Sunday Story...There is no Magic Pill. Or is there?

Sunday Story…There is No Magic Pill. Or is there?

This is something I have said before…”There is no magic pill”. There is no one thing to take or do that will turn your life around, make things easier, or magically turn your body into the shape you desire. There is no eat this and you will find your perfect weight and never have to struggle with craving and eating the “wrong” stuff again. This is no one workout routine that get you the 20” biceps and 500 pound squat (if that is what you want!). But we all know that. And we all keep searching for “it”. Whatever “it” is? Honestly we have been searching for these things for millennia…the holy grail, the golden city of El Dorado, the fountain of youth, the formula to turn lead into gold, the pill that lets you eat anything you want and lose weight and enjoy perfect health, or the cure for everything that ails you. We haven’t found it yet and we never will.

Or maybe we already have it and we have been ignoring it all these years. Maybe it is too easy, too simple for us to really grasp what the answer is. Maybe we just don’t want to put the effort into making it work and maybe the magic pill isn’t really a pill at all.

This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc details a Doctor’s fight back from the edge of paralysis from a particularly insidious form of MS (multiple sclerosis). If you are not familiar with MS it is a disease where the myelin sheath that protects the nerves is attacked and breaks down. Over time this will result in impaired motor movement and eventually paralysis and death. It is slow, painful and incurable. Except for Dr. Terry Wahls. She has managed to fight back from near paralysis to almost full mobility. Her story is inspiring and remarkable.

Did she find a magic pill? An amazing cure from some previously unknown and exotic source? No and no. She tried every therapy available…physical, pharmaceutical, alternative and nothing had any lasting effect. Finally she did the research and figured out what her brain needed to be healthy and started giving it to it. It didn’t come in the form of a pill, a drug, or a shot.

Her cure: Food. Yes food. The same food that is available to all of us in this country every day. She started eating green stuff. Leafy greens to be more exact. She started eating more sulfur rich vegetables and more colored fruits and vegetable. She eats 9 cups of all that every day. That’s 3 large, heaping dinner plates full of mostly vegetable and fruits. She also eats several times a week grass fed meat, organ meat, and fish. She makes sure she gets plenty of minerals and vitamins from her food.

In 5 months she went from barely being able to walk with 2 canes to being able to make hospital rounds with no assistance! All from eating the right food. You have heard me go on and on and on about this…the “paleo” diet or the “caveman” diet, or the “hunter gatherer” diet…call it what you will…here is the bottom line…eat mostly plants (leafy green ones), add in some other vegetables that are available, a few fruits and berries, some healthy meats and your health will improve.

Lots of people say they don’t like the taste of _______(fill in the blank). They seem to find it a source of pride to not eat any vegetables. If you were faced with the choice of wheel chair for the rest of your life or you had to eat liver and onions twice a week what would you choose? And if you say the wheel chair stop reading now, don’t watch the video, and enjoy your life. There are lots of things that cause you discomfort including learning to like foods you didn’t previously enjoy. That discomfort is nothing compared to the discomfort of poor health. You see, poor health never leaves you. The pain of diabetes never goes away. The awareness of not being able to walk is always there. But if you could turn your poor health around just by eating natural foods…wouldn’t you?

So why aren’t you? I mean what do we have to do to get you off the CRAP (Calorie Rich And Pathetic) you are eating and feeding your children too? You don’t offer your children cigarettes and alcohol do you? Yet you feed them and yourself sugar (as addictive as heroin and cocaine, the main cause of diabetes and obesity, and shown to cause many forms of cancer), artificial sweeteners (cancer, diabetes, obesity), grains (a major source of food allergies, auto immune disorders, diabetes, and obesity), dairy (the 2nd leading source of food allergies, and digestive difficulties) with no compunction.

The evidence is mounting. Clear and present danger is in front of you. You can continue running toward the cliff with all the rest of the lemmings destined to fall into the sea of poor health, chronic disease, diabetes, obesity, dementia, and premature death and a quality of life plagued by Doctors, Hospitals, Pharmacies, and Drugs. Or you can make a different choice. You can choose vital health, nourishing food, a brain that is elastic and healthy until the day you die (naturally), children whose moods are more even, who learn better, and are happier.

The choice is yours. The magic pill is there…in the food you eat. So is the other pill by the way…the one that is going to make you sick and cause you pain and misery…it’s in the food as well.
You are already choosing one or the other…which is it?

Here is the link to Dr. Wahls’ story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc
And here is a link to the article I got her story from: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-you-should-eat-leafy-greens/#axzz1mUXsu6Ye

When I want a treat I eat “Paleo Candy” from my recipe stash (thanks Scott D.!)
Throw about 1 cup of cashews in the processor. Chop to desired size. Put in a different bowl.
Put about 1# of dates in the processor with about ½ cup of almond butter and let the processor mix all that up into a mushy paste.
Put all that in the bowl with the cashews and combine together using your hands.
Spread it over a ¼ sheet cookie pan covered with saran wrap and flatten out. Cover with saran wrap and refrigerate for an hour or two. Cut into squares.
Nom Nom…Don’t eat too many…lots of calories here.

Namaste
John
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