Vani Hari, better known for his “Babe” online personality, knows first -hand how to altering one can change the life and health of a person for the better.
When I was young, Hari was diagnosed with a litany of health conditions and had to eliminate his appendix, he said. While recovering from surgery, Hari began studying nutrition and examining what he was eating.
After eliminating certain things from his diet, starting with artificial food dyes and processed foods, Hari's health took a turn, he told Fox News Digital. (See the video at the top of this article).
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“I left every prescribed medication. My asthma disappeared, my eczema disappeared and began to look like a different person,” he said.
“All the inflammation of my face and under my eyes disappeared. And the people around me who grew up with me could not believe the transformation.”
Vani Hari, a food activist who supports the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the secretary of the HHS and writes under the name of “Food Babe”, shared with Fox News Digital some easy ways that people can eat in a way healthier. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Today, Hari maintains his blog “Food Babe”, has published several books and passionate to improve the United States food supply. Recently several rows appeared behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his hearing as Capitol Hill as nominated for President Donald Trump for HHS secretary.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Hari, based in North Carolina, shared the following tips on how others can start the health and well -being trip that she suffered years ago.
1. Read the ingredient labels
“You have to understand what you are eating,” said Hari. “And if there is an ingredient there you don't understand, go looking for it.”
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It is key, he said, to “understand what you are putting in your body.”
She added: “Once he understands that most chemicals that are being placed in processed foods are there to improve the final result in the food industry and not improve their health, it will automatically begin to make better decisions.”
2. Take 'property' of your food
Cook at home, Hari advised, to avoid accidentally consuming something processed or containing an ingredient that would otherwise be avoided.
“Recover that property of your food and start cooking at home,” he said. “It really understands the elements you are putting in your body.”
Cooking at home ensures that you know exactly what you are eating. (Istock)
In addition, when cooking at home, people are not “subcontracting to the food industry” for their choices of what to eat.
3. Look for cleaner alternatives
It may be difficult to get rid of favorite foods, but there are alternatives, Hari said.
For breakfast cereal, HARI advised to buy a “natural version” of an existing cereal, one that does not contain refined sugar or artificial ingredients.
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“That would be a first step,” he said.
Another article that is an easy exchange? French fries.
Buy a brand that “does not have the MSG and artificial food dyes,” said Hari.
And to satisfy a fast food craving, Hari suggested making fries at home with beef ray or an air fryer, something he does with his own family.
“They are delicious,” he said.
4. Keep simple things
“Simply choose real food, food from an ingredient, as much as possible,” said Hari.
“Today there are so many exchanges available to pass from the very processed ingredients to which we are accustomed, to better brands for you,” he said.
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Hari hopes that the food industry in the United States will soon be forced to comply with similar regulations that in other countries.
“Americans are fed up.”
“I think the food industry has realized that they will no longer be allowed to use ingredients that they do not use in other countries,” he said. “Americans are fed up.”
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The Americans said, “they want the same safer ingredients that these food companies have already discovered how to do.”
5. Buy around
Go to the local farmers market, Hari said, and be attentive to certified organic foods.
Farmers markets can be a good source of organic products. (Istock)
With organic foods, “you are eliminating hundreds of chemicals that are allowed in conventional foods,” said Hari.
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“There are more than 10,000 chemicals here in the United States, and there are only a few hundred in other countries,” he said.
