Nutrition - Righteous Roots

Nutritional Acumen

We know the development of health and nutritional acumen is necessary to stave off disease and reduce healthcare visits. Righteous Roots is here to provide education and tools to help you understand the nutrition your body needs, find and choose nourishing foods, keep your body moving, and seamlessly integrate healthy choices into your everyday life.

How do we do this?

We provide resources that aim to educate in the areas of food, fitness, nutrition, and everyday living. These resources will expound on the toxicity of ingredients in your food and personal hygiene products. They can help you identify your body type and what diet/exercises correspond to your body's needs. In addition, our resources detail household items to avoid for a healthier lifestyle, along with much, much more.

Food

Exercise

Meet Up is a great way to find free fitness clubs in your area. Just put Free Fitness Club, or whatever activity you are interested in (like yoga, running, or basketball) into the keyword search, and enter your location. https://www.meetup.com

Fort Lauderdale on the Cheap is a site with many low cost and free fitness classes and events. The schedule is always being updated, so check it out! https://www.fortlauderdaleonthecheap.com/fitness-classes-and-events/#!/

If you are a senior citizen with Medicare, you may be eligible for the Silver Sneakers program, which offers access to no additional cost fitness. Check your eligibility at https://www.silversneakers.com

Nutrition

nutrition.gov is a USDA-sponsored website that offers credible information to help you make healthful eating choices. There is tons of information to peruse!

My Fitness Pal is a great food diary app. It allows you to better understand the ingredients and nutrition in your food, easily scan processed foods you eat for a nutrition breakdown, and count calories so you are more aware of your eating habits. It’s free! https://www.myfitnesspal.com

The EWG (Environmental Working Group) has an app called Food Scores that has a database of over 80,000 food products. Nutrition, ingredients, and how processed something is are all taken into consideration and the food products are given a rating from 1-10. The closer the rating is to 1, the better! https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/

www.ewg.org allows you to research products and food and break down the ingredients. Provides a score for each ingredient from 1-10 based on how good or bad the ingredient is and also provides an overall score for the product or food.

EWG also has a healthy living app, which allows you to scan the barcode of a product and provide you the info of each ingredients rating.

Everyday Living

Silent Spring’s Detox Me app is the most reliable clean lifestyle guide that walks you through simple, research-based tips on how to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals where you live, work, and play. https://silentspring.org/detox-me-app-tips-healthier-living

EWG also has the Healthy Living app. Scan or search a household product, body care, or cosmetic, review its toxicity rating, and make better choices about what products you use. https://www.ewg.org/apps/

Check out "22 Simple Ways to Get Healthier With Minimal Effort" from Healthline at https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/22-ways-to-get-healthy

Black family eating healthy food together

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One of the many ways we assist communities is through nutritional assistance. Click the button below to nominate a family in need. By nominating a deserving family, Righteous Roots will be able to foster its mission to empower prosperity. Simply complete the form on the page that follows, and our staff will make the effort necessary to help all the families we possibly can.

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