Switching from junk food to an all natural and organic diet was not something that happened overnight. It was definitely something that happened gradually.
The change began with a vegetarian diet that I started in order to shed my winter weight before my 23rd birthday in the spring. It was only supposed to be for a few months, but on my birthday I made a discovery that would change the way I look at food forever.
My birthday party was full of barbecue, ribs, burgers, and hot dogs. I had been looking forward to sinking my teeth into some juicy, red meat the entire time I was going without, but as I sunk my teeth into that first, long anticipated, juicy, bite, I quickly realized that it was not good as I remembered. Not only was the meat not as tasty as I had hoped, but almost instantly I felt sluggish, and weighed down. I never felt that after eating fruits and veggies. So went back onto the the all vegetarian diet and continued on it for one more year.
Going vegetarian forced me to rethink my eating habits. There were less choices at first. It was no longer easy to hit up the fast food drive through and get a deep fried chicken sandwich on the way to work.
In no time I stopped going to drive troughs all together. Eventually I decided to add meat back into my diet, on occasion, in small servings. I also cut back largely on the amount of dairy products I was consuming.
You know how on your birthday, people like to ask you, "Do you feel any older?" My twenty fifth birthday, or is my grandmother put it, "turning a quarter of a century old," was the first birthday in my life where I actually felt like the most genuine response to that question was actually one hundred percent, "Yes."
Maybe, it was the realization that I was only five years shy of thirty, realizing it seemed that only yesterday that I had turned twenty. Where did I hope to be by the time I was thirty? Maybe I felt as if I hadn't accomplished enough in most recent years, or that I had stopped moving forward. Life is all about progression, and evolution. Perhaps I was behind?
This past year I have found many things, and made many changes. I set out on a quest for knowledge, driven by the desire for Sauca (purity) I focused my energy on basic yoga teachings, fitness, and nutrition. I scooped up every fitness magazine I could get my hands on, read online forums, and began watching every food documentary that I could find on Netflix.
The first documentary to really shake my perception was Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. I felt like I had stumbled upon a gold mine of information. It all should have been so simple, but its easy to miss out on the way we are supposed to eat. Many of us are so sick, and we don't even realize that all we have to do is fix our diets, and we can become healthy again.
I started to really think about over the counter vitamins. Most grocery stores have an entire isle dedicated to nutrition supplements these days, it didn't seem natural. Why so many pills? There was a time that people lived long and healthy lives, without over the counter help. Then the answer slapped me in the face. We, as modern people of the world, do not know how to eat properly. If somebody is eating right they should have no need to buy vitamins by the truckload at the super market
As I began to study the nutrients in specific foods, so that I could better stock my kitchen, I came across, yet another amazing documentary, Food Matters. Hippocrates, the founder of modern medicine, said "Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food." I believe he would be appalled if he were here to see the way we utilize health care today.
Many of the documentaries, and sites refrence Dr Max Gerson, who was able to cure almost every type of cancer, as well as many other chronic ailments and deseases in the 1940's using an organic, unprocessed diet.He didn't use drugs, or radiation. He cured people WITH FOOD.
It is illegal to treat cancer in The United States using the Gerson Therapy, but his daughter, Charlotte Gerson, is still spreading the good word, and saving lives at the Gerson Health Center in Tijuana Mexico.
Dr Gerson died in 1959, after completing his master work, A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 cases, for the 2nd time. (The first time he completed the book, it mysteriously vanished.)
Click this link to watch The Gerson Miracle Documentary and find out more about Gerson's natural Miracle therapy.
It is illegal to treat cancer in The United States using the Gerson Therapy, but his daughter, Charlotte Gerson, is still spreading the good word, and saving lives at the Gerson Health Center in Tijuana Mexico.
Dr Gerson died in 1959, after completing his master work, A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 cases, for the 2nd time. (The first time he completed the book, it mysteriously vanished.)
Click this link to watch The Gerson Miracle Documentary and find out more about Gerson's natural Miracle therapy.
With all my new found information, its hard to imagine going back to eating chemically engineered, gmo, super processed, Frankenstein foods. WOULD YOU EAT POISON JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY TOLD YOU IT WAS SAFE? Do you?
I cant even rationalize paying for empty foods, that contain little to no nutrition. When did people forget, that we eat to nourish our bodies, not just fill our bellies?
I hope to ease myself into a mostly raw vegetarian diet in the next few months, because the more I learn, the more I feel that it is the healthiest path, and if I really want my body to be a temple, then I should start to really treat it as one.
Sauca - keeping the temple clean. Is your body your temple?
