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    Do Cheese Puffs Grow on Trees?
    Do Cheese Puffs Grow on Trees?
    Do Cheese Puffs Grow on Trees?
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    Do Cheese Puffs Grow on Trees?

    By Dr. Dani Torchia, PhD

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    Your mindset, physiology, spirit, knowledge about food and emotional motivators line the pathway to your happiness and health and all contribute to Do Cheese Puffs Grow on Trees? Your Health, Your Body, Your Life. This book is designed to help you understand how your health and mind-set work together and how knowledge and insight about foods, your mind and body can help you make choices that improve your whole experience in life. A joyful life of eating for health and eating for enjoyment without guilt is freeing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGinger Marks
    Release dateJan 27, 2021
    ISBN9781950075379
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      Do Cheese Puffs Grow on Trees? - Dr. Dani Torchia, PhD

      This Is Not a Diet Book!

      Diets (dieting, deprivation) do not work long term and they are not realistic as a lasting lifestyle for eating. So, which things do work for the long term? Having the complete and fabulous awareness of who you are, what’s making you tick and recognizing your own relationship to food are all important. Food is necessary for survival, so learning to have a satisfying, healthy relationship with food is essential to your success. There are many extreme ways to lose weight, including fad liquid diets, liposuction, stomach stapling, plus the traditional method—starvation. It might be good to avoid short-term, painful, food-deprivation extreme diet choices. Instead, embark on a journey of self-discovery and knowledge about food and energy that are easy to process. If surgery is necessary, that’s okay too, but six months of self-care and nutrition counseling is encouraged first! Gentler more lasting approaches include understanding the physiology between your brain and your gut, recognizing chemical and food reactions, as well participating in group support with like-minded people/friends and licensed therapists, nutrition experts and counselors. For some, opening up to spiritual perspectives has been transforming. An inclusive approach to your body and mind awareness, combined with information about what works long-term, will create a successful and exciting new path to Inspire Your Health for life!

      Happy/Grumpy heads

      Keep the Happy Folks and Avoid the Grumpy Heads

      Be with happy and like-minded people. Grumpy people who hang around other grumpy people have a hard time making the leap to happiness. Forget those critical grumpy heads and find your joy.

      What’s in this book?

      Conflicting dietary guidelines can make a person give up on reading about health. Two bottom lines are: Is what you’re eating working for you? and Can you keep on going. What is tasty and keeps you healthy? What does the long-term research say? Do what makes sense and works for you. It doesn’t matter what trending book you read ... utilize scientific data that demonstrates longevity and health as it incorporates the things that make sense in your life, values, lifestyle and beliefs. If you don’t feel well, find the way to renewed energy. Just because something seemed good for Joe Schmo doesn’t mean it’s right for you.

      Be honest with yourself and, by all means enjoy the process of discovery! Think of new and exciting changes as lifestyle choices that provide health and joy, rather than resorting to extreme makeover tactics or temporary deprivation diets. Life is full of twists and turns, stressors and gifts. Choose Your Health, Your Body and Your LIFE! Just like the book’s title. Choose what helps you enjoy health and life to its fullest, no matter your circumstances. Surround yourself with kind, encouraging, helpful, health-minded people. Your surroundings matter; choose kind people and be kind. Choose laughter and laugh. Enjoy your life! No matter the hardships, look up, follow the lead of those who have struggled and keep going no matter what.

      The Psychology of Eating and Your Mind Set

      What is YOUR SECRET to HEALTH?

      There is and has been a lot of hoopla regarding fabulous, yet at times, confusing weight-and-health data! When it comes to health, learning how to navigate your nutritional choices is the first step toward your lifelong goal. I want to share my 23 plus years of clinical and life-experience so you will be inspired to believe in yourself and have the belief that you will reach your health goals. I have put together tips and tools on food and body while never emphasizing going on a diet. Most of us know that the whole diet cycle is more of a Hamster-wheel experience, that leaves many disillusioned and unmotivated. Instead, all these pages are meant for YOU: This is about you. This book reminds you to listen to your body and to pay attention to the changes that work for you and be okay with those that don’t.

      Having energy is a great motivator to help your body and soul feel free and to help you continue to do the things that inspire you: Youthful, Optimistic and Unstoppable. It may sound corny, but it’s true. Why not imagine the best for yourself? The greatest motivator is having energy. With energy, you feel fantastic. When you feel energized, you are able to do things in life that inspire you and keep you motivated. One activity builds the next ... every step you take toward health-minded lifestyle choices and activates your desire to keep doing the things that inspire more well-being.

      Cheese Puffs Don’t Grow On Trees ... Or Do They?

