kids if they wish, about what foods have in them and which foods are healthy.
While she is not a nutritionist or a doctor, Loidolt has devoted a lot of time and energy to finding out what human bodies need and how we can help our bodies stay healthy. After the death of her brother-in-law from brain cancer and taking a look at the health of her own nuclear family, Loidolt set out on a mission to discover connections between what people eat and expose their bodies to and their health.
What she found would change her life and instill in her a desire to share what she learned with others.
“I had no idea I was poisoning my own children,” she said of her discoveries.
Before Loidolt conducted her research, her family ate junk food, including a lot of sugar, and whatever was fast to prepare, which was taking a toll on their health. One of her children was not growing and another was often in the hospital.
While the process of getting started on the path to heathy eating was a bit tough at first, and included stomach aches, “it changed everything in our lives,” she said. What is more, her kids like to eat the healthy foods.
Her family’s health was restored, both physically and emotionally.
“It’s all about reading labels,” Loidolt said. She added when asked by one of her sons if he could eat something, she said he could as long as he could read the ingredients list without stuttering. Her intelligent, 19-year-old college student was not able to read all of the ingredients for the item.
She said the closer people can get to eating food the way God made it, the better. However, she also recognizes that everyone “cheats” every once in a while, and said she encourages people to aim for eating healthy 80 percent of the time.
Loidolt is now committed not only to living a healthy lifestyle, but to sharing her knowledge with others and helping them to get on track to better their health.
Her book, “Shopper’s Guide to Healthy Living,” outlines the five phases she recommends to improve one’s health. Loidolt also speaks in School District 38 high schools and middle schools as well as corporations and does family pantry makeovers for people who want help getting started with eating healthy.
In her LP Learning Points class, she will be talking about how the human body works, what people are eating and what a body needs to be healthy through a fun, interactive hour to an hour and a half class.
“Eating healthy made simple” is scheduled for 6-7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at Creekside Middle School. The class is $15 plus an additional $4 materials fee payable to the instructor in class.
To sign up, which must be done in advance, or for more information, visit www.lewispalmer.org and click on “community schools,” or call 719-785-4224.
For more about Loidolt’s book, visit www.shoppersguidetohealthyliving.com.
With the amount of hidden and visible hormones and chemicals American’s foods include in daily doses, it might seem difficult to weed out the good from the bad.
Kathy Loidolt will be offering a class, Eating Healthy Made Simple, through LP Learning Points in February to help inform and advise local adults, and their kids if they wish, about what foods have in them and which foods are healthy.
While she is not a nutritionist or a doctor, Loidolt has devoted a lot of time and energy to finding out what human bodies need and how we can help our bodies stay healthy. After the death of her brother-in-law from brain cancer and taking a look at the health of her own nuclear family, Loidolt set out on a mission to discover connections between what people eat and expose their bodies to and their health.
What she found would change her life and instill in her a desire to share what she learned with others.
“I had no idea I was poisoning my own children,” she said of her discoveries.
Before Loidolt conducted her research, her family ate junk food, including a lot of sugar, and whatever was fast to prepare, which was taking a toll on their health. One of her children was not growing and another was often in the hospital.
While the process of getting started on the path to heathy eating was a bit tough at first, and included stomach aches, “it changed everything in our lives,” she said. What is more, her kids like to eat the healthy foods.
Her family’s health was restored, both physically and emotionally.
“It’s all about reading labels,” Loidolt said. She added when asked by one of her sons if he could eat something, she said he could as long as he could read the ingredients list without stuttering. Her intelligent, 19-year-old college student was not able to read all of the ingredients for the item.
She said the closer people can get to eating food the way God made it, the better. However, she also recognizes that everyone “cheats” every once in a while, and said she encourages people to aim for eating healthy 80 percent of the time.
Loidolt is now committed not only to living a healthy lifestyle, but to sharing her knowledge with others and helping them to get on track to better their health.
Her book, “Shopper’s Guide to Healthy Living,” outlines the five phases she recommends to improve one’s health. Loidolt also speaks in School District 38 high schools and middle schools as well as corporations and does family pantry makeovers for people who want help getting started with eating healthy.
In her LP Learning Points class, she will be talking about how the human body works, what people are eating and what a body needs to be healthy through a fun, interactive hour to an hour and a half class.
“Eating healthy made simple” is scheduled for 6-7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at Creekside Middle School. The class is $15 plus an additional $4 materials fee payable to the instructor in class.
To sign up, which must be done in advance, or for more information, visit www.lewispalmer.org and click on “community schools,” or call 719-785-4224.
For more about Loidolt’s book, visit www.shoppersguidetohealthyliving.com.
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