Living On Purpose

I had the opportunity to see the documenary, “Processed People.” The message is simple: to have good health, eat food, not food-like things, and exercise.” And oh, how hard that advice is to follow in today’s society!

Just look at the line-up of DOCTORS who were interviewed for this film! Processed People: Experts

The obesity specialist doctor has observed that when people are put into a controlled environment, namely his clinic, and they eat a healthy diet and exercise every day, then health problems disappear. Cholesterol drops. Blood triglyceride levels drop. Diabetes goes away. Cardiovascular health returns. How completely simple: eat a plant-based diet and exercise to be healthy. Yet it’s difficult to carry out!

Experts in the film also noted that every system in the body is improved by a proper diet, including one’s MENTAL HEALTH. Depression is often cleared up when processed foods are removed from the diet.

A processed food is one that has had all the natural nutrients stripped out of it, and then synthetic vitamins are added back in. That would be anything bleached, like white flour and white sugar. And that would be anything pasteurized, like commercial milk. What does that leave us with? What can we eat now that 90% of our daily intake is now no better than poison?

That leaves whole foods. Yes, to reduce your depression, or even to make it disappear, you will help your therapist greatly if you just eat whole foods. Then you will be thinking clearly, free of false moods brought on by nutritional imbalances and deficiencies, so that your therapist can help you make real progress! I have a deep feeling that just like judges who say, “I hope to never see you in my court again!” therapists also will be happy to help you through your problem with a send-off like this, “I hope you don’t have to come back! Have good health!” (Although I can’t vouch for all therapists. I would hope they got into the profession to really HELP people move through problems)

Here is a quote from Processed People that I thought was eye-opening:

You either spend time exercising and eating right, or you spend time in the health care system trying to treat the problems that resulted from you NOT spending the time to exercise and eat right.

To your strong will power!

p.s. I almost forgot to talk about the reason I named this post “trends in medical care.” The movie made a point that our health care system has failed us.  It is now nothing more than a disease care service. It does nothing to educate the public how to eat right and exercise. It promotes taking pharmaceuticals to cure all ails, but doing that is simply treating the symptom and not going to the root of the issue and really curing the illness. Doctors, especially the big disease specialists, are getting rich off of doing procedures, not from giving goodwill classes to educate their patients how to live healthy. It is up to each individual to take charge of his/her health and health issues through research and knowledge.

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