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Health starts at home

Published online on Sunday, Nov. 08, 2009

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With all the recent concern about national health care, I am left feeling a bit soured by it all, especially when I heard that we want what we rightly deserve.

I have to wonder when we will start to realize that health care starts at home. We could eliminate more than 95% of our health issues by eating right.

It seems simple to me. If you drink to excess or smoke, you are going to have health problems in time. The same can be said for the consumption of animal products, if you consume more than three ounces per day on the average, given your diet is good in the first place.

We just consume too many animal products and highly processed foods and oils, along with food chemicals and drink chlorinated water. This is the major cause of degenerative diseases like obesity, cancer, heart attacks, etc.

In reality, who gets rich off of you if you do not eat right? People’s lack of knowledge and uncontrolled appetites makes the present refined food and medical industries quite rich.

Knowledge is the power to free oneself from the sinful greed and control of others.

Mary Ann Gamegan-Richardson

Clovis



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