It is tempting in our time of statistics and trends and tendencies constantly quoted to lament the Standard American Diet of meats and cheeses and food-like products; it is more tempting to engage in such lamentation while not altering one's own life, eating less flesh or more leafy green vegetables, getting more exercise, dining while seated, and chewing one's food into liquid. Choosing to practice proper nutrition has far-reaching consequences, among them a decreased risk of sickness, greater vitality, beneficial weight loss, a hardy disposition, sound bones, firm tissues, and freedom from toxicity. The first step toward healthful eating is to use products organically grown – they tend to contain greater levels of trace minerals and vitamins that our bodies need than their chemically compromised cousins that grow up being sprayed with poisons in artificially fertilized soils. In keeping with Michael Pollan's argument, one does well to eat real food, avoiding anything refined, processed, or enriched (which rules out most items but fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, and greens). A healthy life you too can choose, there's good to gain and bad to lose. Mahalo.
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