My Beginning

Ok! So I've finally found something to write about. Yep finally....ta da... Health! Yep that's right. So Lon, Jon, and Brenden can officially roll their eyes, hit the back button, and just go eat worms. To you Shauna I raise my glass since your probably the only person that will even check this anymore because I haven't written in SOO long!

Alright it all began one day when Shaunalee told me to look up this site called Underground Wellness.com. At first I wanted to roll my eyes thinking this was a ridiculous activist talking trying to sell me something but I was to impressed by the knowledge of Sean Croxton, not only did he seem like he knew what he was taking about he could site everything he quoted! All his facts had books behind them, web addresses, or people that you could easily Google! Try to ask that of a fad dieter. How many people can back themselves up with them 70 years of research with more than 7 doctors to support them.

Well to sum up the main motto of this site is " FIND THE ROOT CAUSE". Yep that's right everything that's ailing us today is the symptom of some malfunction in the body. You may all be saying "du!". But try to tell that to some one on Zoloft or Prilosec! Doctors these days are simply treating the symptoms alone and later finding out at age 45 that their patients have a disease or cancer!

Isn't it strange that obesity has almost doubled between 1980 and 2006! (Check this at http://www.infoplease.com/us/statistics/overweight-americans.html ) On top of that Why do we have such a need for all the vitamins and medications! I mean didn't God put those here readily available for us to get though the goodness of his own creations? Or do we have to depend on all of these company's to breakdown and separate minerals and vitamins because our bodies that God gave us can't break them down well enough? Its a whole market of money.

Now in position of the opposing, vitamins do have their place, for those people who are deficient in nutrients due to a lack in whole foods or for healing the body. In all Science has brought us a long way we now know the components of our food and how our body utilizes amino acids, proteins, fiber, carbohydrates, sugars, vitamins, and minerals.

My only question is this: Shouldn't our food be full of these already? It's obvious that these vitamins are now essential to us now because of all the refining processes our food must go through in order to be preservable, or to taste better, or to look better. But look at the effects of these "refining processes" on the people you pass in the streets, or at the mall, or in your home or even on yourself! Stored fat is not healthy!

So how did I get started on all of this? Well firstly I've been trying to get off sugar for a long time. Mind you it hasn't been easy. It wasn't like I woke up one day and said, "I'm never eating sugar again!" On the contrary. I would try for a day then mess up. Then I would try to get someone to do a bet with me to see who could go the longest. And when one of us would give in we both gave in. Then it went to Goals of If i can go one week without sugar then on Sunday I can have something. So me and my roommate would plan something packed with sugar for our reward on Sundays. Only to wake up Monday morning with a hangover! And that's when it started to hit me! I'd get a huge headache the next morning because of sugar! I started looking at all the ingredients in the food I was eating. To my surprise almost 80% of them had some type of sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

Does anyone realize that the food companies realize we are addicted to sugar! That's why it is in so much of our food! Americans are addicted to sugar! Get this, University of Iowa "Sugar addiction can lead to obesity, dental problems and malnutrition; after illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol, sugar is the most damaging addictive substance consumed." To find out more about what it does visit: (http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/naturespharmacy/sugar/sugar.html)

So now when i See sugar its really not a temptation for me. I know what it does to my system. It's addictive, It gives me headaches if i don't have it, It gives me a high...It's a Drug and it's against my religion!

Try it! I dare you...all you have to fear is the loss of mood swings, unhealthy food cravings, better sleep, better digestion, better health.