Leah VanHoose, owner of Another Level Fitness~Crossfit Nation is awesome. No other word for her. The photos she posts are awesome. Her look, AWESOME. Her insight –beyond awesome. I have had the exact same thoughts when I am out shopping and see the crap people have in their carts. I always feel so judgmental when I think about what they are doing to themselves…Like I am perfect or something. Well we know that ain’t true! But I feel so strongly about this and it’s not because I feel that the people in question are bad people. They are just wrong in their thinking, wrong in what they have learned, and conditioned to live this way.

If we all put focus on what we put in our bodies regularly, we would without a doubt be healthier, stronger, happier, more satisfied.  But what is the key to getting people to embrace that?  You have smokers out there that still smoke even with a tracheotomy hole, you have diabetics who still give little thought to their blood sugar levels.

Leah mentions that knowing you have control to make the change is the first step and then following through on making thoughtful decisions about what you eat.  She mentions its not complicated. I agree with her about the eating formula not being complicated –Lean meats and seafood.  Fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds. 

But in reality, we all know the food is not the root of the problem.  It’s all in our minds!

Don’t put that in your mouth

In general I do not offer my opinion or advice unless asked.  But today, standing in line at the grocery store, I had to hold my tongue.  I wanted to shout, YOU HAVE CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH, at the tops of my lungs.  The state of our population is absolutely, completely, out of control.  It’s not getting better.  In fact, it’s getting worse, way worse. We are teaching our kids our horrible, deadly habits.

The conversation I overheard went something like this:  “Oh, you’re only on that prescription?  I’m on four now and the doctor wants to put me on percocet for my pain.”   “Well, I’m afraid of getting addicted to percocet.” “Well, the doctor  told me that if it’s real pain I won’t get addicted.  Only people that use it to get high get addicted.”  It went back and forth like this, both ladies describing their various ailments and the drugs they are on to combat them.  A third lady chimed in now and then about her meds.  I look at the conveyor belt.  It is loaded with soda and chips.  There are boxes of cereal and fake juice.  All the while the kids are stuffing their faces with candy she just bought for them.  All three ladies are borderline obese and the two kids are well on their way.  Everywhere I look anymore I see people obese and sickly.  Using canes and motorized carts.  The line at the pharmacy is always the longest.  I believe we have at least seven drug stores in Easton.

You are what you eat.  Bottom line, you eat shit, you are shit.  Food related illnesses are KILLING us.  Obesity, heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers, osteoporosis and if you look closer, many many more diseases can be attributed to your diet, quite possibly all.  Our cells and organs function with the nutrients you ingest.  If you are putting poor quality nutrition into your body how can you expect anything else but disease to happen?  Disease is our bodies way of saying “something is not right”.  Our bodies are beautiful machines each part working synergistically with the next.  You don’t even have to think about it.  It just does it.  What happens when you put something in your car’s gas tank that the car doesn’t recognize?  It breaks.  You car won’t run on sugar.  Quite the opposite.  It blows up.  See what I’m getting at?  Putting the wrong fuel in your tank will blow your body up.