Eat to Live..The Add on

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Peace,
I have always been taught that each moment is a teachable moment.

I didn’t realize that my post on ‘Mo’nique would get so many responses both public AND private. It was brought to my attention that it was even the subject of a thread over at okayplayer. So I will ‘seize’ the moment and add on to my initial post.

I am always amazed on how many people will ignore the point that I am focusing on and bring in issues that I did not mention. Also issues that aren’t relevant or really related to the points that I am making. I want to mention this testimony before I drop some more bullet points.

My uncle John returned to the essence in the Spring. He was the youngest of my father’s brothers. My father is 84 and I still have to hide the snow shovel and lawn mower from him because he is that active. My uncle john was chronically obese and suffered from diabetes. He did not eat to live. Before he returned he had to have his legs amputated and his quality of life was shot. Obesity is a HEALTH issue.

-Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Yet there are areas where opinion doesn’t belong and isn’t relevant. This is one of them. You can have an ‘opinion’ that fire won’t burn your hand and tell people that yet that doesn’t change the FACT that it does. You either a) knew the truth and decided to LIE (“10%er”) or b) didn’t know the truth because you were ignorant of it (“85%er”). The effect that junk, fatty, fast, salty, etc..’food’ has on the body is not an OPINION. It is a researchable, observable FACT. The effect that said foods is having on our community is not an OPINION, it is a matter of public record.

-My post wasn’t an attack or even a discussion on self esteem. Self esteem and HEALTH are two different issues. Self esteem is mental perception. Health is one’s physical foundation. People ‘enhanced’ their self esteem during the 30’s-80’s by smoking cigarettes. They thought it made them appear sophisticated, glamorous, and ‘grown’. Now in these years we know the health risk of smoking (shout out to Peter Jennings) with voice boxes being removed, lung cancer and other complications.

-Did anyone else who watched the show notice that they were advertising DIET PILLS during some of the commercials?!!!

-There is a different between obesity, full figured, fat, etc. All of those types were represented on the show. Please don’t think that they are all the same There are actual MEDICAL definitions for obesity, being over weight, etc. One of the problems that I had with the show was that it did lump them all into the same category. They aren’t and some people are at a greater risk then others.

-No I ain’t an advocate of south beach diets, atkin diets, anorexia, nor bulimia.

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Right Foods Pt II

Right Foods Pt I