In this amazing interview, I talk to Monica Parodi about her journey from a fast junkie to a leading nutrition expert. Monica teaches that nutrition doesn’t just help the health of your body, but also your beauty. In this episode she’ll share with you her tips about shifting from an unhealthy fast food diet to healthy nutrition based diet.
Topics discussed:
- How Monica changed her life with nutrition
- How she changed her diet from fast food junkie to a nutrition based lifestyle
- How to teach your kids about health and get them excited to eat healthy food!
- Monica discusses how her cancer scare changed her life and subsequently her children’s
- How she made the transition to eating healthier foods and how you can, too
- How to get your family on board with eating healthier
- Monica shares what her beauty robbers are, the foods we consume that steal your beauty!
- 3 foods to avoid – the “beauty robbers” that are stealing from your beauty
- Where beauty robbers are hiding in your food
- Foods you need to get more of to restore your beauty
- How you incorporate more of these foods into your diet and where to find them
- How to deal with social situations, going out to eat, and people who don’t understand your lifestyle change
- How to make this an easy transition
Links from the episode:
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- About Monica:
http://monicaparodi.com/meet-monica-parodi/ - Monica’s Personal Nutrition Plan: http://monicaparodi.com/monicas-personal-nutrition-plan/
- Where to find Chia Seeds: http://navitasnaturals.com/product/446/Chia-Seeds.html
- Where to find Hemp Seeds: http://navitasnaturals.com/product/454/Hemp-Seeds.html
- Where to find Blackstrap Molasses: http://www.amazon.com/Plantation-Blackstrap-Molasses-Organic-15/dp/B000QV19BM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411134828&sr=8-1&keywords=organic+black+strap+molasses
- Monica’s Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/thenutritionista
- Monica on Instagram: www.instagram.com/monica_parodi
- Monica’s Pinterest Page (She is new to join and would love to interact with you!): www.pinterest.com/monica_parodi
- Chalene Johnson’s 7 Day Eat Clean Train Mean Program: www.cj7day.com
- Chalene Johnson’s Instagram Impact Program: http://www.chalenejohnson.com/instagram-impact/
- Chalene Johnson’s 30 Day PUSH Program: www.30daypush.com
- BlueHost web hosting: http://www.bluehost.com/track/teamjohnson
- About Monica:
Time Codes:
0:08 Get to know the Nutritionista
0:59 Who is Monica Parodi?
3:04 Let’s take a look at Monica’s nutrition five years ago
4:03 The turning point
5:41 How she got hold of her bad eating habits
7:05 Wanna be better? Research
7:55 The value of educating your kids on nutrition
9:12 How to avoid food rebellion in your kids
10:47 Empower to make good choices
12:16 Beauty and nutrition
13:00 The Role of food in our physical appearance
14:27 Three things that apseed up aging
14:57 The Beauty Robbers
16:02 Hidden sugars you need to be aware of
16:31 Sweet tooth alternatives
17:47 Skip those dairies, or else
19:23 Free nose job. Just lose the dairy.
20:05 Get rid of your refined oils and trans fats
21:06 What to use and how to use those oils
21:51 Take note of these: Foods to restore beauty
23:43 Eat more greens!
24:56 Take the healthy fats
26:57 How to eat healthy when in a crowd who eats poorly
28:15 Want to learn more about Monica’s diets?
30:59 Closing words
