Food has become a controversial subject. We are bombarded
daily with severely mixed messages about how to eat it, treat it and talk about
it. It causes disagreements as heated as politics and no one ever agrees
completely on how to consume it, prepare it or advocate it.
We need food to sustain us but are told not to covet it. We indulge
in the beauty of creating marvelous meals, only to plop them on a scale to be
scrutinized. Food is associated with eating disorders, obesity and allergies.
It’s bad, it’s good, it’s what’s for dinner, it’s cutting out dinner and it’s exhausting
if you let it be, but it is always a necessity. We must eat to continue to be
viable human beings and so goes the perpetual battle of what to eat, how to eat
it and what is the best health choice for our beautiful bodies.
I certainly don’t profess to have the bright and shiny
answer, but I have walked this earth for quite a few years and have tried every
eating philosophy around. I know that anyone who says their ‘diet’, or ‘program’
or juice or powder or pill is the only way you will ever be healthy, fit and
happy is selling you a bill of goods.
Some are good, some are not so good and some are awful and dangerous,
but not a single one of them works for everyone. That is simply impossible. Yes,
we are all human, but our bodies do not all work the same. What works for one
person could be lethal to another. Listen to your body, it will send
you wonderful messages when it’s happy and unpleasant ones when it’s not.
Eat healthy food, practice portion control, cut out
processed foods and sugar (there are great substitutes) and listen to what your
body tells you. If you feel good, you look good, and if you look good, you feel
good.
