How I Got Here

I knew that I had to do something or I would end up like my dad and his brother (my uncle). They both had heart issues and being that it runs in the family I decided to do something about it. Keep in mind that I started thinking about this when I was in my late 30's and early 40's. I am currently 53. The first thing I did was to stop eating fast food. I went cold turkey and I had this thought in my mind that every time I looked at fast food I could see the calorie count and the fat content etched in my brain. It repulsed me to even think about eating fast food. There is absolutely NO nutritional value in that food. As a matter of fact, the American diet is depleted of nutrients. We can get into that on a later post, but right now I want to tell you how I got to think the way I do. OK, so I stopped eating fast food, but I still ate some stuff that was not so good for me. My diet was erratic and I was either bloated or hungry. There was no middle ground. The good thing was that at least I was aware of my thoughts regarding food and nutrition. I did what everyone does and started to search for good things to eat. When I thought I was onto something, I was shot down by all the crap that was even in the GOOD food. Then I started to research what was in the food we eat. WARNING! If you have a weak stomach do not read further. I discovered that we are eating pollutants!! Yes, that is correct, I said pollutants. I wish the food we bought in the market had these type of warnings on their packages. I guess you can't pick up a package of food and have it display all the chemicals it has in it. If you did then you would probably starve. But I eat Organic! You know how many times I've heard that? I really don't care, but eating organic is at least a start. It really begins with the soil. After years of killing microorganisms with all the pesticides, insecticides and herbicides, the soil has nothing left. Did you know that the Latin word for "CIDE" is DEATH? That is correct, we are putting death on our food.

After doing this research I decided it was time to try something different. There had to be another way. An alternative to the American diet.