[cryout-pullquote align=”left” textalign=”center” width=”33%”]“I had done’all the right things’ for so long… so it was totally shocking to learn that my low-fat, high-carb diet was behind my weight gain and low energy.” –DJ
“I’m really grateful for the friendly know-how and support making the changes I needed to make. I’m dancing with joy!” –PF
“This site is a wealth of just great, real whole food ideas! Thank you” –AM[/cryout-pullquote]
Greetings friends of health!
I hope you enjoy this special post and wishes for the coming year. Everyone can have incredible wins like these—no matter their unique situation.
Many, many people are turning their health around because they are including healthy, whole food and other changes into their daily routines. Step by step, together we gain more energy had clarity toward our goals.
Whether you experience too much fatigue, headaches, high cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, obesity, or a multitude of other unwanted situations, any and all damage can be repaired–at any age. Just make simple changes, give it time and patience, and love yourself. Whether your changes are nutrition (more whole foods) or nourishing (primary foods like relationships, exercise, meaningful work, spirituality), make them in doable steps—this is important.
Try these great ideas for your festive New Year’s celebration of life and health. Select from among our incredible vegetable dishes to join:
Garlic Roast Beef with Creamy Wild Mushroom Sauce
Pumpkin Chiffon Chocolate Tart
Let me know how else I can help: send me a comment, below.
We find ourselves at a health juncture today: one where we may need to take the path less traveled. Decades of heavy pharmaceutical company marketing aimed at getting us to take a pill for every pain or problem—sometimes things we didn’t know were even problems (like cholesterol)!
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
- Americans spend more than any other country on their health, over $7000 per person in 2007, the last year for verified accounting numbers.
- We spend five times more on pharmaceuticals today then in 1990—just prior to the 1992 law approving television advertising. Drug spending has more than doubled in the last decade alone.
- We also spend five times more administering programs that are suppose to control health costs than we spent in 1990.
- For comparison, our Gross Domestic Product—the overall production of our country—has not increased five times, not even three times, during the same period since 1990. Neither have our wages.
We’ve spent a lot of our hard-earned money on doing the things advertising companies told us to do and this made the drug companies a lot of profit. Did we get healthier? Nope:
According to a 2007 evaluation by the World Health Organization:
- The United States health care system ranked 37 out of 37 developed countries evaluated.
- The US ranked 39th for infant mortality, 43rd for adult female mortality, 42nd for adult male mortality, and 36th for life expectancy of all 191 countries in the study.
Decades of bad information—marketing that seeps its way even into textbooks—from the food and pharmaceutical industries have done serious damage that is gradually showing itself. In reviewing the intake forms of our clients, one can easily see a common thread: Misinformation and approaches aimed at reducing symptoms rather than addressing the cause.
I’m glad you are on this journey with me. Let’s together do something that matters—create a ripple effect. Please share this site with your friends and loved ones and let me know how I can support you in accomplishing what you want and having the fulfilling life you deserve.
—Marie
