LEARNING TO EAT CORRECTLY

“Let food be your medicine and your medicine be food.” Hippocrates

Let’s follow his advice and learn to eat correctly.

Had we followed his advice from the beginning we wouldn’t need to retrain our taste buds: when they (taste buds) have not been given the chance to cultivate the taste for salt and sugar the taste buds adjust and appreciate the taste of what is natural. If only we had extended this concept to foods made with white flour – our taste buds would not crave white bread, bagels, pasta, rolls and the like.

At least we can help our little ones to learn how to eat properly from the start. Their lives will be enhanced. They will be healthier and use food for what it is intended for, to provide energy to live.

Children should not be taught to live to eat but to eat to live. They will be able to enjoy the physical side of life by being able to participate in sports, dance, etc. and not being always on the side lines because their bodies cannot “do.” Let us teach our children to participate in life by enjoying the feeling of their bodies by enjoying physical activities and to be able to continue this physical living well into adulthood, let say 110 years old!

Do not cultivate tastes (develop cravings) for things that do not provide “what the body” needs.

Eating correctly is also beneficial to one’s emotional life.

Our goals in life regarding our families and friends never change but only get better with the new information and ideas that are given to us. We have a huge amount of scientific and emotional growth data available to us, And all of it hinges on each other.

Let us lead marvelously healthy lives by feeding our bodies as well as the soul. When a health body has a health mind, things do not get better than this.

Let us all contribute to a marvelously happy life for all.