      Cheese Puff tree with confused squirrel

      Why did I decide to write this book series? Let’s take a trip back in time to that turning point! It was a typical Southern California morning, and I was ready to joyfully tackle the day’s sessions at the Southern California community clinic where over 18 years of my life had been dedicated as a clinical nutritionist and where I was working throughout my PhD program. When I looked at my schedule, every appointment from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Electronic Health Record was booked: I saw my list of 13 patient names. I gulped down my green tea, took a deep breath and started. Hours passed as I educated a mix of hesitant, disbelieving, and eager patients on health goals, reviewed lab results and doctor’s recommendations to inspire them for long-term success. I felt good, yet there was an air of something about to happen—I just didn’t know that it was going to be a creative and life altering moment!

      It was 2:00 p.m. when my book-inspiring patient arrived. We will call her Rose. She was a menopausal woman struggling with her weight at nearly 280 pounds. She was missing most of her front teeth due to life’s tribulations and this high-school graduate had come to depend on her daughter for financial support and so ended up at her non-profit community health center.

      Hello, welcome! How can I help you today? I asked.

      Rose replied timidly, I guess my doctor sent me to you because of my weight . . . I asked if she was ready to look at new choices and Rose nodded yes. I proceeded with a 24-hour Food Recall and Monthly Food Intake Review, reviewed her labs and medical chart record with her. I listened as Rose shared information about her lifestyle and described typical daily meals. Rose’s blood labs showed that something she was doing was not working for her, as the fat and cholesterol in the blood were too high and her poor liver was saying cut it out based on the high concentration of liver enzymes we measured (high liver enzymes can mean inflammation and fatty liver disease). Basically, her blood sugar, cholesterol and fat (triglycerides) were high and so were her liver markers. In her case, the high sugar intake and processed fats contributed not only to the out-of-range lab values, but also to her low energy level and weight gain.

      It might look like a That’s terrible! moment, but this is and has been extremely common in my practice. Nearly 75% of the patients, both in the community clinic and in private contracts, have had similar health issues. Rose and I spent the next thirty minutes discussing her food choices. To make life easier for her, I played make a healthy plate with my life size rubber food models as we put together potential meal and snack selections for her to try. She was surprised at how much food a person was allowed to eat when the food was considered whole (not processed) and fresh. At the end of our session I asked a question, as I always do, to make sure she was comfortable with what to do on her own. Now that we’ve gone through all the foods, what are some good snack choices that you would like to try? Without missing a beat Rose replied, How about CHEETOS®? I really like CHEETOS. Can I eat those as snacks? I took a breath to avoid responding inappropriately, so I replied in a kind and gentle voice, It’s good to ask yourself this question whenever you are not sure if something is healthy or not ... in this case.

      Do CHEETOS come from the Earth, a tree, or a factory?

      I waited a few seconds ... keeping my eyes gently focused on her as I awaited her response. She took a deep breath and responded, I don’t know? After almost two decades of having seen hundreds of patients, day-in and day-out, I certainly had not expected that response.

      So, I’d like to share with you the correct answer: Cheese Puffs don’t grow on trees. ...

      ... They are made in a factory with processed chemicals and offer zero nutritional value, though some would argue the cheddar cheese is worthy; I can hear you! However, they do taste good and are part of our nation’s processed food frenzy; often a daily staple, as I’ve witnessed at the clinic, school lunch yards and most convenience stores.

      Rose totally threw me off my calm self-mode that day. As soon as I was finished with her appointment, I marched straight into the Medical Director’s office, sat on the worn-out chair next to his desk, sighed as he interrupted, What is going on? You look . . . (He probably wanted to say ‘crazed’.) I looked up at him and spurted out, I have no idea what I am doing here today. I just spent 30 minutes teaching and after all that ... not a healthy food option was selected by her, but instead she thought CHEETOS grew on trees! I think I am doing this all wrong? He laughed and said, I think you are burnt out and should take some time off, I will authorize the leave, as you have vacation time, I am sure, after all those years you’ve worked here. I must have looked like a crazy person for the Medical Director to say, Go home, don’t worry about it, take a mental health break. I thought to myself, Now, I have to put things into perspective. I, along with the dedicated clinicians there, nurses, nurse practitioners and medical doctors, spend intense time with less than 20 minutes per high-risk patient 40 or more hours per week, with very difficult patients and at times limited resources not only for us but for them. After 18 or more years of doing something repeatedly, there is a risk of burn out, or a sense of, is anything I am doing working? However, even with wild work frustration and occasional feelings of hopelessness ... OF COURSE it matters what I did, what I do and what anyone else does, but sometimes, a little break in the pattern can lead to amazing new things.

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