Have you ever been to a hardware superstore to buy a hammer? If not - I highly encourage you to try it. Go to a hardware superstore and buy a hammer.

One year I thought it would be nice to buy my husband, a handyman with over 15 years construction experience, a hammer for Christmas. He needed one, and was dropping pretty heavy hints that he'd like a new one. Easy enough task, right?

Off to Home Depot I went. After 15 minutes of standing, stunned, staring at a wall that seemed as wide and tall as any wall could be, full of more styles, brands, sizes, and a wide range of quality of what seemed to be a simple item, I went back home and asked my husband for a detailed description of exactly which hammer he'd like.

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We don't want you to come to LifeFoodStore.com looking for the best products to help you look and feel great, only to feel like I did standing in front of that wall of hammers. We want you to jump online, find what you need, and enjoy the experience. We do the homework to present you with products we use, love, and can't live without - and easy access information to back it. 

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Sometimes it is worth spending a little more for products, and sometimes it just isn't. Prices are kept as low as possible, and as we select products to present to you, price and value are weighed out. Often, prices are higher for concentrates. Be sure when you are comparing prices, don't jump on a lower price based solely on the volume of a product. Very pure concentrates will go a lot further than diluted products that might weigh the same.

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Pure Juices and Liquid Nutrition

For a long time, I have been a fan of juicing. We go through phases where the juicer is "counter-worthy", and then long periods of time when it is put away in a cupboard somewhere.

It is hard to find anyone disputing the bioavailability of nutrients to our bodies when juice is the vehicle by which it is delivered.

So, if we agree that juicing is good, that nutrients via juice is the best, what are your thoughts on our body's status with regard to nutrition? If you are here, I will guess that you agree that we need to supplement our daily food with additional nutrition.

Most people concur that local is best. We used to live in the Pacific Northwest where vegetation is lush, but available (fresh) for a limited time. Now we live in Texas, where the growing season is long, but "lush vegetation" is not a word that comes to mind.

That is why I am so very thankful for Genesis Today products. They are constantly developing new ways to help people slip in some healthy into their lives. Their juices and chews are our favorites. We love to drink juice, but usually avoid juices because we try not to "drink our calories." However, because of the high nutrient content to calorie count ratio, a couple of glasses of "supplement juices" are not only allowed in our house - they are encouraged!

The biggest issue we have with the chews are the fact that, because they really are supplements, we can only eat 1 or 2 a day! My daughter and I could down a bag a day, at least. What a delicious way we have found to have more energy, feel more bright and shiny, maintain a healthy weight, and have much nicer skin, hair and nails. Basically, I get to look and feel younger and more fit by eating tasty snacks and drinking delicious juice.

The Youngren Family List

I'm no doctor, but here are some assumptions, and pretty broad generalizations I have made based on research, advice from many professionals, and first hand experience. If you can relate, agree with some, most or all of it, or want to know more about it, you are in the right place! Let's search, find, and deliver together.

• Buying locally grown produce is best.
• Live is food better than dead food.
• Raw is better than cooked.
• Pesticides are poison.
• The more nutrition you get per calorie, the better.
• Vegetables in the US produce department are generally better for us than fruits.
• In MY opinion, I'd take wild game from an area free from pesticides over organic meat raised on a farm; yet organically, locally grown meat wins all day long over commercially, non-organically grown meat.
• Honey is the sweetener I'd use for my family before any other; Stevia  products my second.
• Any kind of sugar can be toxic. Honey gets a special place in our kitchen, though, because of it's status as (and reasons for it being) a "superfood."
• Gluten is toxic. I view it similarly as a bee. The more you're stung, the less your body can tolerate the poison.
• Our body needs alkaline-friendly foods.
• I dehydrate myself way too much - and so do the people around me. I will be relentless about pursuing ways to make drink more water second nature.
• We cannot become healthy unless all junk food is removed (except for the "chosen" treats).
• GMO, Genetically Modified food, and the such is a bummer for a multitude of reasons.
• Dairy makes us sick (except yogurt, which is good for us, which I still think is weird). Think about it - even cows don't drink milk.
• Our family chooses to eat 4-5 servings of meat per week. These are properly portioned (3 oz for me and my daughter, 4 oz for my husband and teen-aged sons), lean, wild game, cooked in olive oil.
• Good oil is allowed as much and as often as we want it!!! I have no clinical reason for this, other than the nutritionists agree with me when I tell them this rule. We eat a lot of olive oil. When I cook the lean meats, I'll add it until the meat is moist and delicious.
• We avoid animal fats. 
• You can't fit two things in one space, so cleansing is important Have you ever used a sponge for a length of time? Were you ever able to clean a dingy, dirty sponge by simply rinsing it with water? Eww.
• Avoid carbonated drinks.
• Glass is better than plastic, but use plastic if it is helping you live healthier today than you did yesterday.
• "Green" doesn't always mean "healthy." Healthy comes first here at the Youngren house. I liken it to putting our oxygen on in the event of an emergency on an airplane. It's tough to effectively help anyone else before you help yourself survive.
• Fast food is absolutely forbidden. If you are on the road and in a hurry, the local deli, diner, or sandwich shop are all "ok" choices - not great - but MUCH better than fast food.
• MY most important assumption (and mantra) of all: FOOD IS NOT THE BOSS OF ME.

