With the major shifts by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) leadership and movement, what are you doing differently to shift your food choices? Could these revised guidelines create the tipping point for reversing the sad, sick, stressed, and stupid healthcare epidemic we are facing in the US? What if cracking the code to happiness and health was linked to eating mostly natural and nutrient-dense organic whole foods while avoiding the processed and ultra-processed fake, fast, fried, and Frankenstein foods?
This blog outlines key coaching distinctions and guidelines to help you decide to embrace Budget-Friendly Smart Super-Foods for Smart Super-Families. Remember… Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” When we realize that the foods on the checklist below offer medicinal benefits for our body, mind, and spirit, we begin to understand that we are doing more by buying quality food-medicine and investing in our happiness and health.
Now may be the perfect time to review and rethink the choices and decisions we made in the past, based on brainwashing, marketing hype, and taste-bud hijacking that influenced our behaviors, beliefs, and blind spots toward consuming unhealthy choices. Please read the previous blog post on “Can Free Medicine Plants – Make America Healthy Again?” for the big picture, or read further for a budget-friendly, condensed checklist below, with a shorter list of superfoods and super-healthy bonus benefits.
While the Make America Healthy Again MAHA food pyramid is very different than previous food pyramids, there are some caveats to consider. While the HHS and USDA guidelines have some great information, they do not seem specific enough on key aspects before you go shopping for new choices. Some key considerations are: Be sure your animal products are naturally fed, raised, and processed in healthy environments. Most of your foods should be fresh, in season, local, natural, and organic. Avoid dairy from unhealthy farms that are contaminated, fed GMO grains, homogenized, or treated with bovine growth hormone or excessive antibiotics. Be sure to avoid herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, and foods treated with other chemicals that may pose a risk. Be sure to read the ingredients to avoid artificial ingredients, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), MSG, and excess sugar. How you prepare food is important to maintain the health benefits. Avoid as many canned foods as possible. Avoid seed oils from all canola, corn, cottonseed, peanut, safflower, sunflower, soy, and vegetable oils. Avoid trans-fats in margarine and oils. Avoid Bioengineered (BE), Genetically Engineered (GE), Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Frankenstein foods. Remember, fresh is best.
Smart Super Foods for Smart Super Families
What are you doing differently in 2026 to improve your health and wellness? Do you eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day? What is preventing you from following the recommended servings of healthy fruits and vegetables each day to support optimal health? Now that the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has flipped the food pyramid upside down what will ;you do differently? Here is a budget-friendly checklist to help you make better shopping decisions.
- Avocados
- Beans (black, kidney, Lima, pinto, red, white)
- Beef (Grass-fed bone broth, meat, organs)
- Beets
- Berries
- Bok Choy
- Broccoli
- Brussels Sprouts
- Cabbage
- Cactus (nopal)
- Carrots
- Celery
- Chard
- Chia seeds
- Chickpeas
- Coconut & Coconut oil
- Collard greens
- Corn (organic)
- Dandelions (flower, leaves, & roots)
- Eggs (organic)
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Fennel
- Fruits (apples, bananas, cherries, currants, dates, figs, grapefruit, lemons, limes, mangoes, oranges, papaya, plums, prunes, tangerines)
- Ghee
- Ginger
- Hemp seeds
- Honey (raw)
- Kim chi
- Kiwi
- Lentils
- Melons (cantaloupe, honeydew, water)
- Mulberries
- Mushrooms
- Mustard greens
- Nuts (raw almonds, Brazil, hazelnuts, macadamia, pecans, pistachio, walnuts). Avoid roasted nuts.
- Okra
- Olives ( black sun-dried, calamata, green)
- Onion
- Parsley
- Peas
- Pineapple
- Pomegranate
- Pulses
- Radish
- Rice (white)
- Salmon (Alaska wild caught)
- Sardines
- Sauerkraut
- Seaweed
- Seeds (raw sprouted pumpkin, sunflowers)
- Sesame greens
- Sprouts (mung bean & sunflower)
- Squash
- Squid
- Sweet potato
- Tea (black, ginger, ginseng, green, hibiscus, pine, rooibos, yaupon)
- Turmeric
- Watercress
Helpful Hints
What will motivate you to update and upgrade your nutrition choices? Morningstar NEWS finds the research, resources, and role models to help you create a Mastery Action Plan (MAP) to help you enjoy rapid results. For a happier and healthier life, focus on nutrient-dense organic whole foods. If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, maybe we should eat more apples.
Mastery Action Plan (MAP)
What food and lifestyle choices will you make now to be healthier? How will a written Nutrition Code of Conduct help you make better decisions? What will it take for you to get your 5 A Day?
Passion for People & Planet
Morningstar NEWS’s passion and purpose are to condense hundreds of hours of reading and research into two minutes of education, information, and inspiration. We encourage you to focus more on your lifestyle and nutrition. Remember… we are what we eat… choose wisely.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.―
“To Make America Healthy Again will involve a major mental mindset shift to help people eat more like their healthy ancestors instead of the profit driven Standard American Diet (SAD)”. —Michael Morningstar
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