“Processed People”: IT’S UP TO YOU TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH DESTINY

Health-conscious readers,

This excerpt I write you on a serious note, but one that you must begin to embrace if you truly want to avoid illness in your health & achieve long term quality of health. A colleague of mine had this documentary featured on her blog & I feel it’s an important resource to pass on & a critical topic to touch on.

I titled this post with a title from the powerful health video I’ve included for you at the bottom because it resonates so much for me with what I’ve been through in my own  life in battling and having to personally overcome health challenges and learn how to not only manage, but become the LEADER of my personal health over time, and how empowering that truly feels since I’ve become this as a person in every sense of that phrase.

I have managed to develop a very strong relationship with my body over many years; I listen to it, I am in tune with it, and I trust my inner intuition as my guide; but it’s a muscle you need to personally develop over time for certain – and it takes WORK & MINDFUL INTENTION - it doesn’t just happen.

It’s a bit like a marriage if you will – we get married & a marriage doesn’t just ‘exist’ right? It takes constant investment, work, nurturing, & caring to be good, and it continually challenges to be a better person. In this way our marriage grows & doesn’t become stagnant or sickly, and in turn pays us back with great joy.

Look at your body the same way - you are married to your body, you have a relationship with it, it’s with you at all times … BUT do you invest in it, nurture it, care for it, support it, listen to it & challenge it on a regular basis to ensure it grows & doesn’t become stagnant or sickly, so in turn it pays you back with great joy??

Until we start thinking & living this way, until we start realizing it’s up to us to take control of our own personal health destiny, and stop looking OUTWARD for all the sources to support us, but turn our ear inward & listen to ourselves – let our bodies tell us what we need, get in tune with how our body feels after we eat something, after a good workout, or after we take a pill, then we will never get to a place where we are FULLY in control of our health. The message – look inward, not outward…

To this end, we need to start to question the health messages we’re getting from ‘OUTWARD’ sources & let our bodies tell us if they’re the best way to support our health or not. When the package on those 100 calorie packs Nabisco makes may tell you these are ‘non-fat’, or these are only ‘100 calories’, here is where we need to stop trusting the messages we’re getting from OUTWARD sources so much & look INWARD and ask yourself — truly, do you think they are healthful for you? And when you look INWARD what is your body saying in response? Aren’t the health symptoms so many of us struggle with or the way that we feel health-wise from consuming them a valid enough INWARD/internal response from your body to that question?

Consider that the ADA, the AHA, the FDA, the AMA, General Mills, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Kellogg’s, Nabisco, Kraft, Monsanto, and all the other big guns in the food & health industry may not have your best health interest at heart, no matter what their food packaging claims….

Here’s a great example – McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, the creator of Splenda sweetener which is marketed as a “healthy” sweetener alternative, is actually a division of Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company. Can someone tell me what the pharmaceutical industry is doing producing our foods please?

Going back to my latest blog on food, let’s ask these questions -

• Do you know what Splenda really is before you put it in your body?
• Did you know that it contains chlorine in it, the same molecules as the bleach you put in your washing machine, or clean your home with?
• Do you know that chlorine is a carcinogen, i.e. it causes cancer?

Read more here – scroll down to the section “What exactly is Splenda?”: http://www.splendaexposed.com/articles/2005/04/artificial_swee_1.html

Please understand 99% COMPANIES are not planning on telling you 100% truth of what’s in their packaged foods when they have budget goals to make, cost cuts to reach, & products to sell.

They are not reporting to their CEO’s on how your health is benefiting from consuming their packaged foods, they are reporting to their CEO’s on making #’s. It’s that black & white — and we the consumers suffer when we trust what food companies are claiming on their bright happy boxes, packages & bags. Most of the claims they make on food packaging are really intended only to confuse & make it harder for you to decipher what you’re eating, sadly. I know, I used to work in food marketing for produce companies – but I worked for the ‘good guy’s at least as there is nothing to hide when it comes to the nutrition content of veggies & fruits!

So to an extent, while we can become educated about label reading, you will never know entirely what it is your consuming, or the long term effects, when you eat packaged foods. And if you truly want to be empowered and in control of your personal health, this means over time you have to work to become less dependent on packaged foods, or else you might as well move to Vegas, baby your kitchen is a cr*p shoot…

I don’t know about you, but I’m not a big betting person, never have been - I like to be in control of my odds – in this sense, I’ve come to a place over many years of wanting to know at all times that I’m eating “REAL FOOD” and knowing I can pronounce and understand every ingredient that is going in my mouth with my meals to minimize disease onset risk & truly be IN CONTROL 100% of my own health. I wish I had better news folks, but this is the only guaranteed way.

It took me getting very sick in my middle age for almost 2 years with immune & endocrine system failure, as well as chronic fatigue, to finally get to a place where I fully understood this, because healthful whole foods nutrition & glandular supplementation were used as the predominant tools in my recovery and healing process – and it was the only thing that worked 100% to heal me, even trumping medicine.

To this end, here is a new wonderful documentary to be released in Jan 2009 featuring health & nutrition field experts discussing the truths behind our food marketing, nutrition & food production industries, and how we need an entire mindset shift of our “processed people” approach to health & disease management in our country to conquer obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and the plethora of illnesses that have overcome us due to the bill of goods we’ve been ‘fed’ about what’s in our foods & what is TRULY good for our quality of health.

I encourage you to open your mind & embrace health possibility – watch a moving documentary clip here:

Encouraging you to seek authentic health,

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