FOOD for thought...

I was just thinking about this the other day... there seems to be a lot more dis-ease and sickness these days, with things like cancer, chronic fatique syndrome, depression, OCD, ADHD, arthritis... the list goes on and on!! With new ones seeming to pop up each and every day!

If we take a look back a couple years (decades) we have always had disease, thats not a question, and perhaps the rare cases back then were arguably worse than the cases these days which are easily treated with a plethora of medicines. However if I look at the trend of food, when food started to be processed, when anti-biotics where introduced, there seems to be more dis-ease (I spell it like that on purpose to enforce the meaning of the word) and sickness today in America and North America and all around the world. Why is it, if we are becoming so "advanced" in treatements of disease and illness that there is still new diseases popping up all the time!!!!

In my humble opinion the system is backwards is a whole different way of thinking.... to have the courage when nothing is seemingly wrong to look at your health and ask what can I do better, to increase your ZEST for life, by giving your body the nutrients it needs. Someone once explained it to me this way - your body is a bank account, when your young you generally are debiting from it, through lack of sleep, more than average drinking, asking of your body more than it is prepare to give you, and subsequently it delves into its mineral and nutrient stores to provide you with what you ask of it. As we get older, (and we are neglecting our bodies - or just have no idea what to do) we start so show signs of "aging" we are tired faster, we dont have the energy, the passion is lost..... this unfortunately is the description of many peoples retirement!!! But when your body is healthy and you continue to feed it the things it needs, the enzymes, the minerals, the nutrients and build up bone marrow stores (where the nutrients are held for your blood) THATS when we begin to experience VITALITY and VIBRANCE when life is no longer about the absense of dis-ease but the presence of LIFE, of LOVE, of VITALITY and of EASE......

Its truly a shame that the way people have come to think of growing old is that we become feeble, and can no longer do the things we used to, my father is case and point, he is 50 years old, still works the same amount of hours as when I was a kid 20 years ago, and actually LOVES what he does more now than hes ever before, he also has the energy after a 12 hour day to go dancing with the love of his life. And although hes thinking about retiring within the coming years, his definition of retirment is a LITTLE different than the average persons, he wants to have a place where he can live quitely with his sweetheart, and I bet you he'll be here (on the farm) more days than not, that he'll be running around playing some sport, dancing till his hearts content and still raising the animals! now THATS what I call a "vibrant LIFE"

What kind of life do you want to live? what is your standard that you wont settle for less than?
What are you willing to do to have the life of your dreams?!?!?

Just some "food" for thought!
Melissa