Friday, August 17, 2012

A few thoughts about food and it's relationship to health that have really been on my mind:

1. What you eat today has to: make your heart beat tomorrow, create new blood, renew your bone marrow, furl your brain, ease your mind, make your lungs work, support your immune system, heal your skin, keep your digestive system working smoothly, lubricate your joints, repair and build your muscles....What will you eat to do all that?

2. “Food is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and exercise is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
-Bill Phillips

3. "What would happen if everybody ate lots and lots of fresh organic food that was minimally processed?
I think we would have an epidemic of health. I think the stock market would tremble. The drug industry is a half trillion dollar a year, worldwide conglomerate; almost three hundred billion dollars just in North America. This is really really big business. What would happen if everybody were well?
There’s no money in health. You see, good health makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars"

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D. from Food Matters