Life is about choices. Often the BEST choice is not available in the cards laid in front of us. Each day hundreds, if not thousands, of choices zip by us. Sometimes we carefully and thoughtfully choose, but is it fair to say that most times our selection is made out of lack of deliberate choice?

About a year ago, we were forced to be "present" when faced with food choices. I can say with firm certainty that there is no possible way we could have made better food choices without eliminating the foods we decided to avoid. This is as true today as it ever was, and when I ask the families around me, it doesn't take long to realize that we are not alone. I may even go so far as to say YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE WITHOUT DUMPING THE OLD!

So, how can we do that and still hold true to "food is not the boss of me"? Simple. Food is not the boss of me. I want to eat right, so if that food is in my kitchen and grabbing me by the hands and face to go eat it (potato chips are very good at this with me) - it is the boss of me.

As a family, we all have to live like this. What about Christmas? Easter? Halloween? I've got kids - and a husband. I can tell you with confidence that we have and will always have candy, chips, bread, cake, ice cream, and other toxins in our house on occassion. I truly, in my gut, feel they are toxins. Stop rolling your eyes - I know "toxins" has become a word that is thrown around a lot with regards to food. I have just seen these toxins take down a 239 pound strong, otherwise healthy man (he came out of it 213 pounds, where he has remained through healthy eating habits, which is cool).

Take Halloween as an example. My kids, who are actually older teens, still come home with a loot of candy. Of course, there is the candy we buy for the neighbor kids, too (sorry - I'm not SO crazy as to be "that" neighbor who hands out nuts and berries for Halloween). My family has 2 days - that is 48 hours - to get rid of the loot. I absolutely throw it out in 2 days. This also applies to birthday cake, ice cream, party snacks - even left over food that loving friends and family bring over that have gluten and/or sugar.

We are actually fortunate in our home because if my husband Duane eats that stuff, it will kill him. He doesn't go into anaphylactic shock - he can tolerate it for a bit, then he just "goes down for the count" until we bring him back with nutrition.

75% clean was our first goal. Now it is 85%.

"Clean" to us means adhering to the assumptions above.

SO - we get 15-25% room to drink coffee with cream and sugar, mochas, eat (dark) chocolate, eat whatever fruit we want, have some bacon, use butter on our popcorn (diluted with olive oil, of course), and eat out. I'm a soda freak, so sometime's I'll have a Reed's Ginger Beer (the strongest ginger beer out there - love it!)

Tips

Here are some ideas that helped us - maybe they'll help you - live abundantly while eating healthy. I dare you to try one today, and another next week (because the one you try today will be next week's habit).

• Slice meat, and place it so it looks like there is more.
• Clean your cutting board and knife immediately after using.
• Keep your kitchen clean - recruit your family to help.
• DO NOT keep food you are avoiding anywhere in the house. In a weak moment, I promise you that you will cave in and eat it.
• Have a lot of food storage containers on hand. About 4 times what you think you should have.
• Drink a glass of water before you do anything else in the morning (make a deliberate challenge out of it)
• Talk to someone who has a passion for healthy living to talk to about recipes, tips, tricks - DAILY (text, instant message, on Facebook - whatever it takes).
• Clean your vegetables as soon as you get home from the grocery store.
• "Prep" your vegetables all at once, putting them into "grab and go" containers.
• Try to eat "only" foods with four or fewer ingredients - all of which you could find at your local market.
• We eat out at least once a week. Duane and I *always* split an appetizer, entree, and dessert. That was probably the first "healthy eating" habit we adopted about 5 years ago. We always say "if we're still hungry when we're done, we'll order more food." We have never needed to - and we often don't have room for dessert.
• Don't let "gurus" get you down. We aren't "bad" when we eat non-organic, drugged chickens. Just do your best.
• As cliche as it sounds, this has to be a lifestyle. If you make poor food choices for a week, don't let that go to your head. This is a MENTAL battle. Remind yourself that you don't eat that way, and fight your way back.
• IMPORTANT: You are not dieting!! You are fueling your body, and eliminating toxic crap in your tissues.

You are doing the right stuff - you will see more results than you ever imagined. Weight loss will only be the tip of the iceberg, a by-product of your healthy lifestyle.

A friend once told me that cutting gluten and sugar was harder for him than quitting smoking. He had smoked since he was a boy, so that was saying a lot. Thinking back to moments where I was tearing the cupboards apart looking for a cracker, chips, pasta - some sort of flour product - I could completely relate. It isn't something you can do without true commitment.

However, I have to tell you - when you eat right, you have to eat A LOT of food. I highly recommend tracking what you eat. NOT to track the traditional calories, fat, and carbs - but to track nutrition. If you really eat well, following the assumptions I listed above, you can eat a lot of food. We learned so much about preparing food in bulk when Duane was sick. We both felt like we were eating all day - we still probably eat 4-5 meals per day - and we both lost weight (and are keeping it off).

The Transfer of Health store, magazine, social network, referral network, and recipe database was built in love, and is being maintained out of that same passion for your health, for my health, but most importantly the health of the kids that were entrusted into our care.

I want to make this as easy and affordable for you as I possibly can - so you can have food, equipment, and other items and services AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.

How would I measure success? Fewer cases of autism, cancer, and ADHD. Higher test scores in school. Really, I'd be thrilled to see Americans become healthier and happier. What would this place look like? More smiles, older smiles, joy in the eyes of young people. That would be a reward beyond measure.

Thanks for reading, thanks for being here.

Take care of you, and each other.

Tiffany Youngren, Co-Founder