Cleaning, organizing, dusting…[repeat.] Cleaning, organizing, dusting…[repeat!!]
This was my spring awakening-styled weekend. A portion of the dusty-house-dance was a pas de deux that I performed with our nutrition and cookbooks (dozens X 10)!! My ”tutu” (too-too) began to unravel when I spyed a huge newspaper-sized book called, “A Directory Of Natural And Health Foods…a source book for a dietary revolution.”
I placed my chores on pause, as I just had to open [crackle-crackle] this long-forgotten book…NOW! Oh my good gracious, take a look at what I found…and I quote:
“It appears to me that we have arrived at a point where we need to ask ourselves whether we can continue to do without a national food policy, whether the developing information relating poor diets to chronic disease, coupled with escalating health costs in the United States doesn’t provide us enough of a sense of urgency to inspire us to develop a national food policy to harmonize our various policies on agriculture, nutrition, food distribution, nutrition information, food advertising, and all other aspects of the food system.
What we need is a renewed commitment to GOOD FOOD, as opposed to food analogs, as the basis of our natural diet. The focus of an American food policy should be to expand choice among an increased diversity of FOODS (as opposed to products.) A poor selected diet composed largely of denatured foods, no matter how fortified or how supplemented, is still a bad diet.”
Guess when this was written? Shamefully, I tell you…1976…1976!!! On those old-book-smell pages of sepia-colored paper, filled with my scrawled margin-’o-notes, is a book chocked-filled with healthy information dating from 1976 ( 36 years ago.) I realized that as a collective people we have made NO progress, but rather have digressed into a sorry sorry state of nutritional obfuscation and dumb dumb dumbness, that sadly has resulted in our chronic ill-health!
What does this have to do with fibroids? Well, EVERYTHING!! Fibroids, and heart disease, and diabetes and obesity, and cancer are all becoming the NORM in our society…they are considered “chronic dis-eases!” And to be brutally honest, if this chronic-state of ill-health continues, it will bring our country and our healthcare system (such as it is) to an untimely demise.
Gosh just think, that if we heeded the prescient and doable warnings of those “health food nuts” (of which I was then and am proudly still,) we would now all share the same health-focused mindset!! This healthy plan dictates pro-active preventative care, and NOT sacrificing ones health at the eating-alter of crap-ola analog food, as-well-as consciously avoiding the rest of the poisons that bombard the body daily!!
I firmly believe that the best defense is a good offense! And it is soo simple to accomplish:
1. Buy and cook real food…not canned or packaged or plasticized analogs
2. Store and cook and drink from/in glass or stainless steel (cast-iron too!)
3. No fragranted products (unless real essential oils,) as they are known endocrine disruptors
4. Buy organic when possible (non-GMO.)
YOU, have the power to change YOU. And in so doing, your pocketbook and purchasing-power becomes your vote. Let’s not wait for another 36 years to pass unmindful in how we nourish ourselves. If enough of us/YOU combine this effort, that will send a loud signal to the powers-that-be, that we are tired of being poisoned for a profit! So for YOUR well-being, in being well and staying well, there is another “ancient “quote from the 1970′s that also rings true for us today, “You are what you eat!” ♥
