I often try to encourage all the people that I know to be careful about making good consumer’s choices regarding the food we eat. I frequently say that “we are what we eat” and “we shape the world by what we eat”…

Please read this great article in Time Magazine about the food system in America and the relationship to our cheap personal choices.

Enjoy!

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html?artId=1917458?contType=article?chn=sciHealth

Think before you eat! Whether you like it or not, if it is cheap, most likely it is low quality!

Unless real exceptional cases, food in order to be cheap must be mass produced and full of antibiotics, hormones, chemicals and GMO’s.

To save money in food in order to buy things that we really do not need is a harmful idea driving to mortgage our long term health.

Junk food = Junk Body = Junk Mind!

Please think before you eat and encourage other to do the same.

By doing that we will be enjoying a much healthier and better quality of life but also we will be contributing to change America’s food system for good!

For me and my family, I tend to avoid food that is not natural. That is to say, I stay away from anything that looks like something but it is something else…

Being from Argentina I have to say that I hate soy. a) Because my organic country is unfortunately becoming a world power producer of GMO Soy (in my opinion, literally poison for people and the environment) and almost all this soy is being exported (Argentineans do not eat much soy…) Monsanto is helping this crazy and ignorant development of ruining the soil and selling profitable & horrible food to people in other places.. B) I love real meats!

In Argentina and Uruguay, the sustainable deal is, the cows feed the soil, and the soil feeds the cows, so by permanently rotating the different crops on the same soil, and by later having cattle feeding and living in that soil, the sustainable circle closes nicely…

When at first I decided to start up GustOrganics, I did it thinking about well-being as a primary target. In my opinion businesses that focus on maximizing profits without thinking about people, do not make sense, but most important, will slowly face out of the market places.

Coming from Argentina, I thought that America’s general diet was kind of weak in nutrients, full of artificial stuff, too excessive in term of quantity, and it lacks of antioxidants.

In Argentina we normally eat a lot healthier, very near to organic, with a lot less artificial components, our portions are about 60% of what they are in US, and we as Argentineans, tend to drink one glass of wine with the meal.

I always thought that the above represents the formula for a healthier and longer life.

Therefore my idea for GustOrganics was to simply offer that. I mean to combine 100% organic food, portion control and one organic glass of wine on every meal. We finally got it.

I know as a fact that organics are healthier than regular foods. This is stated in many studies around the world.

In regards to the amount of food we eat in America, I thought that was extreme and this by no means could be healthy, but I never saw any scientific proof of that.

About the wine, since Argentina is a big wine producer, I grew up believing that drinking one glass of red wine every day would extend our life. But in this case again, I never found any real proof of that other than the popular myth.

Yesterday I was watching “60 minutes” and I found out with incredible pleasure that a very serious research shows that Resveratrol, a component present in the wine, helps to stop the aging genes.

In the same research, I also discovered that there are some strong indicators that reducing the calories consumption (portion control) helps people to be healthier but also to live better and longer.

So it looks like my intuition that was later transformed in one of the pillars for GustOrganics, it starts to be backed up by some serious scientific studies.

The combination of 100% organic food, portion control and red organic wine, seems to be the healthiest organic synergy towards a better and longer life.

Read more at: 60 Minutes / Fountain of youth in a Wine RX?