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Your Health Responsibily & Rising Medical Costs $

Your food choices affect more than just you. Health insurance rates are rising due in large part to the obesity epidemic and degenerative diseases needing medical attention, diseases/conditions that can be prevent SOLELY by good nutrition - REAL FOOD. I pay $200 a month for healthy insurance I don’t use. There are many people just like me doing them same. It’s everyone’s responsibly to take care of themselves - if not for yourself for the future of our nation. On the whole we are sick, uneducated about health and dying. It’s up to you to learn about real nutrition and take the best care of yourself so we can fix this mess.

Say it with me: Health is a privilege not a right.

It’s simple (notice I said “simple” not “easy” – there is a difference): Don’t eat so much sugar (yes fruit and grains are basically sugar). Eat meats, poultry, fish, veggies and good fats! Avoid grains, dairy, legumes, just EAT REAL FOOD, MOVE your body and lift heavy stuff sometimes. I’m sure I’ll get some haters from this post, but I’m feeling more passionate about this than usual this morning upon receiving another letter from my health insurance about my rising insurance rate AND a bill from my doctor for all the PREVENTATIVE care my insurance does NOT cover.

Yes I realize that this is in part due to our health care structure… but one of the main reasons medical rates are so high is the huge amount of money that is spent on care for people that have not bothered to care for themselves throughout their lives. It even says this in my letter from Anthem Blue Cross, “Below are several reasons contributing to the rising cost of health care… Lifestyles such as physical inactivity and increases in obesity.” Thanks for pointing that out Blue Cross and then charging me to get a basic blood panel.

Where has our survival instinct gone?! As a nation do we really care more about drinking soda than we do about playing with our grand-kids at 80? Ask yourself what’s more important spending $50 more a week on groceries so that you can eat grass-fed meat and fresh vegetables that will allow you to live a long comfortable life filled with great energy, good moods and general well-being or spending $50 a week on a bar tab? Most people choose the latter. Or how about spending $200 a month on a quality gym OR $200 a month leasing a new car? Which will give you the more long term satisfaction? Moving your body in the way it was designed to move or looking cool driving your new shiny wheels?

This is not a sales pitch for my services. I don’t care if you do this for yourself at the gym down the street from mine – this is a cry for help. Everyone needs to focus on what’s truly important. We are a country obsessed with instant gratification. “Hungry? Why wait?” says Snickers. In 1993 Pepsi told us to “Be Young, Have Fun, Drink Pepsi.” Even, Nike says, “Just do it.” We want to feel good now. There is nothing wrong with the instinct to feel good, but somewhere along the way we got our signals and timing mixed up.

What really feels good is being healthy and strong. Binging on ice cream and sitting on your butt in front of the TV or at the bar night after night does not feel good. Trust me I’ve done both and I can tell you that being healthy feels a million times better. Anyone that says different is in denial.

The rough trade comes in when we have to accept that what makes us healthy and strong requires a bit of sacrifice and hard work, especially when temptation is just a 5 minute drive to the 7-11. I never claim that fitness and health is easy. I tell all my clients health is not convenient, nor will they get drastic results immediately. They will also get no results if they don’t change the way they eat, think and move – but if they are committed to positive change they will look and FEEL amazing.

So what’s the trick? How do we get from lazy to motivated when it comes to our health? I think the answer is simple (simple not easy remember).

The answer is to enjoy the work and enjoy in the results even more.

I would say enjoy the journey, but that sounds super cheesy and new-agey, and really what gets you results is hard work and dedication not some mythical journey. Try something that requires effort every day and see how good it feels. Remember that feeling and keep repeating the good habit that lead to it and then change something else for the better. For example: stop drinking soda, after the withdrawals notice you feel better, do not drink soda anymore. Then start going for a walk outside at lunch. Notice that you feel more energized and happy the rest of the day, and then keep walking at lunch. Keep adding more good things to your life, keep trying new healthy things, keep learning and searching and above all NEVER give up. Sorry to end on a downer, but if you give up you end up sick with diabetes, heart disease or some other debilitating condition… never getting to play with your grandchildren. Take a moment right now to focus on what’s really MORE important in the long run.

27 April 2011 ·