“Not everything that we eat that tastes good is healthy as they have repercussion on our body”

That was what Bacoleña Sandra Inez Seifert, Miss Earth Air 2009, said Monday night as she encouraged the youth to start eating more organic and raw food to avoid diseases.

Seifert, who studied nursing at the City University of New York, said she started to pursue a vegetarian diet when she was 15, and has since tried to live a holistic and active lifestyle.

“Serious diseases come from the food we eat and nowadays, a lot of what we eat are processed without us knowing what chemicals were put in there and I don't want to take the risk”, she said.

“When I first started (the vegetarian diet), after few days without meat, I went to a fastfood restaurant and got myself a cheese burger and that was the last time,” she said.

Seifert added that she has already given up eating pork, chicken, beef, and even fish.

Aside from her health advocacy, Seifert has worked as chief marketing officer for a music start-up company and is now working for a website that focuses on dress designing.

Meanwhile, Seifert advised this year's Miss Earth Philippines aspirants to choose good environmental advocacies and make use of the pageant to spread the message of caring for the environment.

Seifert also said that beauty pageant contestants should have an option on the language they can best express themselves in, since language should never be an inhibition in expressing your thoughts and opinions.

She was in Bacolod for the launching of Meganox, an antioxidant food supplement, (story on page 11) Monday night. *APN

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