Simple Principles for weight control and health work together. Hippocrates discovered the truth in his ancient times, a reflection of good practices discovered in the Bible. The Greek says, “Let food be thy medicine.” We believe that medical practitioners and physicians provide a necessary function in diagnosing difficulties and disease. We need to know what we’re fighting when things do not go well. However, we also believe that our bodies contain all the requirements for healing through our immune system. Medicines do not heal. At their best they interrupt negative conditions to allow the immune system to do its job. At their worst, medicines produce toxic reactions worse than the disease they’re intended to fight.
In our graying society, just listen to the conversations. Within minutes you will be overhearing descriptions of the latest visit to the Emergency Room, diagnostic results that produce more fear than hope, and decidedly difficult days because of one infirmity or another. Even in the younger generations people speak of the aches, pains, and displeasures of indigestion, physical exertion, or even hangovers. Our youngsters have been tagged as an obese generation susceptible to diabetes, heart trouble, and cancers of various types. Listen closely and you will hear a sick society.
Simple Principles for Weight Control and Health Come from Reading and Research
Simple Principles for weight control and health come from years of study that uphold the ideas of health and healing as a natural process. We encourage you to have medical attention to determine what your body needs, and then discover the best foods and practices that will be your medicine. And, for those who currently enjoy full health, we hope you make the determinations of the habits that will keep you healthy and thriving.
Fortunately, we have much information available on the topics of health and healing. Unfortunately, much of the information serves only to lead us to buy a particular product to overcome a perceived symptom, like headaches, non-digestion, allergies, and what is believed to be normal aging. Add in the fad diets, weight loss potions and pills, and fat-reducing paraphernalia and you have an avalanche of commercial misinformation. All of it adds up to a confusing mix of ineffective medical attention and self-doctoring. There is a better way.
Come back to the natural way. “Let food be thy medicine.” Natural foods, available in most food stores now, give us the fundamental nutrition we need to promote healing and full health. Once you leave the produce department of your grocery store, you put your health back in jeopardy. Manufacturing natural foods for a plastic or cardboard package with extended shelf life removes almost all the benefit you would get from the veggie, fruit, grain, or seed in its natural state. But, we like to keep things simple as we provide health and life coaching to people who want to improve their health and outlook.
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We enjoy posting the tidbits and ideas of “Simple principles for #weight control & #health” every day. It gives us a way to encapsulate some of the best tips we run across in reading, browsing for webinars, and from conversations on the telephone, Twitter, and Facebook. Thanks for your feedback to the tips too. We hear from many of you regularly and some occasionally. The interchange is fun and that’s how we learn. Here’s an example:
We posted “Simple principles for #weight control & #health 181: Basic gluten-free grains include buckwheat, millet, quinoa, sorghum, & teff .” Some of us are more gluten sensitive than others, but none of us tolerates gluten as well as we think. By the time the white flours are processed for breads and desserts, the beneficial substances have mostly been removed and the gluten has no buffers to make digestion easier. So, when it’s possible, we all need to use natural grains.
One friend responded by saying, “What are those? I’ve never heard of those. Where do we get them? Do you have recipes for them?” The answers are: they’re natural grains readily available in many grocery stores, near the processed flours and sugars, but they’re natural; and, yes we have recipes that incorporate them into delicious dishes.
Another response came from our friend Michelle who trains hard as an active athlete. She shares in a quick post: ” I recently found the most wonderful veggie burgers: a company called Hillary’s and containing adzuki beans, quinoa, millet, etc. just wonderful. and in lots of flavors.” Thanks for the feedback. We usually try to make our own from scratch, but these burgers may be worth a try. Today’s tweet is “Simple principles for #weight control & #health 183: Nuts & seeds have high fat content, but offer good brain food benefits. Go easy on ‘em.”
We hope the daily tips, “Simple principles for #weight control & #health,” tweeted and posted on Facebook serve you as a reminder and motivator. We love your feedback, so bring it on. Your comments help us learn, and if you have questions, that’s better for both of us as we dig in to find answers. Each of us is a unique creation and our reactions, even to natural substances, may vary, but we do believe when we keep it natural, the body will give us responses that make sense.
A few people say we should compile these “Simple principles for #weight control & #health” in a book. What do you think?