You are what you eat!

b) Eat well
Considering all the cells in your body, including your brain cells renew themselves every 6 to 12 months and some, like your skin cells renew themselves every month, your body must have healthy food to enable these repairs and what we know about food is that it is as powerful as any medicine that science can design. Yet we insist on feeding our bodies with rubbish – we are the fast food generation!

But think about it if you were a car and you put in dirty fuel what would happen well you would get a cough and a splutter and eventually a big bang. Well your body is no different you will get the cough and the splutter and eventually the big bang when they close the coffin lid! It is exactly the same except you are a lot more valuable than a car.

I was reading an article a few weeks ago that valued your body at 38 million dollars – it was taken from insurance and medical sources. It is a staggering amount well it is time we started treating our bodies as if we truly believe that it is worth that much!

Just imagine if you owned a horse worth that amount – would you let it smoke, stay up late, drink alcohol, take drugs, not exercise and sit watching telly all day? In an answer no you wouldn’t; you would make sure it had the best of everything the best organic food; it would have the best care, the best of everything. We are living an incongruent life folks!

Just look how we are raising our children, is it any wonder that the majority of children have had at least 5 courses of antibiotics by the time they are 5? Childhood obesity is reaching endemic proportions along with all the health risks that it brings!

So what can you do to eat more healthily? Well firstly keep it simple and secondly add to your diet first before taking things away. Quite simply diets do not work – 90% of people who go on weight loss programmes have regained their original weight plus an extra 2 pounds within 2 years!

You eat things for a reason, so for example if you love chocolate you are eating it because it causes a particular reaction in your body. May be you eat it when you are stressed. Well if you just stop eating it the next time you get stressed the craving will return! And that is why diets do not work.

It is against human nature to seek pain or avoid pleasure!

Instead you must add things to your diet until you no longer need the other stuff. So to eat healthier you simply need to add 1) more fresh fruit, 2) more fresh vegetables preferably home grown or organic, 3) drink more water and 4) take a fish oil supplement because our diets lack certain vital essential fatty acids and 5) eat organic meat! And that is that! Not a big ask but I can guarantee you it will make a difference. So if you simply start eating one piece of fruit a day, you will move towards better health.