Don’t Sacrifice Enjoyment or Health

(for Healthy Cells Magazine October 2009)

Food is playing a bigger role in the drama of our lives today. We are using it for much more than survival and bodily function. It seems that we cannot celebrate, socialize, manage stress or depression, do business, or romance without it. Food itself has become a huge business and because of its consequences, it is supporting a lot of the medical care industry. Strangely, it has created a new food business: health foods.

Food is a hero or a villain depending on what we do with it and that depends on what we know about ourselves and food. At this time, in the United States, how we consume it is a great threat to our wellbeing as well as a potential solution to our seemingly insurmountable medical and economic problems.

In short, the question is, how can we have our cake and eat it too? Simple, single answers, is cut it in half and replace it with veggies, fruits, and whole grains.

Over the years, I learned a lot about nutrition, but not much about food or eating habits, until I found it very frustrating to deal with chronic disease in my patients as well as in myself. My education, my experience in the medical profession, and my passion to improve the quality of aging through wellness has brought me to a few simple facts that can make our health, wellness, and happiness goals so much easier to achieve.

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