With Every Bite You Eat…

You choose how you will live and how you will die.

I have come to that realization through painstaking reflection about how hard it is to help people understand that they can take control of their health and lead vibrant lives. People, especially in America, have accepted a reality that they are supposed to have “decent” health and energy until 40 and then the aches, pains and disease kicks in. Next steps are to medicate and operate, followed by health decline into painful old age (if you make it) and death. Other paradigms have risen as well. Childhood disease (diabetes, cancer, autism spectrum, auto-immune) is growing and a new commonplace reality of medicate the young has taken hold. Here is one more growing reality: women are getting breast cancer younger and younger, and many are defeated by it.

These “realities” make me crazy. I had two fantastic conversations in the past two days with two very different doctors. One is a complementary medicine doctor and one is an MD. They aren’t that different, actually, as they are both promoting healing from the same perspective. Food. I expressed to them my frustration about getting the message out:

• You are what you eat
• You can choose to eat real food and heal yourself
• Your body wants to heal if you give it the chance, and food is the foundation for healing
• You are supposed to feel great, whether you are a child, 40, 60 or older
• Just because you have a genetic predisposition doesn’t mean you will get the disease. The choices you make very much determine whether or not the disease gene is turned on, and in some cases You Can Turn It Off!
• Take responsibility for your health and live with confidence
• There is time to change

The points above form such a great message, yet it so hard to convince people to hear it. Out of frustration and anger I came up with the concept that “With every bite you eat, you choose how you will live and how you will die.” It isn’t positive, which is what I strive for, but it is true. Both doctors could relate and the MD encouraged me to send that message out. Since I haven’t been as effective as I would like with the softer message, what the heck…I might as well try the in your face reality message.

Americans can accept the reality of

• eating processed, poisonous junk
• disease
• medication and operation
• pain and
• death

Or they can reject it and create their own reality of

• eating real food,
• healing disease,
• increasing energy, vibrancy and, fun and
• dying after a life well lived

Which reality will you choose?